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Showing Original Post only (View all)UNBELIEVABLE: A Bill in Kansas to Outlaw Sustainability [View all]
Kansas's Self-Destruct Button: A Bill to Outlaw SustainabilityBy Tom Randall Apr 9, 2013 8:10 AM ET
A Vortex 2 rotating supercell severe thunderstorm near Dodge City, Kansas. Photographer: Ryan McGinnis
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...Now the states Committee on Energy and Environment is proposing a law that would prohibit spending on anything that wont set Kansas on a course to self-destruction. House Bill No. 2366 would ban all state and municipal funds for anything related to sustainable development, which it defines as: development in which resource use aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but also for generations to come."
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...Kansas is the eighth biggest oil-and-gas producing state in the U.S., and fossil fuels will remain a big part of the economy for decades to come. Ask Dennis Hedke. Hes the geophysicist who does contract work for oil and gas companies and is chairman of the committee that wants to ban sustainability in Kansas...
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...For the record, Hedke said House Bill No. 2366 shouldnt affect the wind industry, because Kansas already doesnt support wind development with public funds. In fact, he says, we dont have laws in Kansas right now that relate to sustainable development. Its more about preventing sustainable development in the future...
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...Kansas has the wind-energy potential of 3,102 terawatt hours a year, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. Thats about 80 percent of the annual electricity consumption of the entire United States. If Kansas developed just a tiny fraction of that -- 7,158 megawatts -- by 2030, it would provide economic benefits of about $7.8 billion for the state, according to the Energy Departments National Renewable Energy Lab. And it would do so without contributing to the global warming thats frying the states wheat and corn and pushing Americas breadbasket north...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-09/kansas-s-self-destruct-button-a-bill-to-outlaw-sustainability.html
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They seem to love them! In the last election they voted in the most RW extremists they could find.
RKP5637
Apr 2013
#5
It's become a horrible place. And the agenda by the Koch Brothers, the 7th and 8th richest
RKP5637
Apr 2013
#33
In this district many R's just run uncontested, not even a dem challenger. Last time Brownstain
RKP5637
Apr 2013
#21
History shows that the morons will simply blame the godless libruls when they do face
Boomerproud
Apr 2013
#23
Koch Industries, Inc. /ˈkoʊk/ is an American multinational corporation based in Wichita, Kansas.
HiPointDem
Apr 2013
#18
No, I'm saying it's naive to dismiss the danger because some kooks are wrong about something else.
Occulus
Apr 2013
#62
Good, somebody needed to put those enviromental wackos in place, and put economy first.
napoleon_in_rags
Apr 2013
#37
"state and municipal funds for anything related to “sustainable development,” "
formercia
Apr 2013
#45
Kansas farmers are doing their best to pump the Oglalla aquifer dry so this bill just seems
byeya
Apr 2013
#46
It's an economic grab favoring certain kinds of companies to take advantage of 0 corp. income taxes
patrice
Apr 2013
#52
Call it "eating your seed corn" and maybe the Kansans who vote for these monsters will understand.
baldguy
Apr 2013
#61
I'm glad some DUers have paid some attention and recommended this this time around
muriel_volestrangler
Apr 2013
#64