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Dominion Hides Threat to Whales

Secrecy abounds around the monster offshore wind (OSW) project proposed by Dominion Energy. In this case it is all about the threat to the severely endangered North Atlantic Right Whales. ...

David Wojick
September 19, 2022

Jefferson Institute Legal Analysis: Performance Standard for Offshore Wind Farm is Proper

Despite Dominion Energy Virginia’s complaints that the Virginia State Corporation Commission has exceeded its authority, a legal analysis provided by the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy finds that the...

Stephen D. Haner
September 13, 2022

Consequences of The Quest for Zero Carbon

Virginians may be finally waking up to the consequences of the headlong rush to adopt utopian energy policies under our previous governor. The issues are getting more attention than ever...

Stephen D. Haner
September 6, 2022

Dominion Will Only Build Wind Farm If Risk is on its Consumers

Now comes applicant Dominion Energy Virginia, petitioning the Virginia State Corporation Commission to reverse its recent decision to impose actual financial risk on the company and its stockholders. If a...

Stephen D. Haner
August 27, 2022

Renewables Subsidy Chaos Coming

A funny thing happened on the way to the Senate. It is all about the so-called Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which really should be named the Inflation Act. Only Democrats...

David Wojick
August 24, 2022

SCC Approves Dominion Wind Project, Cites “Will of the General Assembly”

Rejecting an agreement that its own staff reached with Dominion Energy Virginia, the State Corporation Commission has imposed at least some level of financial risk on the utility’s shareholders should...
Stephen D. Haner
August 8, 2022

No MVP in this Trading Deal?

And now, from our “I’ll believe it when I see it” department, comes the expectation that passage of President Joe Biden’s new corporate tax hike and green energy incentives package...

Stephen D. Haner
August 5, 2022

Solar installations hasten loss of Virginia farmland

Virginia lost about 2,000 acres of productive farmland per week in 2021, according to data released in February by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. There are many reasons why farmers...

Barbara Hollingsworth
July 26, 2022

Five Reasons To Reject Offshore Wind Project (The video shows Number Five)

Researchers at the University of Virginia are part of an ongoing effort to redesign wind turbines to be both more efficient and better protected from storm-scale winds, as described in...

Stephen D. Haner
July 22, 2022

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