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Brochure to help planners deal with dissenters.
Page 15! "John Bush of Texans for Accountable Government Exposes Agenda 21 to Austin City Council"
Thought he sounded familiar
John and his wife interviewed by Ernest Hancock...
Kudos to John
Showing how it is done. The more I hear about Austin, the less enthused I am about moving to Texas. My past experience with the police state there was enough to stay away.
Now that I have even more friends who will be joining these very folks to create a new society and seeing how their concise message is having an effect it certainly gives me hope.
Never stand down to tyranny. John, you and your wife are two of the ballsiest people I've ever met,PERIOD.
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
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Donate to his Liberty Group T.A.G.
He started Texans For Accountable Government which is the premiere Liberty Orientated Group in Texas.
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this guy
this is the guy from the 2nd amendment protest video in austin that alex jones shows up to late and trys to hijack
john bush seems like a freaking cool dude
"He's this eccentric Ghandi-Like figure that you cant touch with the normal bribes that people respond to."
the man Doug Wead on DR. RON PAUL
Very well spoken
Hello, my name is Andrew Ryan and I'm here to ask you a question: is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?
This guy has about 10 videos up on Daily Paul
No up-votes on any. I just up-voted some. This guy needs more attention. I think he is speaking for most of us.
Here is one about Agenda 21:
My morning cup of coffee
'ain't got nothin' on this man's sobering wakeup call!
Big BUMP! Thanks for posting!
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience"—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
For great justice!
For great justice!
An example of courage
People need more of it. He has a lot more to lose than gain and he still speaks out.
He is speaking for YOU people. You need to be heard and not just listen!
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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My next donation from Revolution Car Badges will go to John Bush for one of his many projects. The video ralph posted below is a must watch.
I'm a serial entrepreneur and liberty activist from Texas!
Wow. Now I know where I've seen this guy before....
Wow he actually reminds me a
Wow he actually reminds me a lot of the Doc in his early days. I've never said that before in my life.
spoken. I've met John Bush before. He seems like a genuine guy. My activism unfortunately pales in comparison to his.
It was a nice touch to see Lee Leffingwell (Mayor) tuck his chin in at the end of JB's speech. That was probably the most excitement they've had all year.
Big Bump
for TEXAS !
Preach it, brother!
Norfolk, VA
Time to INVESTIGATE the investigators of 9/11. PROSECUTE the prosecutors. EXPOSE the cover-up.
Now that was refreshing!
I would've loved to have seen the councils response to the young mans comments. Probably just guilty silence.
"It's not pessimistic, brother, because this is the blues. We are blues people. The blues aren't pessimistic. We're prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark. That's different." ~CW
Way to say it man! That was freakin awesome to see someone standup to them, I love the part when he said "your position of power is crumbling before your very eyes"
I love Austin City Council Meetings.
I'm ashamed of myself for not attending any in the last two years. I need to get more active in my city. This is where the corruption can be quashed. They say all politics are local. All of us should pay more attention and get active in our cities and towns.
They think john bush is one man...
he is not!
He is one million men for EVERY gun in the room.
These old geezers better get with the program and stop being scared to lose their gravy train.
They better start voting with the people or losing their jobs and their cushioned pillows will be the LEAST of their worries. The American people grow tired of tyranny. Whether it be in Austin or Washington, tyranny will be destroyed by the people.
The guns in the room are outgunned. They will understand this now...or later.
its 'cos I owe ya, my young friend...
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9/11 Truth.
Well Said...
...young man...well said.
A breath of fresh air
Amongst the stench.
To my Liberal Trolls:
"Really Don't mind if you sit this one out. Your words but a whisper, your deafness a shout. I may make you feel, but I can't make you think."
Ian Anderson 1972
Every City Needs One
Every city of any size, one hopes, has a couple of these guys. They show up on a regular basis and speak up.
If you're not going to your city council meetings or watching them on cable or internet, you're missing a show. Public comment can be enlightening, and if I needed a disgruntled army for some city battle, that's where I'd go: people who show up to complain.
I was doing this myself for a while, and it was a couple of these guys who were able and happy to tell me where the bodies are buried.
The council would, from time to time, try to stem the flow by cutting down the amount of time available, but there was always eventually backlash when others complained: they have to treat everyone equally.
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Triple Bump +++
"Blind Monopoly acting up" "Emperor has no clothes" but "lots of guns in the room"!
Last name Bush? How ironic!
"If you want something you've never had before, you have to do something you've never done before." Debra Medina
That was fun!
Go, John!
Love or fear? Choose again with every breath.
thanks for posting
i missed that one.
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Document - Turkey/Iraq: Investigation needed into killing of civilians in the Kurdistan region of Iraq
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Turkey/Iraq: Investigation needed into killing of civilians in the Kurdistan region of Iraq
The killing several days ago of an Iraqi Kurdish family of seven, including two women and four children, when the vehicle they were travelling in was attacked in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, reportedly by a Turkish warplane, must be promptly and independently investigated, Amnesty International said today.
