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Wind Energy Is Dying (And So Are Whales And Birds) · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  Welcome to the second hour of the radio program. Grant Allen running the show
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  as always, and we thank you so much for joining us renewable alternative forms
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  of energy. Great idea, but we aren't even close. And Joe Biden
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  has I believe, intentionally put our country in a precarious spot. I think
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  we're compromised in our national security as a result. But when it comes to
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  just how you live your life, this idea of transitioning us and bullying us
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  into alternative forms of energy is just failing massively. And joining us on the
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  program is Craig Rucker. He's president of a group called Committee for a Constructive
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  Tomorrow. Craig, how are you. I'm doing great. Thanks for having
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  me on your program. My pleasure. First give us a snapshot of the
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  group, Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow. What's it all about. We are
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  a organization that's been around since nineteen eighty five. We work on energy and
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  environmental issues from a free market perspective or sound science. Free market perspective,
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  which puts us at odds with groups kind of a conservative green piece is what
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  we are. We work on the same types of issues, but really from
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  the ideologically opposite perspective. So we have a board of scientists and academics,
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  for example, that would question the climate science that we're all going to die
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  within five years. We also work very hard to actually protect animals, such
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  as in this issue which you're talking about today, we're working to try and
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  save the whales from Biden's renewable energy projects. So we're very concerned about the
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  whole issue of renewable energy because of the fact of what it's been doing to
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  eagles and to whales, and to a whole host of other species such as
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  desert tortoises, porpoises and the like. These things are really really bad for
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  the environment. Why is it that we're not I'm going to stay focused on
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  just that part of it for now, But why, Craig, are we
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  not hearing from PETA and some of the animal rights active activist groups out there,
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  you know, the National Audubon Society and the like. Where are they?
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  Well, unfortunately they're on the side of the Biden administration, at least
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  at the national level. The organizational level. There are a lot of grassroots
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  activists that work with us that are very opposed to what the national organizations are
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  doing. And I think extend from two things. Number One, a lot
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  of these groups actually are more afraid of climate change and really think that maybe
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  a few animals have to die in order to battle it. I hate to
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  put it so bluntly, but that's kind of the position they're taking. Secondly,
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  a lot of these renewable energy firms actually give money and generous sums of
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  money to the major environmental groups, is more or less a way to shut
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  them up. And so I think there's two things at play there, a
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  bigger concern about climate change than they are about saving the whales or saving eagles
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  and other species, and more concern you directed at climate change, which for
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  tom our position, I've been to about twenty five or the twenty eight major
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  UN summit's dating back to the nineties, and you know, I can tell
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  you on prediction after prediction on the climate science issue, all the things that
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  have been prognosticated about what they said would happen and we'd have the end experience
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  the end by now have not occurred. Now that's why they keep advising them
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  and pushing them out further and further, because they're going to be dead and
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  they won't have to be held accountable for their predictions. Craig, the piece
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  you wrote, I think it was in the Hill the offshore wind initiative.
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  We've got a break coming in just a second. First, a little snapshot
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  on what Biden was planning to do, and then on the other side of
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  the break, we'll talk about what's really happening. Sure, Biden that wants
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  to put in about thirty megawatts thirty sorry, three hundred thousand megawatts of offshore
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  wind by the year twenty thirty in an up and down the Eastern seaboard.
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  That would be about three thousand major wind turbines eight hundred and fifty feet tall
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  that would stretch from the Carolinas all the way up to New York City.
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  And that's what he's trying to put in. All right, we're going to
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  pick up right there, Craig, record with US Committee for a constructive tomorrow.
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  Folks off the offshore energy option, whether it's the solar cells, and
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  they're learning in California now they've got toxic waste that they're trying to figure out
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  what they're going to do with the ev bullying that's going on. It's all
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  pie in the sky nonsense. It's just not efficient. Energy yet and we'll
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  talk more with Craig about it. Eleven minutes past. The headline to his
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  piece is Biden's offshore wind initiative is set to join the Titanic dubious distinction.
