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A new report delineates how Qatar, the largest foreign donor to U.S. universities, uses its enormous financial resources to influence what the report calls the “organizations, institutions and mechanisms that are being used by the Qatari paymaster to manipulate Western democracies.”
Published: Tuesday, December 26th, 2023 @ 4:56 pm
By: Daily Wire
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When government decides to buy something, cost increases are sure to follow. One reason is that people are generally less cost-conscious when they’re spending other people’s money. Government decision-makers are people spending revenues collected from other people.
Published: Wednesday, October 18th, 2023 @ 6:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Massive "city" of enormous wind turbines would severely conflict with military training and operations
Published: Saturday, June 3rd, 2023 @ 10:37 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new study from the U.S. Navy says expanding the Amazon Wind Farm site near Elizabeth City, as the operator planned to do, may cause interference with the Navy's radar-tracking facility in southern Virginia
Published: Monday, September 24th, 2018 @ 11:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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After operating a little more than a year, the Amazon Wind Farm, North Carolina's only large-scale wind energy project, continues to cause concerns
Published: Wednesday, April 4th, 2018 @ 2:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Dee Stewart was in Raleigh this spring to disclose poll results lauding renewable energy
Published: Friday, November 24th, 2017 @ 2:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Wind-energy developers routinely deceive the public, a longtime critic of the industry told Carolina Journal. And the sales pitch surrounding the Amazon Wind Farm near Elizabeth City continues spreading those deceptions
Published: Friday, April 14th, 2017 @ 4:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's legislative leaders want the incoming Trump administration to consider shutting down the $400 million, 104-turbine Amazon Wind Farm project under construction near Elizabeth City because, they say, the massive turbines would interfere with a nearby radar facility run by the military
Published: Thursday, January 19th, 2017 @ 2:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This morning, the Editorial Board of the News & Observer condemned a lawsuit brought by the Civitas Institute Center for Law and Freedom (CLF) on behalf of two individuals as “suspicious” and nothing more than “political interference.”
Published: Thursday, April 21st, 2016 @ 1:01 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Today, Judge Melissa Owens Lassiter of the Office of Administrative Hearings issued an amended scheduling order setting oral argument for April 13, 2016 in the case of Owens v. North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ)
Published: Monday, April 11th, 2016 @ 5:53 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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"Since 2012," the Apple web site boasts, "all our data centers have been powered by 100 percent renewable energy sources."
Published: Sunday, January 10th, 2016 @ 11:20 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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CLF filed suit against the NC Department of Environmental Quality on behalf of county residents Stephen Owens and Jillanne Gigi Badawi, alleging that they were aggrieved by the agency's determination that Iberdrola Renewables' Amazon Wind Farm East was not subject to state permitting standards.
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 9:39 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Here's our list of who we think has been naughty and nice this year
Published: Friday, January 8th, 2016 @ 10:07 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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This week's newsletter takes a look at renewable energy facilities in the news. For example, a new study from the Carnegie Institution for Science and Stanford University found a surprising (to researchers) ecological cost of solar installations in California, which has a much more aggressive...
Published: Sunday, October 25th, 2015 @ 10:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Despite earlier claims by Iberdrola Renewables officials that the $400 million, 300-megawatt Amazon Wind Farm that will cover 22 acres near Elizabeth City would be built totally from company funds, another Iberdrola official says the project requires some tax incentives to be viable economically.
Published: Monday, October 19th, 2015 @ 9:09 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Despite initial concerns by the U.S. Navy that a massive wind farm near Elizabeth City will disrupt a sophisticated radar station located near the Virginia-North Carolina border, the $400 million project will proceed, and the Navy will have no recourse even if radar performance is disrupted.
Published: Thursday, September 3rd, 2015 @ 3:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"Bringing onshore wind production to North Carolina is part of my 'all-of-the-above' energy strategy."
Published: Tuesday, August 11th, 2015 @ 7:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor McCrory has announced that, as part of his "all-of-the-above" energy strategy (whatever that means), North Carolina will be getting its first industrial size wind-farm, part of a partnership between Amazon and a wind power company called Iberdrola. Of course, probably the most important...
Published: Sunday, August 9th, 2015 @ 4:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We are getting more than our fair share of business - and controversy - from Spain.
Published: Sunday, August 9th, 2015 @ 4:54 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Imagine that you are the CEO of a company, and there are several different materials or technologies that you can use to produce your product. For example, it is not unusual that a product can be made using steel, aluminum, or plastic. Within those categories, it can be made using different...
Published: Thursday, July 23rd, 2015 @ 4:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory will join leaders from Iberdrola Renewables and Amazon tomorrow to break ground on North Carolina’s first commercial-scale wind energy facility, Amazon Wind Farm U.S. East.
Published: Tuesday, July 14th, 2015 @ 11:10 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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At last night's Commissioner meeting, the first-order business was the swearing-in of reelected commissioners, Joe Winslow of the Providence District, Cecil Perry of the Southern Inside District and Dr William Sterritt, at Large.
Published: Thursday, December 11th, 2014 @ 7:51 am
By: John Woodard
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What most civilians do not know, is that military personnel (including base commanders) have been specifically ordered not to speak out publicly against any wind energy projects.
Published: Saturday, November 16th, 2013 @ 2:13 pm
By: John Droz, Jr.
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Wind projects on the North Carolina coast are meeting resistance from three fronts: concerns over bird kills, worries about military training, and GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney's opposition to favorable tax treatment for specific industries.
Published: Friday, August 31st, 2012 @ 6:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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President Obama has been relentless with his attacks on Mitt Romney, and his association with Bain Capital. The major media outlets only print the propaganda that the White House feeds them. Let's hear the other side of the story.
Published: Sunday, July 29th, 2012 @ 3:51 pm
By: Marvin Sparks
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Documents obtained by the Civitas Institute suggest Gov. Bev Perdue is attempting to strong-arm North Carolina's three major utility companies into supplying more expensive energy to their customers in the northeastern part of the state.
Published: Wednesday, December 14th, 2011 @ 4:30 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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