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I hope Republicans remain strong in keeping yet more subsidies for renewables out of stimulus

Brookings, World Resources Institute, and most experts, including pro-renewables ones, have strongly & publicly opposed extending those dumb corrupt production subsidies since *2012*
*Eight* years ago leading renewable energy advocates, including I, advocated phasing out the the production tax credit for wind

The wind subsidy has been in place for nearly 30 years

That’s gross corruption & proof wind isn’t viable without subsidy

brookings.edu/research/beyon…
You can’t on the one hand claim renewables are so cheap that we don’t need fossil fuels and nuclear & on the other keep coming back to the trough for more subsidies

That they’ve apparently chosen to do so in the midst of a pandemic is gross abuse of power
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Mike Shellenberger
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Last year you called nuclear “extremely dangerous, expensive & time-consuming”
& unnecessary for most nations

In December, Germany closed a nuclear plant that could have kept running for decades.

Now, you’re criticizing it for replacing it with this new coal plant

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Words matter, and you are a very influential young woman.

Had you joined our pro-nuclear protests in Germany, and defended rather than attacked nuclear, Germany might still be operating the Phillipsburg nuclear plant, and abandoned the new Uniper coal plant
Also in December, your home country of Sweden unnecessarily closed a nuclear reactor by imposing a massive tax on it.

Had you spoken out in defense of nuclear, rather than attacked it, the reactor might still be producing zero-emissions power.

apnews.com/a08facfe81523e…
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Mike Shellenberger
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The doc film that should be canceled isn't "Planet of the Humans," it's "Gasland"

The person who should apologize is you, @joshfoxfilm

You *deliberately* mislead millions of people into believing fracking for natural gas caused that sensational fire

Here's the proof

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@joshfoxfilm In the trailer to "Gasland," a man stands by his sink with a sign above it reading, Do Not Drink this Water. We then see a congressman saying, with frustration in his voice, “What we’re doing is searching for a problem that does not exist!”

@joshfoxfilm "Gasland" cuts back to the man at the sink. He is holding a lit cigarette lighter near the faucet’s tap, igniting huge flames that force him to jump backward

The media picked up on the story and depicted fracking as a significant threat to America’s natural environment
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Mike Shellenberger
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Major new documentary film produced by Michael Moore exposes

- why renewables are worse for environment than fossil fuels

- why green leaders promote them

- why everybody got it wrong

My latest @Forbes — please share!

forbes.com/sites/michaels…
@Forbes "I found myself thinking of Robert Stone’s 2013 documentary, "Pandora’s Promise," which made the case for nuclear.... ['Planet of the Humans'] doesn’t mention nuclear and – a little lamely, perhaps – has no clear moral"

@PeterBradshaw1

theguardian.com/film/2020/apr/…
I recognize that I am biased since I am in "Pandora's Promise" but it remains the best, most hopeful, and most inspirational environmental documentary film out there

Trailer here:

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