Please take a look at this important analysis of the Schumer-Manchin bill. We need to get this word out immediately. Thanks.


https://www.windaction.org/posts/53848


Schumer-Manchin: A terror unleashed

Schumer-Manchin makes the wind and solar credits permanent, not phased out as advertised. …The environmental destruction that will be left by developers marching across the country carpeting our ridgelines and open lands with 600-foot spinning turbines, solar panels, substations, and miles of high voltage transmission is impossible to quantify. Habitats will be degraded and destroyed, viewsheds industrialized, and wildlife killed or displaced. Federal and state agencies will be hamstrung by new permitting rules – also part of Schumer-Manchin – that will impair their ability to avoid and minimize project impacts.

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The Schumer-Manchin bill that dropped last week should erase any doubt whether Congress is serious about lowering inflation, addressing energy costs, or protecting the environment. It’s not!

Ironically dubbed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, Schumer-Manchin will do nothing to reduce inflation. But what it will do is far worse. Schumer-Manchin will unleash the largest industrialization of U.S. open lands not seen since the damming of our western rivers. The modern “environmental” movement will finally realize its dream of transforming the mid-section of the United States, from North Dakota to Texas and Nevada to Ohio, into a massive electric generating facility powered by wind and solar.

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FULL ARTICLE https://www.windaction.org/posts/53848