Kansas: What an Absolutely Terrible Idea! How Big Climate Tramples the Little Guy

 The people of Kansas -- and the United States -- are supposed to go along with two more 'renewable' energy boondoggles. I'm completely against both for the reasons below. 

Big Climate wants to build another 'renewable' energy project southwest of Wichita. The red rectangle highlights the heads (the "good stuff") of the winter wheat plants. 

The project is another where Big Climate will grab the profits while local people are left with the pollution; and both the United States and the World are left with ever-dwindling farmland for growing food. Keep in mind that from 1776 -- our nation's first 246 years -- we had been self-sufficient in food. We have always fed ourselves and had enough left over to export to other countries. No longer. Since 2022, the United States no longer feeds itself! 

The KWCH-TV Channel 12 story puts the frequently asserted statement to rest that "we only put these projects on land that isn't suitable for farming." 

The headline image immediately above is one of countless incorrect statements on this topic. The accompanying story is wrong based on: every one of the Kansas solar farms I've driven past are locations where the land was previously used for food. If you need further evidence, look at the KWCH photo at the very top. I have outlined the heads (in red) of the wheat plants currently growing on the prospective solar and battery land. The crop will be harvested in June. A solar farm will destroy the ability of the land to grow crops. 

Governor Laura Kelly's Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC) already approved a one-way billion dollar transmission line for wind energy generated in Kansas (where we have to deal with the effects of the windmills and, eventually, the cost of their decommissioning) to Oklahoma and Missouri who will get the energy. Who pays for the (total) $1 billion line? Kansans -- who will get absolutely zero benefit from it! None! Nothing. Nada! FYI: I watched the KCC meeting where the project was discussed. One of the commissioners asked, "What do we say to people who ask us, 'Why do we have to pay for a project from which we get no benefit?'" Everyone on the panel looked back and forth at each other as there was no good answer...because there isn't one. 

Of course Governor Kelly lives in Topeka and the commissioners do their work in northeast Kansas -- none of whom will see the giant windmills, solar panels, industrial batteries, transmission lines, or the other blight associated with these fiascos -- that have caused our electric rates to skyrocket during the her term in office. 

[it is being built in segments, that is why the cost referred to above is ~ $500 million.]

The "little guy" is getting scr---d many times over. 

The alternative energy business is primarily designed to line the pockets of Big Climate and the pockets of their political minions. Please remember this when you go to the polls later this year.