In the early afternoon of 21 August 2011 Hussain Mostafa Hassan, a 61-year-old Kurdish farmer from the village of Bolle near Mount Qandil on the Iraq-Iran border, was heading to the town of Rania, accompanied by six members of his family, when the car he was driving was bombed, reportedly by a warplane belonging to the Turkish armed forces. Hussain Mostafa Hassan, his 43-year-old wife, Mer Haci Mam Kak, his daughter Rezan Hussain Mostafa, aged 20, together with her two daughters Sonia Shamal Hassan, aged two, and Sholin Shamel Hassan, aged six months, his son Zana Hussain Mostafa, aged 11, and his niece Oskar Khuzer Hassan, aged 10, all died as a result. Later their burnt bodies were taken to a hospital in Rania and buried the same day.
Since 17 August 2011 Turkish warplanes had been attacking Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) targets in the mountainous regions of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, particularly in the vicinity of Mount Qandil on the Iraq-Iran border. The raids, said to be in retaliation for the killing of 12
Turkish soldiers by the PKK in Turkey, have forced many people to desert their villages.
Iranian troops have also been shelling border areas inside the Kurdistan region of Iraq in recent weeks, apparently targeting strongholds controlled by an Iranian Kurdish armed group, the Party for a Free Life for Kurdistan (PJAK). At least three civilians have reportedly been killed, including a 13-year-old shepherd on 28 July 2011.
Iraqi Kurdish politicians, including Mas'ud Barzani, the President of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, as well as journalists and human rights activists, have all condemned the Turkish air raids. Several demonstrations have also been organized in Sulaimaniya, Erbil and other cities and towns in the Kurdistan region and elsewhere in Iraq to protest against the raid.
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In a sly turn of self-deprecation, Greenville's The Southern Sea launches its first full-length with a track called "These Things Always End Badly," which lyrically bemoans the faulty set-ups of a local stage while the band admits that, as the crowd wants punk rock, "We play quietly/Our set's too short and we lack energy/No lead guitar, no jumping or Flying V's." There's a subtle humor to the song, though, given the optimistically lush sonic soundscape its deft instrumentation and arrangement paints. And this duality—subtly optimistic takes on somber themes—is actually the common thread that strings this delightful indie-pop disc together.
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Vir Int'l Raceway 2014
Round 4 in the Maserati Trofeo World Series, to be run at the Virginia Int'l Raceway, marks Maserati's return to this US circuit.
The first driver to win at VIR, in 1957, was Carrol Shelby. Driving a Maserati 450S, number 98, he managed to complete the 20 laps of a 65 mile race (approx 104 km) and beat the best sports racers of the era. Shelby's fame peaked with his victory in the Le Mans 24 Hour.
Maserati's history in the US is studded with glory; this is testified by the 'Victory Lap' enjoyed by the Maserati 8CTF 'Boyle Special' last May at the famous Indianapolis Motor Speedway, just before the running of the 500. This was a celebration of Wilbur Shaw's consecutive wins, in 1939 and 1940, in the 8CTF. On the day, Johnny Rutherford, three times winner at the Indiana oval, had the honour of climbing behind the wheel. Another landmark was the Maserati 8CTF being registered by the Historical Vehicle Association of the United States as the first non-American production car to earn a permanent place in the annals of the United States Congress Library.
Now, VIR is ready to tell another story, that of the Maserati GranTurismo MC Trofeo that will appear in Virginia for the first time (in 2012 and 2013 the Maserati single-make series was held at Sonoma, California).
The third round in the series, at Silverstone, saw Mauro Calamia take the Trofeo Europa. Now that reigning champion Renaud Kuppens is off the stage, the path is open for a new star to emerge. On this form, the Swiss driver seems the most likely candidate for the title. The man in second overall, Gabriele Gardel, is out of the running, as England was the final meet for him, while Italian Riccardo Ragazzi, after taking two wins at Silverstone, is in with a shout. The same could also be said of Alan Simoni, should his luck turn and he become more consistent.
Year built: 1957
Circuit Length: 5,260 m (3,270 miles)
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A Gift For Ruth
Jessie Massey
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Ruth dabbed the sweat on her forehead with the tattered apron as she hurried to set the table. Her stepfather, Eugene walked into the kitchen and rummaged through the cupboard. Ruth turned and pretended to busy herself with something in the sink. That morning she had been late getting breakfast on the table, and Eugene had been in one of his moods. As usual the penalty was harsh and swiftly meted out. Still, it wasn't the punishment that alarmed her as much as Eugene's forgiveness.


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English Title: ScarecrowEspantapájaros (Scarecrow) (2011) by Dave Koch
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A fan was stabbed during large scale violence before the game while the match was interrupted by several pitch invasions.
Metropolitan Police said hundreds of fans were involved in the disorder before the game between the London neighbours at Upton Park.
One man, said to be aged 44, was stabbed close to the stadium and taken to a hospital.
Police said he was in a stable condition.
