UPUC Commissioner Jean Tierney, who is retiring in 11 days, had some parting words for the Climate Council, leaving no question as to her opinion about the Vermont supermajority’s obsession with emissions reductions:
“With all due respect as somebody who lost her home in Irene I think the emphasis of this council is completely misdirected. We need to be thinking about how we use our resources. And we should be directing those at resiliency in my opinion, and also frankly in recovery.
Because we can speak large thoughts about (CO2)emissions reductions. Our emissions at the end of the day and our reductions of them may be morally just and therefore compelling, but it is a compulsion to focus on them when the immediate needs of keeping people safe directly, knowing that we’ve got storms coming, are being sidelined or neglected in order to pursue those measures. And by that I mean every cent that goes into policies that are directed toward reductions when we need to be directing every cent toward hardening our systems and helping people survive here. I would urge this Council to rethink where it’s putting its intellectual capital because I just I cannot over emphasize how wrong I think what it is we are doing. Those are my parting words to the council, thank you.”
The Clean Heat Standard, the Global Warming Solutions Act and the 100% Renewable Electricity by 2030 Act, all three of which were forced into law over the Governor’s veto, must be repealed, and Vermont’s Comprehensive Energy Plan must be drastically revised to prioritize lowest cost and most reliable as the governing criteria, as was the case before renewable subsidies were enacted.
June Tierney is the Commissioner of the Department of Public Service, not the PUC, but yes, she's been a voice of reason throughout this farcical nonsense (she's the one who way back in 2020 or 21 warned that the GWSA was a "Mack Truck" that was going to turn Vermonters into roadkill. She will be missed when she retires.
My last math check was that Vermont's "emissions" are 1/100th of 1 percent compared to China!
That we wish to set impossible standards to a global issue and bankrupt Vermonters in the process, is just proof positive we are heading for a economic train wreck here in Vermont.
Add the fact we in Vermont are a rapidly aging population and a declining birth rate so the tax burden rope gets even tighter.
Even IF you believe in Climate Change, I look North and South and East and West of Vermont, and no other fools in other states or countries do I see crushing regulations and restrictions at such a high cost that we in Vermont to an issue we can not solve on our own.
Hasn't the Math been done to show that our rural state with much open land and forrests show that we are actually have an offset rating on emmissions.
Soon to add more restrictions, when and where and how far we can travel. (Based on the Climate Board calculations, you can only use your wood stove "x" days a week and your driving mileage calculation for the month is "x" miles. Bizarre plans to tax more and how to tax those using more than one heat source in their homes?
Let's see, if have solar panels a wood stove and heat with oil. What autocratic bureaucratic board or fools will create a higher tax for me (maybe throw in a credit for my solar?) from a VT Climate Council that really answers to no one!!
The Climate Council dictates "We must meet our objectives, no matter what the cost" by some Stalinistic 5 Year Plan!!? Is that the CC's mission statement and policy when the cost will just make Vermont beyond ever affordable to live here!
All I see is a complete governmental overreach with little to no accountability or oversight and that is out of touch with Vermonters to attempt to solve a problem that goes way beyond our borders.
UPUC Commissioner Jean Tierney, who is retiring in 11 days, had some parting words for the Climate Council, leaving no question as to her opinion about the Vermont supermajority’s obsession with emissions reductions:
“With all due respect as somebody who lost her home in Irene I think the emphasis of this council is completely misdirected. We need to be thinking about how we use our resources. And we should be directing those at resiliency in my opinion, and also frankly in recovery.
Because we can speak large thoughts about (CO2)emissions reductions. Our emissions at the end of the day and our reductions of them may be morally just and therefore compelling, but it is a compulsion to focus on them when the immediate needs of keeping people safe directly, knowing that we’ve got storms coming, are being sidelined or neglected in order to pursue those measures. And by that I mean every cent that goes into policies that are directed toward reductions when we need to be directing every cent toward hardening our systems and helping people survive here. I would urge this Council to rethink where it’s putting its intellectual capital because I just I cannot over emphasize how wrong I think what it is we are doing. Those are my parting words to the council, thank you.”
The Clean Heat Standard, the Global Warming Solutions Act and the 100% Renewable Electricity by 2030 Act, all three of which were forced into law over the Governor’s veto, must be repealed, and Vermont’s Comprehensive Energy Plan must be drastically revised to prioritize lowest cost and most reliable as the governing criteria, as was the case before renewable subsidies were enacted.
June Tierney is the Commissioner of the Department of Public Service, not the PUC, but yes, she's been a voice of reason throughout this farcical nonsense (she's the one who way back in 2020 or 21 warned that the GWSA was a "Mack Truck" that was going to turn Vermonters into roadkill. She will be missed when she retires.
YEP You know he's right folks...again. We are being abused by our elected "representatives".
My last math check was that Vermont's "emissions" are 1/100th of 1 percent compared to China!
That we wish to set impossible standards to a global issue and bankrupt Vermonters in the process, is just proof positive we are heading for a economic train wreck here in Vermont.
Add the fact we in Vermont are a rapidly aging population and a declining birth rate so the tax burden rope gets even tighter.
Even IF you believe in Climate Change, I look North and South and East and West of Vermont, and no other fools in other states or countries do I see crushing regulations and restrictions at such a high cost that we in Vermont to an issue we can not solve on our own.
Hasn't the Math been done to show that our rural state with much open land and forrests show that we are actually have an offset rating on emmissions.
Soon to add more restrictions, when and where and how far we can travel. (Based on the Climate Board calculations, you can only use your wood stove "x" days a week and your driving mileage calculation for the month is "x" miles. Bizarre plans to tax more and how to tax those using more than one heat source in their homes?
Let's see, if have solar panels a wood stove and heat with oil. What autocratic bureaucratic board or fools will create a higher tax for me (maybe throw in a credit for my solar?) from a VT Climate Council that really answers to no one!!
The Climate Council dictates "We must meet our objectives, no matter what the cost" by some Stalinistic 5 Year Plan!!? Is that the CC's mission statement and policy when the cost will just make Vermont beyond ever affordable to live here!
All I see is a complete governmental overreach with little to no accountability or oversight and that is out of touch with Vermonters to attempt to solve a problem that goes way beyond our borders.