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  That would be Craig Recker with us. Craig, Why, Well, I
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  think the reason is it's just not working. Wind energy doesn't really work anywhere
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  it's tried in the world at a massive scale. You look at countries that
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  have gone wind all wind. Denmark Germany are good examples of this. The
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  citizens of those countries are paid about thirty eight cents a killer what hour or
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  even higher in many cases. Why is that? And that's just because it's
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  inefficient. And put that in contrast, while they're paying about thirty eight cents
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  a killer what hour for their electricity, Americans are used to paying about twelve
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  cents, So you're going to see cost sore. Thesempanies that put them in
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  can only exist if they get massive subsidies, and they are in the United
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  States thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act. Biden has poured out at a lot
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  of the governors of the states in the Northeast, Lake Phill Murphy and even
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  despite that unless they get sweetheart deals, they can't do business. And since
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  Biden has announced that thirty thousand megawatt hours that they want to put in there
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  in the Northeast, what's wound up happening is company after company has gone bankrupt
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  or Steeds pulled out of ocean Wind one to two in New Jersey. You
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  have DP and equinor two big offshore wind companies just announcing they're canceling the Empire
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  two win project at New York City. So you have a lot of companies
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  just pulling out because they're not able to keep the costs in line and complete
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  the projects, and also a lot of citizen backlash because of their impacts on
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  whales. I was going to ask, let's connect them. I know from
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  land wind turbines, birds are decimated. Birds just literally just fly into these
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  things and get killed, eagles, protected species, and so forth. I'm
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  guessing that happens offshore as well. But now explain the whale connection. Well,
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  what happens is whales are navigated by sonar underneath the water, and they
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  since they've been starting the map the ocean floor to do these This has been
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  in the making since the Obama administration. They have to use sonar blasting,
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  which are blasting very loud volumes of sonar underneath the water to get an idea
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  of what it looks like on the ocean bottom. They've noticed a precipitous rise
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  in whale deaths, beachings that have gone up. They get chart these things
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  in some cases that it's up by three four hundred percent in some communities.
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  And they also have to do pile driving, which is a big clanging to
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  put in the platform these things. And we saw last year something like seventy
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  some whale beachings, which is only a fraction of those that actually die.
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  They figure for everyone that beaches, there's you know, several more that are
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  dead out in the ocean from that are floating around. So this is,
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  you know, much higher than normal, so you know what is causing that,
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  And many surmise the only thing that's really different in the region is all
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  the climbing and sonar blasting to put in these wind turbines. We know with
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  EVS Craig that there's a backlog now on dealership lots factories that people just are
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  starting to understand the detriment and the difficulties that come with buying an ev How
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  does the public know about this type of problem with the evs or now with
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  with the wind turbines in all these yea, these offshore wind projects, you'll
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  know it well. Unfortunately, you'll probably take note of it when it's almost
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  but it's too late, because once they hook it up is where you're going
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  to start seeing your own utility bills and everything skyrocket. It'll probably be a
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  mystery to people how that actually occurred. And it's because of the fact when
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  these things are not when the wind's not blowing, or the case of solar
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  or when the sun's not shining, all of a sudden, they have to
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  get back up power from someplace and that whole operation just winds up costing more
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  than if you just kept a regular gas fired plant or a nuclear plant just
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  operating. Twenty four to seven. Craig, I appreciate what you're doing.
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  Thanks for the intel. I'm sure we'll visit again sometime in the future.
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  Thank you. I appreciate craig record with us and again President Committee for a
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  constructive tomorrow. Yeah, people who are contractors on these projects, the people
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  that are supposed to do this are backing out because it's a losing proposition.
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  Alternative energy isn't there, It's not close to being there. Meanwhile, we
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  have cut our connection to coal and oil, and we are completely compromised as
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  a nation. Imagine paying three times what you pay for energy. That's where
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  we're going, sixteen past the hour,