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Isn’t that EXACTLY why it’s difficult to take conservative opposition to federal spending very seriously? The alternative energy subsidy program is a favorite of the Obama Administration, a Democratic president, who dramatically expanded subsidies for wind and solar projects across the country and who recently pushed to make the subsidies permanent. How is it possible that in Monticello, especially, so many of its citizens can find favor with a federal program promoted by a president they seem to, in all other ways, despise?
To read more of Jim’s story, click the link below:
Take it or Leave it: Wind Subsidies and Conflicted Values, Left & Right…by Jim Stiles
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Click Here to See Photos of Utah Before the Tourists:
Native American Indian children playing with ram.
http://time.com/3817668/utah-desert/?xid=life_socialflow_facebook
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Efforts to increase wind power mean that turbine blades are getting bigger and bigger. But a new design in the works takes the idea to levels most people can barely imagine: Blades up to 656.2 feet long — more than two football fields.
Today’s longest blades are 262.5 feet. The blades at Imperial County’s Ocotillo wind farm, which sends electricity to San Diego, are 173.9 feet long.
“We call it the extreme scale,” Eric Loth, a University of Virginia professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, said of the planned mega-blades. “There’s nothing like it.”
The early design would place two — rather than three — blades onto a tower. But to construct something of that size, the tower is estimated to rise 1,574 feet, nearly one-third of a mile.
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http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-cutting-edge-windmills-20160313-story.html
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“We did not think of the great open plains as ‘wild.’ Only to the white man was nature a ‘wilderness’ and only to him was the land ‘infested’ with ‘wild’ animals and ‘savage’ people. To us it was tame. earth was bountiful and we were surrounded by the blessings of the Great Mystery. Not until the hairy men from the east came and with brutal frenzy heaped injustices upon us and the families we loved was it ‘wild.’ When the very animals of the forest began fleeing from his approach, then it was for us that the ‘Wild West’ began.”
Luther Standing Bear
Oglala Sioux
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An open record request by residents of Brown County, Wisconsin, has exposed documents showing that former Brown County Health Officer Chua Xiong experienced severe migraine headaches when around the utility-scale wind turbines at the Shirley wind facility. The emails between Ms. Xiong and her intern can be accessed by selecting the document links on this page.
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SERIOUSLY…WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT RIGHT NOW.
Last week The Zephyr completed its 27th year of continuous publication. The changes that have occurred—to our publication, the town of Moab, Utah, and to the world—since 1989, are almost unfathomable. Our planet and our lives bear little resemblance to the place we once knew. As for my beloved Moab, I can only paraphrase Ed Abbey…
“Can you tell me where Moab, Utah is?”
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“No…but I can tell you where it was.”
But The Zephyr stays involved and continues to report the changes. Our 15,000 word investigative report, “What’s Past Is Prologue,” about Moab’s recent political controversy, has generated intense interest. We thought it was important to pursue this story when no one else in the Utah media would touch it.
And more than any other publication in southeast Utah, we continue to chronicle the history of the places and people who once made the Colorado Plateau such an interesting place to live. I am slowly working through thousands of new images, taken in the 1940s, 50s and 60s, by Herb Ringer, Edna Fridley, and Charles Kreischer. The collections are priceless and we hope you feel the same. Our plan is to share them with you. And after 30 years in the canyon country, my collection of images is slowly being archived as well.
But with the exception of a handful of longtime advertisers, we now survive on the financial support of our individual readers. As ads dwindle, we must ask our readers to step up and help. Every component of The Zephyr web site is free to everyone and, as long as we stay alive, it always will be. But we can’t keep going without you. If just a small percentage of our readers join the Backbone, we can keep those proverbial beans on the table.
So please, if you think The Zephyr still has value and still makes a difference–if only a tiny one—consider supporting our little publication. We’re not quite ready to disappear. Not quite.
Thanks,
Jim & Tonya Stiles
Here’s how you can keep us going…
WHEN YOU JOIN THE BACKBONE or RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP,
you’ll receive a complimentary signed copy of BRAVE NEW WEST
by Jim Stiles or a DVD of the documentary film, “Brave New West,”
from High Plains Films. (Let us know which you prefer)
And if you send us a good head & shoulders photo of yourself, Stiles will cartoon you for the Backbone and send the original to you with the book.
One year Backbone membership: $100
Three years: $275
(NOTE: You can also support The Zephyr with smaller contributions…follow the link below)
You can use your credit card through PayPal at our web site:
Or we still take checks:
PO Box 271, Monticello, UT 84535
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