The timing of this PUC report is particularly inconvenient for the simpleton legislators who voted for it. But the VT media will dutifully ignore it until after the election. Then they will pretend to be surprised by this conclusion when they hold a hearing to discuss it (because of course it’s not their job to read it in advance).
This is an indictment of the process by which the GWSA, the Climate Council, the Clean Heat Standard and the 100% Renewable Electricity by 2030 have been forced into law. A very small number of legislators sitting on the house and senate Energy Committees have ignored the tsunami of evidence against these proposals, and the Governor’s vetoes of each of these bills, in an ego driven attempt to make Vermont a leader in solving climate change.
Chief architect Chris Bray, chair of Senate Energy Committee (which has not one Republican member) and House Energy Committee chair Amy Sheldon, and co-chair Laura Sibilia should all resign in disgrace.
“That a supermajority of our elected representatives apparently lack these qualities – as well as seemingly every single reporter and editor employed by our major media outlets – is frankly pathetic.”
Totally spot on, Rob. When I worked on the late Gov. Snelling’s staff I remember him telling us that it was the press corps that occupied a fundamental niche in democracy. It was their role and responsibility to analyze what politicians told them and interpret that for the public … warts and all. Now, our media is largely stenographic, just passing along a he said/she said account to the public. No probing, no digging down to the details, no curiosity. Why else would they accept almost as gospel the creatively messaged “findings” fed them by the Energy Action Network? Being a historian, I examine plenty of issues our newspaper press tackled in the past. Recently, I found an eight-page, full-page 1985 expose in the Rutland Herald on spreading toxic sewage sludge on farm lands by the late Yvonne Daley. Yes, print may be “dead”, but the professionalism and the brains of Vermont’s journalists should not be.
The timing of this PUC report is particularly inconvenient for the simpleton legislators who voted for it. But the VT media will dutifully ignore it until after the election. Then they will pretend to be surprised by this conclusion when they hold a hearing to discuss it (because of course it’s not their job to read it in advance).
This is an indictment of the process by which the GWSA, the Climate Council, the Clean Heat Standard and the 100% Renewable Electricity by 2030 have been forced into law. A very small number of legislators sitting on the house and senate Energy Committees have ignored the tsunami of evidence against these proposals, and the Governor’s vetoes of each of these bills, in an ego driven attempt to make Vermont a leader in solving climate change.
Chief architect Chris Bray, chair of Senate Energy Committee (which has not one Republican member) and House Energy Committee chair Amy Sheldon, and co-chair Laura Sibilia should all resign in disgrace.
Unfortunately, Steve, the problem is that many of these politicians HAVE no shame.
“That a supermajority of our elected representatives apparently lack these qualities – as well as seemingly every single reporter and editor employed by our major media outlets – is frankly pathetic.”
Totally spot on, Rob. When I worked on the late Gov. Snelling’s staff I remember him telling us that it was the press corps that occupied a fundamental niche in democracy. It was their role and responsibility to analyze what politicians told them and interpret that for the public … warts and all. Now, our media is largely stenographic, just passing along a he said/she said account to the public. No probing, no digging down to the details, no curiosity. Why else would they accept almost as gospel the creatively messaged “findings” fed them by the Energy Action Network? Being a historian, I examine plenty of issues our newspaper press tackled in the past. Recently, I found an eight-page, full-page 1985 expose in the Rutland Herald on spreading toxic sewage sludge on farm lands by the late Yvonne Daley. Yes, print may be “dead”, but the professionalism and the brains of Vermont’s journalists should not be.
It’s not even a he said/she said account anymore. It’s Democrats/Progressives say, and that’s it. Pure propaganda.