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Global Warming Hysteria In Loudoun County
By Greg L | 7 December 2009 | Loudoun County | 7 Comments
NOVATownHall has a great article today on Loudoun County Supervisor Andrea McGimsey, a hyper-liberal enviro-maniac who is trying to push through a county energy policy based on the discredited global warming hysteria. The proposed policy would require every home and business in the county be audited for energy usage, that in order to transfer real property, it must conform with “Energy Performance Labeling” which could add hundreds, if not thousands of dollars in costs to the transaction. To top it off, new development — both commercial and residential — would have to have an “Integrated Energy Master Plan” that would boost costs by up to a quarter-million dollars for a project and a county “cap & trade” scheme for carbon dioxide emissions would be put in place. All this in the name of combating “global warming”, and in the process depressing economic activity and job creation during tough economic times.
What really shocks here is that Supervisor McGimsey seem to have tried to conceal her financial relationship with an organization called the “Climate Prosperity Project” where she serves as Executive Director. With McGimsey standing to potentially profit when municipalities succumb to the scare tactics of the “global warming” crowd, it is shocking to see her taking point on getting Loudoun County to enact this foolishness without making clear how she might personally benefit.
Go read. You’ll be glad you did.
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Al Gore is a great teacher.
As much as I despise the Dillon Rule, wouldn’t that preclude Loudoun from going down this road?
http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/Environment/2009/12/07/ClimateRefugees/
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401428/post
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401111/posts
Climate Justice : Pay up or prepare to be flooded
The purpose of the Climate hoax. Redistribution of wealth.
Going Green was always about ….$$$$$$….Getting the Green.
The saddest part of this is fraudsters like these will not have to face justice for their crimes.
If memory serves me, the supervisors proposal is in line with new federal legislation circulating in DC. The legislation set requirements for existing property, property for sale, and new construction - and applied equally to both privately owned and public property.
The federal legislation requires that any property owner - residential or commercial - who pulls county permits for any project on their property must obtain an energy efficiently audit in order to receive their permit. The mandate was broad enough that if you want to put on a deck on your home, you would have to have a full house energy audit in order to pull permits to build that deck.
Homes or commercial buildings for sale, whether public or private, would be required to have energy efficiency audits and to publish the efficiency rating they received before they listed their home or property for sale.
New construction woud be required to meet tough energy efficiency standards and to make the efficiency rating for the building they construct available to the public.
States and municipalities would be required to meet energy efficiency targets for every structure in the state - whether private or government owned.
I don’t believe this legislation has passed the Congress. The President has mandated that all federal facilities and operations be audited for energy efficiency and meet new standards, but, I believe the federal legislation mandating audits and minimum acceptable standards for private residences and commercial buildings in the US hasn’t passed, yet. Unfortunately many states have jumped on the bandwagon and been effecting virtually the same legislation for property in their states - even privately owned property.
I don’t think the General Assembly has effected such legislation for buildings in the state nor expanded any executive mandates to privately owned property. It seems the Loudoun supervisor has recognized that passing such broad legislation at the state level is unlikely with Republicans in control, so she’s attempting to circumvent that roadblock by implementing energy efficiency mandates at the local level as part of the zoning and permitting regulatory process.
Here’s an article from the DC Examiner that discusses the federal legislation.
http://www.examiner.com/x-14613-Kansas-City-Headlines-Examiner~y2009m7d1-Clean-Energy-and-Security-Act-brings-auditors-into-your-home
I own a green car. ;^)
You can’t argue fact and logic with these people. They do not want anything to get in the way of their agenda, and of course while they go on about the greed of “big” corporations, they sure don’t mind getting rich in the process of promoting their selfish goals.