{"id":3766,"date":"2013-10-20T22:14:20","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T03:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/?p=3766"},"modified":"2013-10-21T06:25:57","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T11:25:57","slug":"extremist-left-wing-enviro-hate-groups-propagand-accuses-nd-power-plants-of-killing-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=3766","title":{"rendered":"Extremist left-wing enviro hate group&#8217;s propaganda accuses ND power plants of killing people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone gave me this flyer that they were handed outside the federal building on 3rd and Rosser last week:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/2013\/10\/sierra_club_propaganda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3764\" alt=\"sierra_club_propaganda\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/2013\/10\/sierra_club_propaganda.jpg\" width=\"390\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2013\/10\/sierra_club_propaganda.jpg 390w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2013\/10\/sierra_club_propaganda-117x150.jpg 117w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2013\/10\/sierra_club_propaganda-234x300.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a> It comes from that well-known enemy of personal property rights, the Sierra Club, and it accuses MDU&#8217;s Heskett Station power plant of <strong>killing eight people per year <\/strong>as well as causing a litany of horrible medical problems.\u00a0 It exhorts the recipient to contact Sierra Club shill Wayde Schafer to &#8220;join us in our campaign to encourage Montana-Dakota Utilities to be a good neighbor by transitioning our community beyond coal and investing in clean energy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Riiiiiiiiight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/2013\/10\/catf_propaganda_map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3765\" alt=\"catf_propaganda_map\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/2013\/10\/catf_propaganda_map.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2013\/10\/catf_propaganda_map.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2013\/10\/catf_propaganda_map-150x133.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2013\/10\/catf_propaganda_map-336x300.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>They go on to cite a map from &#8220;non-partisan&#8221; Clean Air Task Force (ahem) which performs the service of putting these scary black circles on a map wherever there&#8217;s a facility generating energy for North Dakotans.\u00a0 Their website indicates that they pretty much hate any power generation that doesn&#8217;t come from a &#8220;renewable&#8221; source, although even they seem to agree that turning corn into ethanol-based gasoline is a disaster.\u00a0 They don&#8217;t like coal, they don&#8217;t like oil, they don&#8217;t like gas, and they&#8217;re motivated by <del>Global Cooling<\/del> <del>Global Warming<\/del> Climate Change\u2122, a phenomenon whose only purported solution is global socialism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/2013\/10\/ala_sota_2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3763\" alt=\"ala_sota_2013\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/2013\/10\/ala_sota_2013.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2013\/10\/ala_sota_2013.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2013\/10\/ala_sota_2013-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2013\/10\/ala_sota_2013-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>Oddly enough, if you go to the American Lung Association&#8217;s website you can find a report that&#8217;s <strong>three years newer<\/strong> (CATF&#8217;s is from &#8220;<em>estimated<\/em> 2010 impacts&#8221;) in their<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stateoftheair.org\/2013\/assets\/ala-sota-2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> 2013 State of the Air report<\/a> (PDF).\u00a0 In it, North Dakota gets phenomenal reviews for its air quality.\u00a0 If you want to pick a group that&#8217;s &#8220;non-partisan&#8221; I suggest looking at the ALA before believing <em>anything<\/em> from a site that won&#8217;t be happy until we&#8217;re one step removed from the stone age.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stateoftheair.org\/2013\/states\/north-dakota\/\" target=\"_blank\">North Dakota&#8217;s data from the report is available at this link<\/a> if you don&#8217;t want to download the PDF.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/2013\/10\/ala_bismarck_honored_2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3762\" alt=\"ala_bismarck_honored_2013\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/2013\/10\/ala_bismarck_honored_2013.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2013\/10\/ala_bismarck_honored_2013.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2013\/10\/ala_bismarck_honored_2013-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2013\/10\/ala_bismarck_honored_2013-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a>It didn&#8217;t take more than a few seconds to find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lung.org\/associations\/states\/north-dakota\/news\/american-lung-association.html\" target=\"_blank\">this release, also from the American Lung Association,<\/a> congratulating Bismarck (which is downwind from Heskett and most of those other nasty black dots on the CATF map most of the time) on receiving an &#8220;A&#8221; grade.\u00a0 From the report:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>&#8220;The State of the Air Report covers eight counties in North Dakota that have permanent air quality monitors: Billings, Burke, Burleigh, Cass, Dunn, McKenzie, Mercer and Oliver. This year\u2019s report looks at data collected from 2009-2011 time period and verified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t sound like the cesspool of black death alleged by the CATF and amplified by the radical hatemongers at the Sierra Club in their propaganda, does it?\u00a0 If you&#8217;re handed stuff like this from extremist liberal groups, take my advice and take whatever they tell you with a grain of salt.\u00a0 Do your own research.\u00a0 It won&#8217;t be hard to find easy refutations to their propaganda.<\/p>\n<p><em>I intentionally used terms like &#8220;radical&#8221;, &#8220;extremist&#8221;, &#8220;hate group&#8221;, et cetera because that&#8217;s what these leftist use to label anyone who disagrees with them.\u00a0 It works both ways, commie.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone gave me this flyer that they were handed outside the federal building on 3rd and Rosser last week: It comes from that well-known enemy of personal property rights, the Sierra Club, and it accuses MDU&#8217;s Heskett Station power plant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=3766\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energytechnology","category-expository","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3766"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3772,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3766\/revisions\/3772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}