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OKIsItJustMe

(19,938 posts)
Thu Apr 18, 2019, 12:02 AM Apr 2019

Trump's false claim about windmills, noise and cancer defended by Koch-backed blog

https://www.energyandpolicy.org/trump-anti-wind-koch/
Trump’s false claim about windmills, noise and cancer defended by Koch-backed blog
Dave Anderson • April 17, 2019

A blog post defending President Trump’s false claim that noise from windmills causes cancer has been published on MasterResource.org, a blog run by a think tank backed by the powerful Koch network.

MasterResource.org is a project of the Institute for Energy Research (IER), a group that together with its advocacy arm the American Energy Alliance has received millions of dollars from the Koch network, as well as money from the coal, oil and gas industries.

Regular contributors to MasterResource.org, which launched in 2008, include Robert L. Bradley, the founder and CEO of IER and AEA, and a Who’s Who of climate change skeptics and “grassroots” anti-wind power activists.



The blog post defending Trump’s misleading remarks about wind power was authored by Sherri Lange, who is the leader of a number of anti-wind groups, including the North American Platform Against Wind (NA-PAW).

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Trump's false claim about windmills, noise and cancer defended by Koch-backed blog (Original Post) OKIsItJustMe Apr 2019 OP
Apparently Not The Onion ... mr_lebowski Apr 2019 #1
I am anti-wind, since I oppose the gas industry. NNadir Apr 2019 #2
 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
1. Apparently Not The Onion ...
Thu Apr 18, 2019, 12:09 AM
Apr 2019

Anti-Wind Groups?



It's so mind-numbingly fucking stupid ... you can't make this shit up.

NNadir

(33,516 posts)
2. I am anti-wind, since I oppose the gas industry.
Thu Apr 18, 2019, 02:56 AM
Apr 2019

I don't consider myself stupid.

Now, someone who supports the gas industry and opposes wind energy is potentially stupid, since the wind industry fails in a New York minute without gas to back it up, but that's neither here nor there.

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