Council, TMVOA Like Green Gondola Project
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“It got broad, unanimous support of council to find ways to invest in renewable energy,” said Mountain Village Mayor Bob Delves of the project.
The brainchild of Ben Williams, founder of the Norwood-based Green Credit Clearing House, LLC (also known as Getting Climate Change Handled), an environmental commodities brokerage he founded in 2007, the Green Gondola Project would reduce a substantial portion of the gondola’s carbon footprint, if achieved, at no cost to either the town or the TMVOA.
Williams pitched the idea to the TMVOA Board of Directors at its August 11 meeting. “At this meeting, the TMVOA Board agreed to express its unanimous support to town council encouraging the town to further research and investigate the possibility of creating a ‘Green Gondola’ program which would help to offset the environmental impacts of the gondola system for the regional community,” TMVOA President Nelson Sharp wrote in a letter to council.
“We understand the project would be self-funding, and would not require Town or TMVOA funding,” he continued.
Rather than seeking funding from those sources, Williams has proposed that he sell carbon credits through his brokerage that would in turn pay for the incremental purchase of the 250 kilowatt solar photovoltaic system required for the offset.
“Once certain margins are surpassed, individual arrays can be installed at their locations,” Williams told council during its meeting last week.
Williams believes that the system will cost between $1.5 and $2.2 million when fully installed, and will place about 1,250 square meters of solar panels on structures owned by Town of Mountain Village and the TMVOA, including maintenance facilities, sheds, and the gondola parking structure.
The gondola uses about five percent of Mountain Village’s total annual energy consumption and the offset would equal about 430 metric tons of carbon annually – or enough to fill up 384 Washington monuments, Williams said.
The carbon credit exchanges would be administered by the GCCH, which would earn a commission on each sales paid for by the purchaser, through the local nonprofit environmental organization, The New Community Coalition.
As a result, all donations would be tax deductible and Williams is banking on that status to entice businesses and individuals that are concerned about climate change to commit to part or all of the roughly $34,000 cost to sponsor a gondola cabin (based on 66 cabins).
In return they would be recognized for their support by way of a plaque or some other tribute on the sponsored cabin.
For those who are unable to cut such a large check, Williams said, he is also looking into a way for people to purchase individual pounds of carbon.
“The hope is that we can get this done within two years,” said Williams.
Williams originally envisioned an alternate goal to offset 100 percent of the electricity used by the gondola at a cost of between $7.4 and $11.2 million, but after giving it further thought, Williams described that plan as “almost too ambitious.”
The solar array required to make that offset would need 6,000 square meters of solar panels, and the Town and TMVOA together do not own enough roof space to accommodate them all.
As a result, the balance would need to be installed offsite, which would make the project far more complicated than it is at a 20 percent offset.
Williams described the Green Gondola Project as a bridge that could inspire other communities to integrate renewable energy into their infrastructures.
“It’s a powerful place to start; there’s a beginning, middle [and] destination,” he said. “Everybody loves the gondola.”
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The CRU OTOH, devised a way to manipulate the data to support their pet project. When the data is fixed to support the theory the whole thing is nothing better than religion, or war.
George Bush fit the intelligence to the intent to invade Iraq, just as the CRU guys fit the data to the climate change hoopla.
The “Climategate” whistleblower at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) now faces a police investigation at the instigation of the University authorities. His crime? He revealed what many had long suspected, says the former science advisor to Lady Margaret Thatcher, Lord Christopher Monckton.
A tiny clique of politicized scientists, paid by unscientific politicians with whom they were financially and politically linked, were responsible for gathering and reporting data on temperatures from the palaeoclimate to today’s climate. The “Team,” as they called themselves, bent and distorted scientific data to fit a nakedly political story-line profitable to themselves and congenial to the governments that, these days, pay the bills for 99 percent of all scientific research, says Monckton.
What the hacked emails revealed:
The CRU at East Anglia had profited to the tune of at least $20 million in “research” grants from the Team’s activities.
The Team had tampered with the complex, bureaucratic processes of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), so as to exclude inconvenient scientific results from its four Assessment Reports, and to influence the panel’s conclusions for political rather than scientific reasons.
The Team had conspired in an attempt to redefine what is and is not peer-reviewed science for the sake of excluding results that did not fit what they and the politicians with whom they were closely linked wanted the U.N. climate panel to report.
They had tampered with their own data so as to conceal inconsistencies and errors.
Also:
They had emailed one another about using a “trick” for the sake of concealing a “decline” in temperatures in the paleoclimate.
They had expressed dismay at the fact that, contrary to all of their predictions, global temperatures had not risen in any statistically-significant sense for 15 years, and had been falling for nine years.
They had mounted a venomous public campaign of disinformation and denigration of their scientific opponents via a website that they had expensively created.
Contrary to all the rules of open, verifiable science, the Team had committed the criminal offense of conspiracy to conceal and then to destroy computer codes and data that had been legitimately requested by an external researcher who had very good reason to doubt that their “research” was either honest or competent.
[url]http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6936328.ece[/url]
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