"We absolutely condemn all of the disorder that has occurred at Upton Park... both inside and outside of the ground," an FA statement read.
Life bans
"We will very quickly be working with all parties, including the police and clubs to establish the facts," the FA statement continued.
"We expect all culprits to be banned from football for life - they have no place in our game."
West Ham said they would investigate fully the "deplorable" scenes.
"The club will not tolerate the unacceptable behaviour witnessed... and will take the strongest possible action against anyone found responsible, including life bans."
Several hundred fans confronted each other in streets close to the stadium, and police revealed CCTV footage of supporters hurling bottles and bricks at officers outside Upton Park.
Inside the ground, fans of both teams taunted each other, and stewards and police, some of then using batons, struggled to stop West Ham fans getting at the Millwall supporters.
West Ham supporters ran onto the field several times, many of them after their team went ahead in extra time.
The teams walked off the field but returned after a few minutes.
At the end of the game, which the Hammers won 3-1, more of their fans ran onto thefield to celebrate their win, some of them goading the visiting Millwall fans.
Zola shocked
West Ham manager Gianfranco Zola, a former Chelsea star who has spent several years in English football, said he never expected trouble.
"I've been involved in difficult games and things happened. Here, I've played seven years and I've never seen it like this,'' Zola said.
"It's certainly not good for football. I was completely shocked. Totally.
"I knew it was a game that meant a lot for the two sets of supporters, but I didn't imagine it like this. What can I say?
"I'm a sport man. I love the game. I love to go on the pitch and try and make it exciting for the supporters and enjoyable for everybody to watch. This was beyond my powers.''
Millwall manager Jenny Jackett said his team's fans did not run onto the field and he was saddened to hear about the stabbing outside the ground.
"I wasn't aware of the stabbing outside the ground. I'm very sad to hear that,'' he said.
"We've got a passionate game in this country, but when it oversteps the mark then things have to be done.''
Fans invade the pitch as players try to usher them off [GALLO/GETTY]
As spectators left the stadium, police closed off several roads around Upton Park to guide fans towards the local underground station.
Some 200 police in riot gear were near the station backed up by 20 more on horseback.
Police said several hundred fans clashed with officers outside the underground station, throwing a plastic drinks crate, bottles and cans.
Tuesday's violence was the worst in English football for several years.
The domestic game in England has been relatively trouble free after a strong crackdown in the late 1980s that followed some of the worst tragedies to mar the game.
From the 1970s, English fans were responsible for violence all over Europe in club competitions and in major international championships.
But a five-year ban from European competitions following the deaths of 39 people at the 1985 European Cup final in Brussels between Liverpool and Juventus led to strong measures domestically with tough policing and banning orders stopping known troublemakers from going to matches.
Tuesday's violence before the West Ham-Millwall game was not a surprise, however, and the scale of it suggested that it was set up in advance as soon as it was known that the neighbours had been drawn to face each other.
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Yesterday was my first day following Barry's program and I gained .8! I'm not giving up on it yet but was wondering if anyone else had experienced an initial gain with EFGT and if they cut back right away or tried to wait it out? I'm just under 160 and started with the 1500 calorie proportions.
I am new too, just started this week. I do not weigh myself daily, but what are your percentages? Protein & Carbs need to be precise in order to make this work. Also, what fats are you eating? EVCO, Avocado, Butter or EVOO?
I have not joined in on the daily "real housewives thread" yet, but I plan to, because I know that they have been doing this for a while. I know that reading successes others have had on other websites has helped me to desire trying this WOE.
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108 grams fat
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I got nowhere near the carbs (probably around 35) and believe I was under or close on protein (according to my calculations). I was getting pretty nauseous with the sudden increase in fat but did get in a couple of extra Tbs of coconut oil throughout the day. I'm using mostly EVCO and heavy cream for my fats plus animal fats. I also use a little EVOO, mac nut oil and apricot kernel oil on salads and in marinades and sauces. I've been using EVCO to fry in for a while and just love that. I can only think that the dramatic increase in calories may cause a gain for a bit. I'll try to stick it out because this would be a great diet that I would have no problem staying with! I joined the Eleven by Easter thread and am going to try to stay on this until Easter and see how it goes :)
Laney: I would gain on 1500 calories, too. You might cut back on the carbs..I think they are too high.. Barry once told me everyone was different on their carb level and some are at 30..just depends on your body.
Good for you..Sometimes our gallbladder isn't used to dealing with fats..but it will soon kick in.
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A first-of-its-kind exploration of black men and depression from an award-winning journalist
The first book to reveal the depths of black men's buried mental and emotional pain, Standing in the Shadows weaves the author's story of his twenty-five-year struggle with depression with a cultural analysis of how the illness is perceived in the black community—and why nobody wants to talk about it. In mainstream society depression and mental illness are still somewhat taboo subjects; in the black community they are topics that are almost completely shrouded in secrecy. As a result, millions of black men are suffering in silence or getting treatment only in the most extreme circumstances—in emergency rooms, homeless shelters, and prisons.
