19 Oct '12, 8pm

A Koch-allied group aims to make wind energy toxic

A Koch-allied group aims to make wind energy toxic

The Koch brothers don’t like wind energy. This is because the wind is free, uncontainable, limitless. The Kochs prefer costly, contained, limited. Stuff they can dig up and put in a barrel and sell. People don’t buy barrels of wind. So the Kochs try and kill it. There was the time the Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity held a protest to oppose kids flying kites. (This is a real thing that happened .) There is the thing about how Bill Koch (the less-popular third brother) is spending big bucks to stop an offshore wind project near his home in Massachusetts. And there’s the thing with a Koch-backed group wanting to make a key support for the wind industry “toxic” to politicians. Wind-powered. That last one is new. From ThinkProgress : The wind energy industry faces a lame duck fight in the House of Representatives over extending the expiring production tax credit. The tax ...

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