By: Camp Creek

Camp Creek — Sat, 24 May 2014 15:17:00 +0000

Sadly, all of this is bunkum. Tracy, Christine and Wasatch are not “entrepreneurs.” They are de facto government agents, dependent on federal tax credits and state-level “renewable portfolio standards,” and on a government requirement that utilities purchase energy from so-called “qualifying facilities.” And Wasatch “games” federal requirements to take advantage of that mandate, in some cases by declaring that a large, non-qualifying project is multiple small, “qualifying facilities.” Tracy and Christine persist even when communities overwhelming oppose their project (in one Wyoming county, more than 70% of respondents to an all-households survey opposed a pending Wasatch deal). There are many ways to reduce the carbon intensity of our cloves. Wasatch-style state capitalism isn’t it.

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By: Camp Creek