Standing in the Shadows, addresses what can be done to help those who need it most. In this groundbreaking book, veteran journalist and award-winning author John Head argues that the problem can be traced back to slavery, when it was believed that blacks were unable to feel inner pain because they had no psyche. This myth has damaged generations of African American men and their families and has created a society that blames black men for being violent and aggressive without considering that depression might be a root cause. The author also explores the roles of the black church, the black family, and the changing nature of black women in American culture as a way to understand how the black community may have unwittingly helped push the emotional disorders of African American men further underground.
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A dome with reflective materials and giant magnifying glass will be able to produce enough heat energy .a reflected light that pass through magnefying glass will produce super heat and electricity!
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Hokkaido, Japan's second largest and northernmost island, is known for its beautiful wild nature, delicious seafood, and fresh produce. Now another specialty is taking root: Large-scale megasolar power plants that take advantage of the island's unique geography.
A new renewable energy incentive program has Japan on track to become the world's leading market for solar energy, leaping past China and Germany, with Hokkaido at the forefront of the sun power rush. In a densely populated nation hungry for alternative energy, Hokkaido is an obvious choice to host projects, because of the availability of relatively large patches of inexpensive land. Unused industrial park areas, idle land inside a motor race circuit, a former horse ranch—all are being converted to solar farms. (See related, "Pictures: A New Hub for Solar Tech Blooms in Japan.")
But there's a problem with this boom in Japan's north. Although one-quarter of the largest solar projects approved under Japan's new renewables policy are located in Hokkaido, the island accounts for less than 3 percent of the nation's electricity demand. Experts say Japan will need to act quickly to make sure the power generated in Hokkaido flows to where it is needed. And that means modernizing a grid that currently doesn't have capacity for all the projects proposed, installing a giant battery—planned to be the world's largest—to store power when the sun isn't shining, and ensuring connections so power can flow across the island nation. (See related, "In Japan, Solar Panels Aid in Tsunami Rebuilding.")
Turning to Renewables
Japan historically has had no fossil energy sources of its own; it powered much of its economic growth over the past few generations with homegrown nuclear energy. At the start of 2011, more than 50 reactors provided Japan with 30 percent of its electricity, and the plan was to increase that share to 50 percent. That scenario was upended on March 11, 2011, when the most powerful earthquake ever to shake Japan touched off a tsunami that breached the defenses of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on the east coast. (See related, "One Year After Fukushima, Japan Faces Shortages of Energy, Trust.")
The second-worst nuclear energy accident in history displaced 70,000 people and saddled the nation with a long and difficult cleanup. (See Pictures: The Nuclear Cleanup Struggle at Fukushima.") The scope of the disaster was driven home for the Japanese people in recent weeks, when the plant operator acknowledged that it has been unable to stanch the daily flow of tens of thousands of gallons of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean. (See related, "Fukushima's Radioactive Water Leak: What You Should Know.")
Due to opposition from local officials, all but two of Japan's nuclear power plants are now idle. And although Prime Minister Shinzo Abe supports a nuclear restart, his government also is addressing Japan's needs by administering a renewable energy incentive policy that went into effect last year before he took office: a generous "feed-in" tariff.
Modeled after laws that spurred clean power in Europe, it ensures that generators of renewable energy are paid above-market rates for their electricity. At 42 yen (43 U.S. cents) per kilowatt-hour for solar photovoltaic power, the rate is nearly twice what residential customers pay in Tokyo and is nearly four times the average in the United States.
The policy, launched in July 2012, spurred a diverse array of businesses to get in on the solar energy game. Electronics manufacturers Sharp and Kyocera and trading company Mitsui & Company have major projects open or under way. In July, financial services company Orix said construction has started for a 21-megawatt solar power plant on idle land inside the Tokachi Speedway circuit in Sarabetsu, Hokkaido, in a spot that boasts one of the highest levels of sunlight in Japan. Another banking firm, Japan Regenesis Trust, meanwhile, announced it had started operations of its one-megawatt "Smart Farm" in Urakawa Town, Hokkaido, on 5 acres (2.15 hectares) of land once used to raise horses. A leader in solar drive has been mobile carrier Softbank and its chief executive, the billionaire Masayoshi Son, who has advocated a total phaseout of nuclear power for Japan.
While FIT is available for other forms of renewable energy, more than 90 percent of the 1.662 million kilowatts of renewable energy capacity in Japan (as of February, the most recent tally) was solar, according to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI.) Alternatives like wind and geothermal take much more time and money to develop, and solar does not require the lengthy environmental assessments needed for wind farms. METI statistics show that 11,012 megawatts of nonresidential photovoltaic projects have been approved between the start of the FIT policy and the beginning of this year, nearly half of them certified in February alone. The number likely rose due to a rush of last-minute applications before a 10 percent reduction in the FIT rate went into effect in April.
