#ncsen: Solar goons bet BIG on Burr
Not quite sure how this one slipped past us, but here it is from early last month: The Charlotte-based ClearPath Action Fund is putting at least $400,000 into Republican U.S.
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Study: Solar subsidies = higher power bills (*Surprise!*)
We’ve got an army of lobbyists all over Jones Street lining pockets with cash to protect “alternative energy mandates.” We’ve got a guy in Charlotte with too much time and
Continue readingMonkey Business Report: SB554 + Indians + solar subsidies
Granted, SB554 has the stink of plain ol’ political corruption. But evidence is mounting that suggests this may be yet more hijinks from the solar goons. The developer pushing hard
Continue reading#ncga: SB554, a recipe for cronyism, budget-busting AND a boon for solar goons?
On the face of it, SB554 sounds like a nice, innovative idea — leasing school buildngs under creative financing schemes to cash-strapped county systems around the state. But outgoing treasurer
Continue readingSolar mandates = um, free market ??????
Lobbyists and other assorted solar goons are passing around a News & Record op-ed on how important solar mandates are to — get this — *preserving the free market*: This election
Continue reading#ncga: Solar goons TRYING to bail out Lil’ Lord Nelson
North Carolina has the only renewable energy portfolio mandate in the southeastern United States, and some of the most generous taxpayer-funded benefits for solar energy providers. When you consider how
Continue reading#ncga: Solar regs debate has GOP chattering
Ms. Leslie, Binky’s boss over at WRAL, decided to go out and do a little of that reportin’ thing: […] The solar industry has blossomed in North Carolina since lawmakers
Continue reading#ncga: A crony-capitalist fairy tale from Andy Wells
Mother Goose, meet state senator Andy Wells: Asking Permission He works from sunrise to sunset, spent the last 40 years raising his family, sent his children to college (where they
Continue reading#ncga: Hager slaps at solar goons (But what about Marco?)
The majority leader of the North Carolina House has taken to Facebook to poke at the crowd — inside and outside of his party — who want government and private
Continue reading#ncga: Solar goons backing Burr’s primary foe
We’ve been documenting the fight over crony capitalism for solar farms within the NCGOP. We’ve got folks who think tax breaks and subsidies for solar panels is a more important
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