Archive for January, 2010
Free bus from Milwaukee to Madison to testify on Clean Energy Jobs bill, Feb. 2
A legislative alert and free offer from the Sierra Club and Clean Wisconsin: WISCONSIN NEEDS THE CLEAN ENERGY JOBS BILL THIS SESSION! You are invited to join your neighbors who intend to “pack the house” at the state Capitol as the Legislature holds public hearings on the Wisconsin Clean Energy Jobs Act (AB 649/SB 450). [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )RENEW: Hearing trivialized Advanced Renewable Tariffs
From a letter from RENEW Wisconsin to Senators Jeff Plale and Mark Miller, co-chairs of the Select Senate Committee on Clean Energy, who held a hearing on the Clean Energy Jobs Act bill on January 27: Dear Senators Miller and Plale: Thank you for holding a hearing yesterday of the Select Committee on Clean Energy [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Business leaders, labor, utilities, farmers, and conservationists hail Clean Energy Jobs Act bill
From a news release issued by Clean Wisconsin: MADISON – Prominent business leaders, labor representatives, farmers, health advocates, faith leaders, energy providers, and environmentalists were among residents from across the state who gathered at a public hearing held in the State Capitol today to ask their elected leaders to support and strengthen the Clean Energy [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Business leaders demonstrate support for Clean Energy Jobs act, denounce WMC ads
From a news release from Advocates for Creating Renewable Energy, a coalition which includes RENEW Wisconsin: Madison, Wis. – One day before the State Senate is scheduled to hold public hearings on the Clean Energy Jobs Act, Wisconsin business leaders are criticizing attack ads run by Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce and demonstrating their support for [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )U.S. wind industry breaks installation records with 10,000 MW
From a news release issued by the American Wind Energy Association: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. wind industry broke all previous records by installing nearly 10,000 megawatts (MW) of new generating capacity in 2009 (enough to serve over 2.4 million homes), but still lags in manufacturing, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) said today in [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Glacier Hills order includes protections for residents
The Public Service Commission of Wisconsin issued its final order on construction of We Energies’ Glacier Hills Wind Park. The order included, among others, several provisions to allow residences to seek remedies should they feel bothered by turbines in the project (numbering follows the numbering in the written PSC order, pages 48-54): 10. WEPCO shall [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Making a connection: Wind transmission grid weakens west of Wisconsin
From an article by Melissa Rigney Baxter in The Daily Reporter: The multimillion-dollar construction projects to get the blades spinning won’t mean much if there’s no way to transmit wind farm electricity. So far in Wisconsin, transmission has been less of a problem than local approvals and harnessing the wind, but that could change as [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )RENEW denounces WMC’s “fact-free flip-flop” in radio ad on energy bill
IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 21, 2010 MORE INFORMATION Michael Vickerman RENEW Wisconsin 608.255.4044 mvickerman@renewwisconsin.org RENEW denounces WMC’s “fact-free flip-flop” in radio ad on energy bill RENEW Wisconsin’s Executive Director Michael Vickerman assailed the credibility of a new radio ad launched by Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce (WMC) that characterizes the Clean Energy Jobs Act bill as an [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Dueling radio ads: Potawatomi vs. WMC
An email circulated by Amber Meyer Smith, Program Director, Clean Wisconsin: The Forest County Potawatomi and Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce (WMC) [the statewide chamber of commerce] have new radio ads running on opposite sides of proposed [Clean Energy Jobs Act]. In WMC’s spot, two women discuss the bill, mocking the idea that Gov. Jim Doyle [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Wisconsin pays more if the state fails to act
From an editorial in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: The Clean Energy Jobs Act will require trade-offs, but we’re confident that the cost of the measure will be far less than if we stand pat. A bill just introduced in the state Legislature holds the promise of growing new technologies, new jobs and energy independence in [...]
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