Domestic photovoltaic module shipments were up 271.3 percent compared to last year, according to the Japan Photovoltaic Energy Association. U.S. research firm IHS predicted the Japanese photovoltaic market would surpass Germany as the largest solar revenue market with 120 percent growth this year, installing more than 5 gigawatts of new capacity, with projects more than 2 megawatts in size being the major driving force behind the triple-digit growth rate. Bloomberg New Energy Finance predicted that such commercial and utility-scale projects would boost solar installations to a range of 6.1 gigawatts to 9.4 gigawatts in 2013, making Japan the largest solar market in the world after China.
Rush on Hokkaido
But there are concerns that dampen the solar euphoria. In April, regional utility Hokkaido Electric Power said its ultra-high-voltage transmission system, onto which large PV systems are interconnected, has received four times as many applications as it could handle. This situation, which has yet to occur in other areas of Japan, highlights the need to revamp Japan's electricity system soon if renewable energy is to maintain its recent momentum.
Japan's electricity system is comprised of ten grids with very limited interconnection. The ten regional utilities enjoy a monopoly on regional power markets, basically operating separate transmission networks independently and rarely supplying electricity to other utilities even if their service areas are adjacent. Further complicating the issue is a mismatch in line frequency: three of the ten grids covering eastern Japan, including Tokyo, use 50 hertz, while the seven covering western Japan use 60 hertz. Only three frequency converter stations are located on the boundary between the two regions, with the ability to convert less than one percent of the nation's power generation capacity.
While the FIT law obligates utilities to provide access to the grids and purchase all of the generated renewable power, there are provisions that allow them to restrict or deny access to ensure the stability of electricity supply. According to a survey of companies involved in solar projects by the Japan Renewable Energy Foundation, 20 percent of the respondents said they were denied access by local utilities due to overcapacity, while 37 percent were told there would be limits to the amount of electricity that the utilities could accept.
With regional utilities planning to put their nuclear power plants back online, there is speculation that grid capacity alone may not be the reason for Hokkaido Electric's decision to limit its purchases of renewable energy. Four of the ten utilities, including Hokkaido Electric, submitted applications this summer to have their nuclear facilities examined for safety review and restart under new guidelines set by the Nuclear Regulation Authority.
All are suffering losses due to skyrocketing fuel prices—mostly for natural gas—while the nuclear stations are out of operation. Paying above-market rates for renewables is an additional cost.
Softbank, which now operates five renewable energy plants and has plans for nine more nationwide, has learned its project to build three large solar power plants in Hokkaido with a combined capacity of more than 180,000 kilowatts is on hold, as Hokkaido Electric hasn't specified which of the applicants will be allowed to connect to the grid. Softbank founder and CEO Son has been openly critical: "There's no point in working to generate solar power if the utilities refuse to connect us," Son said in a video message to the Natural Energy Council in May. "It destroys the fundamental meaning of the (FIT) law."
Experts have also pointed out a sharp discrepancy between the number of applications approved and the number of projects actually started. Only 4 percent of the 11 million kilowatts of large solar facilities that have been approved actually had started operations as of February.
Trade ministry officials attribute the delay to a shortage of equipment due to the sudden burst in demand as well as the need to negotiate the grid access with the regional utility. But some believe that speculators have gotten into the business, applying early just to secure the high FIT price with the plan of reselling the "right to build a PV facility" later, when the government has lowered the official rate per kilowatt-hour. Domestic media report that METI is considering retracting the permits if the applicant fails to launch the business in a set period of time.
World's Largest Battery
To address the issue of integrating solar energy onto the grid in Hokkaido, METI said it has set aside 29.6 billion yen (US$294 million) to install a large storage battery at Hokkaido Electric's Minami Hayakita substation by March 2015 to stabilize the flow of solar power onto the grid. By installing the new battery, expected to be the world's largest with a storage capacity of 60 megawatts, the regional utility will be able to receive an additional 10 percent more electricity. (It would be nearly double the size of the largest battery currently operating in the world, at 36 megawatts, installed in 2012 in China to help integrate renewable energy onto the grid in Zhangbei, Hebei Province.) (See related quiz, "What You Don't Know About Batteries.")
But the installation alone provides no fundamental solution, and the ministry said it "will continue to ask business enterprises to seek locations other than Hokkaido for large-scale solar power plants."
Hiroaki Fujii, executive deputy president of SB Energy, Softbank's group company operating the renewable energy business, said the grid issue is not just the utilities' fault. "The government needs to show what direction it wants to take the nation's energy policy," he said. "Only then can the utilities make plans about future investment and the operators think about profitability and draw up business plans."
Since the Liberal Democratic Party returned to power late last year, Prime Minister Abe's government has dismissed the previous administration's aim to become nuclear-free by the 2030s. While the government launched a study in January to discuss the nation's energy policy, a clear vision has yet to emerge. But responding to public criticism of the utilities' virtual monopoly on the power industry, the Abe cabinet decided in April to separate the transmission division from the utilities beginning in 2018 at the earliest, a move deemed necessary to address the grid issue. The bill requires parliament's approval, however, and it was one of four pieces of administration-sponsored legislation scrapped amid political turmoil in Tokyo in June, when the Diet ended its regular legislative session by passing a nonbinding censure motion against Abe.
