All Entries Tagged With: "Energy Resources"
Germany’s High Solar Subsidies Under Fire
EDGAR L. GÄRTNER (Frankfurt) Although the document released on Saturday, October 24th doesn’t mention it, the new German government coalition between Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats and Guido Westerwelle’s Liberals will be obliged to sooner or later reign in Germany’s high subsidies for photovoltaic power. One of the main causes of high German power prices is [...]
All Pain No Gain
The reality behind American Cap and Trade PAUL DRIESSEN (Washington) What is Cap and Trade? To address concerns that global warming threatens our planet, activists and politicians are pushing for a “cap-and-trade” program that would limit and tax carbon dioxide released by power plants, cars, factories and other facilities. It is a very complicated regulatory [...]
Wind Farms Cause Bird Populations to Decline by Half
The Daily Telegraph reports windfarms, “can reduce bird numbers by up to half” citing a study by Britain’s Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). The idea of generating electricity from the wind always seems attractive at first glance. However, wind continues to generate only one percent of world power. Increasing that percentage requires [...]
CFACT's Presentation to the Paneuropa Youth Conference in Vienna
HOLGER J. THUSS (Jena) On February 6th an audience of 80 assembled in the Miller Aicholz Conference Center in Vienna, Austria, to discuss the upcoming European Elections, and to listen to various prominent speakers addressing this year’s key event of EU politics. Most of the attendees so called PanAlp09 conference were students and young academics [...]
Germany Cancels Biofuel Plans
Fears repercussions from angry motorists HOLGER J. THUSS (Jena) “ production may go down as one of the biggest blunders in history. An unholy alliance of environmentalists, agribusiness, biofuel corporations and politicians has been touting ethanol as the cure to all our environmental ills, when in fact it may be doing more harm than good. [...]
CFACT Advisor Dr. Hans Penner Challenges Bad Boll Evangelical Academy’s “Mistakes in Logic”
Dear Mr. Kraus, The “Appeal of the Climate Alliance,” drafted by the Evangelical Academy of Bad Boll, contains mistakes in logic that cannot remain unchallenged.
Brussels: EPP Energy Seminar Shows Divide Between Old Europe & New
Majority of participants disagree with panelists The timing was perfect. With much of Europe in the middle of a heated public debate regarding energy security and global warming, the center-right European People’s Party (EPP) — Europe’s largest alliance of political parties — together with the think tank European Ideas Network (EIN), jointly organized an important, [...]
Rothbard and Rucker on Environment, Development and Africa in "European View"
In their article, David Rothbard and Craig Rucker urge EU policy makers to ensure that their new policies towards Africa will be beneficial in particular to African nations that were once European colonies. “The answer to Africa’s needs, however, is not more handouts or even aid forgiveness, as was recommended at the June 2005 G8 [...]
