FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 13, 2016
CONTACT: Demi Dowdy (919) 834-2099
demi.dowdy@NCCivitas.org
RALEIGH – Lead Counsel for the Civitas Institute Center for Law and Freedom (CLF) Elliot Engstrom today argued on behalf of Perquimans County residents who are challenging the Department of Environmental Quality’s failure to properly permit the construction of 499-foot-tall wind turbines near their home.
The case was heard at the Office of Administrative Hearings (OAH) in Raleigh. Engstrom released the following statement:
“Our clients allege that an April 29 letter sent by the Department of Environmental Quality to Iberdrola Renewables violated North Carolina law and substantially prejudiced the rights of our clients by depriving them of legislative protections of which they were intended beneficiaries. NCDEQ argues that the wind energy project is grandfathered in under North Carolina law.”
“Administrative Law Judge Melissa Lassiter heard argument from all parties — including intervenors Weyerhaeuser Company and Pasquotank County. Judge Lassiter concluded the hearing by saying that she will take the case under advisement and issue a decision in the future.”
To interview Engstrom, contact Demi Dowdy at 919.834.2099, or demi.dowdy@nccivitas.org.
Founded in 2005, the Civitas Institute is a Raleigh, NC-based, 501(c)(3) nonprofit policy organization committed to creating a North Carolina whose citizens enjoy liberty and prosperity derived from limited government, personal responsibility and civic engagement. To that end, Civitas develops and advocates for conservative policy solutions to improve the lives of all North Carolinians.
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The reason we are getting solar is because of Global Warming.That is why this article in the Washington Post is so funny.Be sure to read all of it.The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consulafft, at Bergen, Norway.
Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes. Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm. Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.
Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds.
I apologize, I neglected to mention that this report was from November 2, 1922. As reported by the AP and published in The Washington Post – 88 years ago!
The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consulafft, at Bergen, Norway.
Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes. Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm. Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.
Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds.
We have all these turbines to fight Global Warming.That’s why this is so funny.
I apologize, I neglected to mention that this report was from November 2, 1922. As reported by the AP and published in The Washington Post – 88 years ago!
Well said, Larry, but here’s what the loony lefty GW alarmists are REALLY trying to accomplish:
“At a news conference last week in Brussels, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.
“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally … to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years…” she said.” (Investor’s Business Daily, 2/10/2015)
From Michael Mann and Algore on down, GW has been a 100% political fraud and SCAM. There NEVER HAS BEEN ANY SCIENCE WORTH TWO HOOTS BEHIND IT!!! The “97% of scientists agree” is a SCAM. The “polar bears are all dying” is a SCAM. The “droughts, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, and fires will all explode in numbers” is a SCAM. Even the national database of terrestrial temperature measurement stations has been SCAMMED, since the RAW DATA has been MANIPULATED TO LOOK WARMER!!! Christiana Figueres is the Jonathan Gruber of climate politics. THANKS for spilling the TRUTH, Christiana!!!