Trade Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said he will seek passage of the bill "without fail" in the next parliamentary session, but even if the bill were to be passed and a new power distribution organization established, Fujii warns that it wouldn't help the situation without transparency and a commitment to renewable energy. "There must be open discussion on what role this new transmission company is to play," he said.
The FIT law calls on the Trade Ministry to give "special consideration to the profits of renewable energy suppliers" for the first three years of the new tariff to promote the scheme. Once the current line of projects is completed, there are concerns that this solar boom would not last long, as tariffs would be further lowered and available land would become scarce.
Fujii believes otherwise. "The growth of solar business itself may slow down after three years, but Japan still has other resources, like wind and geothermal, and I don't believe the renewable energy business as a whole will shrink just because the legal provisions expire."
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You are totally right, that registrations by Japan's Industry Ministry METI for renewable energy projects peaked in March 2013 before feed-in-tariffs for solar energy were reduced by about 10% from April 2013.
In April 2013 registrations by METI dropped dramatically: April 2013 and May 2013 registrations under the FIT program were only 1/15th of the March 2013 volume - unless there are other factors in play this seems to demonstrate the enormous effect of feed-in-tariffs on the solar project market and on investors, for graphics and details see: http://www.eurotechnology.com/2013/08/24/are-feed-in-tariff-approvals-drying-up/
I thought the whole power thing was a national emergency and yet, just like in the US, the utilities fight and refuse to grant access to the grid so they can install really expensive power plants and enjoy their government guaranteed return on investment.
The government needs to assume control of the grid or insist on reasonable access.
I just took a drive through rural Japan, and I will report that things ARE changing rapidly. What is getting a lot of press is a few urban/suburban multi-MW scale facilities, but the rooftop revolution is accelerating. New homes seem to all have some panels, but I am seeing a lot of nice (and some ugly) installations on homes and structures throughout rural areas, just in the last couple of months.
Why? Well, the FIT rate has fallen, but every utility in Japan has raised its rates this summer. Most people I know in the US are paying 10 cents or less per kWh, but people in Japan are paying 30 cents or more. It used to be that people could say "solar is for rich people" but interest rates are low, and the financials now go the other way, so "solar is for thrifty people" is the new mantra.
This article could have been a lot more interesting. Rural voters are embracing solar, and rejecting nuclear. Pretty soon, Tokyo will be the only place to put all these nuclear plants. Perhaps that is the way it should be. All the power from Fukushima was going to Tokyo anyway.
The goal should be to have each home or office generate it's own renewable energy and move away from these huge energy distribution systems. As solar panels more efficient I can hear the death knell of the large electrical distribution systems. Of Course utilities will fight this tooth and nail.
Don't say megawatts for energy storage it's megawatt hours.
There are many more issues to consider about this. Electrical deregulation is occurring in Japan even as all of this other nuclear, renewable, and other issues are being resolved. Being a utility worker/manager in Japan USED TO be a boring job. Not anymore.
If Hokkaido stiffs all of these renewable energy providers, then they are creating competitors. Deregulation forces the utilities to find some way to work with them. Therefore, the long-term solution is likely to be energy transmission to the Tohoku grid or some other accommodative solution or storage option.
Another interesting point that the article misses is that the use of solar energy is legislatively mandated, so although it is "expensive", once it is installed to the grid, it becomes the "cheapest" energy available to the utility. It has zero marginal cost. Therefore, utilities have NO disincentive to use as much as they can. Moreover, solar has reached grid parity in many areas of Japan. Peak rates are higher than 30 cents per kWh, and the installed price of solar can beat that.
Anyway, I assure readers that although the article paints a picture of "oops... Japan screwed up", nothing could be further from the truth. Their policies are not perfect, but the rapid growth of renewables will yield important benefits for the future.
The article includes an important factual error. The FIT policy did NOT start after the earthquake. This error was included in a recent Japan Times article, and it it is just plain wrong. Japan was a leader in renewables before 3/11 on the basis of the Kyoto Protocol. The FIT policy started before 3/11, and I know it as a practical fact. I also know that the FIT has been decreasing even as electricity rates have been increasing, so one might infer that the FIT is not the only motivation for the rise of this renewable market.
That's a massive amount of arable land for a country with a large population and limited land. As with wind turbines, the local climate is affected by this land use. Yet "surprisingly" little is mentioned about these negatives. Given the vulcanism in the region, the potential for clean, geothermal energy must far outstrip the potential for solar energy without requiring vast stretches of farmland to be sacrificed.
While this is an interesting and well-researched article, I need to make a technical correction. Solar photovoltaics (PV) represent 90% of the _new_ renewable energy capacity added - that is, in the recent financial year since the feed-in tariff was passed. Japan currently has 27 GW of hydroelectric capacity (much more than PV), and 2.4 GW of wind power.Also, while IHS may have called 2013 for Japan, Mercom Capital and other market researchers are saying that China will be larger, as is BNEF who you cited in the text. Thus the claim of "world's leading market" in the caption is dubious.
