If you’re wondering what is going on with all these bio-fuel boondoggles dotted around North Carolina, it’s because the Bootleggers and Baptists (pdf) are at it again!
A short paragraph inside North Carolina’s landmark renewable energy bill could mean millions for one obscure company.
The provision requires major utilities to sell electricity produced from poultry waste — a potential boon for Fibrowatt LLC, which spent $85,000 this year lobbying the General Assembly about the company and its product.
The legislation, passed earlier this year, requires major utilities to produce at least 12.5 percent of electricity by 2021 from renewable sources, including solar, wind and poultry excrement, among others.
Who pays? You do. And if you believe the hype about jobs and the environment, you’d better think again (and again and again and again).
-Max Borders
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