Though Piece by Stephen Heins ["It's hard to win an argument with a smart person, but it's damn near impossible to win an argument with an ignorant person." Bill Murray Sorry to say, but Steve Hanley's opinion piece comes very close to displaying a total ignorance on the subject of Natural Gas and Fracking. One can't [...]
Thought piece by Stephen Heins [Where is Al Gore, who should respond to this story? Where is media coverage, including the environmental media, who also should respond to this ruling? This may be a classic example of climate change bias, especially given the coverage of the original media event. "Consensus" has no place in science, consensus only plays a [...]
Thought piece by Stephen Heins The most recent example of the manipulation of benefit/cost analysis by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an official finding by the EPA that “greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft cause or contribute to air pollution that may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health and welfare.” Credit: Twenty20 More regulatory [...]
3 August 2016 | By Steve Heins, The Word Merchant Many have probably heard a lot about Tesla lately, including the latest dust up with the “Autopilot” accidents. Beneath the headlines, the recently announced Tesla and Solar City merger will be an interesting experiment: Can massive government spending stimulate its own economy, without the usual worry [...]
Thought Piece by Stephen Heins [It is hard not coming to the conclusion that rhetoric and legal strategies are providing the context for any serious discussion. The RICO charges are just a manifestation. I have included links to recent stories detailing some of the planning for the "target Exxon" campaign at the bottom. Steve] Exxon Is Big Tobacco? [...]
Thought Piece by Stephen Heins First, with so many different phrases being bandied about by the energy and environmental communities like "sustainable energy," "clean energy," and "environmentally friendly energy," I want to provide a broader meaning to clean energy: "Clean Energy" is energy efficiency, new gas/natural gas pipelines, new state of the art transmission lines, geothermal, hydro, solar, wind, [...]
Originally posted in Energy Central February 11, 2016 | By Stephen Heins [Given the fact that I wrote this presentation 10 years ago for WREC Conference in Italy, I find little of it that I am embarrassed about. The names and the companies have changed, but many of the issues are still the same. Foremost, the continuing importance of [...]
Originally posted in Energy Central 9 February 2016 | By Steve Heins, The Word Merchant “The EPA and The Clean Power Plan: The Climate Science is Far from Settled,” (…and the EPA hasn’t yet addressed any of the important issues surrounding the energy, technology and telecommunication convergence.) While many of us actively try to follow the broad-based scientific discussions [...]
Originally posted in Fortnightly's SPARK 29 Sept 2015 | By Stephen Heins, The Word Merchant Let’s have full disclosure on Harvard’s new health study (And why it so closely defends the EPA that helped to fund it.) As the saying goes, you get what you pay for. That’s the lesson one might well draw from [...]
13 Jun 2015 | by Stephen Heins State utility commissioners in all 50 states are under a lot of stress. First, they must formulate and plan for the future of their states’ electrical grids and at the same time, keep their eyes on the developments in Washington and on the EPA whose Clean Power Plan (CPP) [...]