Um. If you mean "people will try to get as much money as they can before the rules change" as highlighting the role of feed in tariffs, then you are right.
Of course applications are going to peak before the FIT is lowered. If you can get 42 yen per kWh for the next 20 years of electricity you generate if you make a contract today, but only 38 yen if you sign a contract next month, then you are going to do what you can for that extra 4 yen.
But that is a very backward looking analysis, and it really highlights human nature, not the preferability of a policy. If electricity rates are going to jump 10--15% during the next year, and they are slated to, then people will be paying more than 30 yen per kWh for electricity anyway, which is above the installed price for small solar systems.
What we will see in Japan is the crossing of a threshold. Grid parity. From about September 2013, solar will not be a plaything of investors and yuppies. Misers and skinflints... people who just want to save money... will be increasingly coming to the solar market just to eliminate their electric bills.
@Eric MacLaurin It is so messed up Eric.
Just imagine. You go out and buy a great truck and start a business hauling dirt. Your truck is all paid for and you are earning more profits with that truck than anything else. Someone told you last year that if you did not pay 50000 dollars to upgrade your truck, there is a one in a million chance that it would break.
Well, yours didn't break, but someone else's did because it was hit by an asteroid. Now everyone wants you to stop using your truck, forever.
What do you do? Go buy a new truck? Wait to see if the government will change the rules? Even if the government says it is ok, local protesters might stop you anyway. In the meantime, people start hauling their own dirt with their own solar trucks, and competitors are coming out of the woodwork.
Hokkaido Electric has a legal obligation, but it also has to run a business. And you can imagine that the public are not sympathetic.
Anyway, it is a tense situation, and I am one of the few people who believes that people are genuinely doing their best. Nobody in Japan has made buckets of money for decades. It isn't like that.
Finally, you should know, Eric, that the article is alarmist. Hokkaido is THE ONLY utility in Japan I know of that is backing off. It has an isolated grid (it is an island!) and it has more wide open spaces than any other place in Japan. The Japanese utilities are a DREAM to work with compared to those in the US Southwest. I have read what people have to go through in California, Arizona, and Colorado, and the utilities absolutely screw people who want solar there.
@Bruce Hall Well I believe that if they gave incentives to home owners to a some form of solar collector to their homes then they could distribute the collection of energy over a larger area and feeding it to the grid would happen at every location and restructuring the grid could go at a slower pace if at all.
Japan has a lot of land that can be used. Former industrial sites, recently flooded areas, mountainous areas, recently (lightly ) irradiated areas, and many many rooftops.
It was very little reported that a geothermal plant in Tohoku had an accident just a couple of months before March 11, 2011. It killed one and seriously injured another, which means that geothermal has killed more people than radiation from Fukushima.
But Japan was using geothermal energy longer than white people have been walking around North America, so they understand the benefits and problems. One is that geothermal might affect the rights of hot springs owners in rural areas. The springs are one of the few revenue sources open to many such people, so it is a thorny issue. Vulcanism, which is related to tectonic activity, is also, as one can imagine, prone to instability. Events of the last few years have discouraged geothermal use just about as much as they have discouraged the use of nuclear power in Japan.
In fact, they DO give incentives to home owners by the FIT. And in fact, the "grid problems" that the article drones on about have occurred in Hokkaido, the equivalent of North Dakota in terms of importance to Japan's economy.
The "grid problems", in my opinion, are a contrivance by Hokkaido electric. The "problems" can be solved by patching into Tohoku's grid, with new infrastructure, or using storage means such as hydrogen or batteries or compressed air or what have you.
The story would have been ten times more interesting if it had taken the angle that hesitance over whether to restart nuclear reactors is actually hurting the use of renewables. Hokkaido power does not know its costs, so it can't invest correctly. A dollar is waiting on a dime while people wring their hands over a few perfectly good reactors.
Instead the story made the silly point that some grid problem in Hokkaido is going to keep Japan from doing what it needs to do. As if Japan does not have the will or the means or the brainpower to solve its electrical engineering problems. HA!
@Justin Case @Bruce Hall And before white people used geothermal energy, there were white snow monkeys that taught them to use it by showing them the hot volcanic springs. Nuclear is still the way to go despite the bad press. The worst case scenario has happened and nobody died. If they take what they learned and make upgrades to existing systems there is no reason they shouldn't have nuclear as the primary source of energy again. The nuclear industry is just not as well funded and heavily lobbied as other sources are.
@Justin Case @Ron S @Bruce Hall It is a shame to see large corporations play the lying game. They can be caught out because common sense is all that is required to see their lies. I look forward to the day that solar panels become more efficient and most homes can cut their cords to the large power distribution system. Every home should have a renewable energy power generating system.
@George Zip @Justin Case @Bruce Hall Yes. Monkeys DO use hot springs. They defecate in them too, which is no bueno, muy guano.
I am pro-nuclear in many ways. I don't fault TEPCO for Fukushima. I don't even think the radiation is that dangerous, or that waste is a particular problem.
But I am turning against it. Frankly, I think communities can handle nuclear power, but corporations and politicians can't. I realize that this is the opposite of what most people believe, but that is because most people who support nuclear are scientists. Just because nuclear works and works well does not mean that society can manage nuclear power well.
Fukushima's meltdowns don't bother me any more than a bridge somewhere falling down, but look at the finger pointing, second-guessing, and name-calling! It is terrible. Modern human society cannot handle risk and it is not willing to hedge or insure. If it can't do those things, it should not be building reactors.
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Arkansas' unemployment rate fell for the ninth consecutive month in June to 6.2 percent.
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June's unemployment rate is 1.4 percent lower than a year ago when the rate was 7.6 percent, and 0.2 percent lower than May's rate. It was just above the national unemployment rate in June, 6.1 percent.
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The number of unemployed workers in the state also continued to drop, for the tenth consecutive month, to 81,600 in June. The pool of workers is down 19,200 from the same time a year ago, and is down 2,600 from May.
While the state's unemployment rate and jobless workers continues to decrease, so does its labor force and employed workers.
June's labor force shrunk by 9,300 from May, and is down 19,400 from a year ago. It continues to be at its lowest total in more than five years. The labor force has fallen for three consecutive months.
The state's number of employed workers in June was down 6,700 from in May, and down 200 from this time last year. Like the labor force, the state's number of employed workers and decreased for three consecutive months.
Since June 2013, the state's nonfarm payroll has increased by 17,800. Nine major industries have posted growth and two have seen decreases. Nonfarm payroll jobs are down 5,600 from May. Five sectors saw growth in June from the previous month, one was unchanged and three saw declines.
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•Educational and health services added 3,500 jobs from June 2013. Most of the gains were made in health care and social assistance, 2,200 jobs. The sector was down 2,600 jobs from May.
•Leisure and hospitality ticked up 3,500 jobs from a year ago, as well. The majority of those were seen in food services, 2,900.The sector was up 1,100 jobs from May.
•Manufacturing added, 3,400 jobs from June 2013, mostly in durable goods, 2,400 jobs. The sector was up 1,900 jobs from May.
•Trade, transportation and utilities increased 3,000 jobs from the same time a year ago. Retail saw 2,000 more jobs, and wholesale saw 1,400 more jobs. The entire sector was down 1,000 jobs from May.
•Mining and logging added 200 jobs from this time last year. It's also up 200 jobs from May.
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•Government jobs were down 300 jobs from a year ago and 5,900 from May. State government jobs were down 4,300 jobs from May and up 600 from a year ago. Local government jobs were down 1,700 from May and down 400 from a year ago.
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[AMHERST, NS] ã Non-union employees at the Chignecto-Central Regional School Board (CCRSB) will get a 2.5 per cent raise.
ãThe raise will affect 60 non-union employees,ã said Debbie Buott-Matheson, communications manager at the CCRSB.
Buott-Mathieson said the 2.5 per cent raise will cost a total of $80,000 per fiscal year.
The motion for the pay raise was tabled, and then passed during the regular monthly meeting of the CCRSB Wednesday night at Amherst Regional High School.
Reductions in student enrollment were also tabled at the meeting.
There were 20,954 students in Sept. 30, 2012. Enrollment so far in 2013 is 20,551 for a reduction of 403.
Between Sept. 2011 and Sept. 2012, enrolment was down by 339 students, and there was a reduction of 457 students between Sept. 2010 and Sept. 2011.
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Also tabled at the meeting were financial statements audited by the accounting firm, Grant Thornton.
With revenues of $193,741,633, and expenses of $193,702,392, the 2012-2013 CCRSB fiscal budget showed a surplus of $39,241.
ã$18,000 of that is board funds and $21,000 of that is school-based funds,ã said Gary Clarke, board superintendent, during the meeting.
The board faces a budget reduction of $2.5 million this fiscal year, for a total of $12.8 million reduction over three years.
ãLast year when we balanced that budget, we had to take another 36.7 employees out of our system,ã said Clarke.
ãTaking $12.8 million out of the system over a three year period has been really difficult,ã added Clarke. ãWeãre having difficulty trying to manage the reductions and all the people that entailed."
Clarke said the reduction in revenue has not reduced what people expect from education in the CCRSB region.
ãAll of our system, right across every department, has had to tighten up and reduce,ã he added. ãThe financial pressures cause us to look for efficienciesãÎand when we look for efficiencies we donãt always please everybody.
ãExpectations are still very high but when you take $12.8 million out of the system you canãt keep the system as you always did.ã
Despite the cuts, Clarke said students in the CCRSB are still doing well.
Grade 3 and 6 reading and writing assessment show students in the region at or above the provincial average.
Grade 6 students do lag a little behind the rest of the province in mathematics.
ãWe were two per cent behind the provincial average,ã said Clarke. ãLast year was the first year the math test was written and of course we will look at those results and learn from them and, ultimately, maximize the success of our students in the future.ã