About Marita Noon

CFACT policy analyst Marita Noon is the author of Energy Freedom.,

My work here is finished!

CFACT policy advisor Marita Noon announces she is retiring her "Energy Makes America Great!" platform (at least for now), as the election of Donald Trump signifies that the changes she has labored for may soon be coming to pass. On the other hand, maybe she is being groomed for a bigger platform.

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|2016-11-15T16:21:51-05:00November 15th, 2016|7 Comments

America needs to use more energy, not less

There is yet hope that America will choose to capitalize on its massive energy reosurces and keep energy costs down to facilitate competitiveness on the world stage -- a world in which energy costs are almost always higher than they are now in many U.S. states. Cheap, reliable energy is a vital resource for anyone building new manufacturing plants -- and creating the jobs to operate them.

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|2016-11-10T04:43:33-05:00November 8th, 2016|Comments Off on America needs to use more energy, not less

Haiti needs electricity: Hillary gives them a sweatshop

Until Hurricane Matthew hit Haiti nearly a month ago, on October 4, the impoverished island country was out of the headlines—pushed aside by election news. But new emails -- obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the Republican National Committee and then shared with ABC News, then made public on October 11 -- make Haiti part of the U.S. election news, as they highlight the cozy connections between the Clinton Foundation, Hillary Clinton’s State Department, and the Clinton’s cronies. The corruption that has been brought to light is nothing short of scandalous—though, since it’s merely one more such story, few [...]

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|2016-10-31T15:40:56-04:00October 31st, 2016|11 Comments

Get ready to break wind

CFACT energy policy advisor Marita Noon explains how people can stand up to Big Wind and fight against ugly wind farms that kill birds and bats, destroy landscapes, and require subsidies to operate.

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|2016-10-26T10:43:25-04:00October 24th, 2016|5 Comments

WikiLeaks: Hillary’s conflicted comments on fracking

CFACT energy policy advisor Marita Noon reveals how Hillary Clinton has positioned herself on both sides of the fracking issue -- but her campaign for President emphasizes an end to all uses of fossil fuels and a total reliance on so-called "renewable" energy.

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|2016-10-21T12:42:02-04:00October 21st, 2016|1 Comment

OPEC agrees to a production decrease, prices increase—but could be just right

CFACT energy policy advisor Marita Noon reports that, having failed to destroy U.S. oil and gas producers via increasing its own oil production, has now signed an OPEC agreement to cut back production -- largely because the artifically low price of oil was hurting producers worldwide.

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|2016-10-10T13:38:06-04:00October 10th, 2016|Comments Off on OPEC agrees to a production decrease, prices increase—but could be just right

Striking down Obama’s climate legacy has its day in court

CFACT energy policy advisor Marita Noon chronicles the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals hearings on President Obama's signature Clean Power Plan -- which the EPA may well have lacked jurisdiction to implement.

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|2016-10-03T13:03:28-04:00October 3rd, 2016|31 Comments

The Buffalo Billion fraud and bribery scheme

CFACT advisor Marita Noon chronicles the boondoggle that is New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's "Buffalo Billion" initiative, which was designed to feature a SolarCity manufacturing plant. But SolarCity stock has tanked, and the company, of which Tesla owner Elon Musk is a major investor, is facing bankruptcy. More "clean energy" that only cleans out our pocketbooks.

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|2016-09-27T02:28:32-04:00September 27th, 2016|2 Comments

Blame for Ford’s Mexico move falls on Obama Administration

CFACT Advisor Marita Noon notes that Ford is moving its small car manufacturing to Mexico because it cannot produce these vehicles economically in the United States -- but adds that the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards could be revised next year to alter the economics of small-car manufacturing and allow more Americans to drive vehicles they actually want -- more than likely made in America.

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|2016-09-19T12:50:16-04:00September 19th, 2016|5 Comments

Science says fracking not causing increased earthquakes

While the anti-fracking (well, the anti-fossil-fuel) crowd snarkily sought to blame hydraulic fracturing for the recent Oklahoma earthquake, the truth is that wastewater injection wells are the much more likely culprit -- not fracking.

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|2016-09-13T07:56:57-04:00September 12th, 2016|2 Comments

Ethanol is the wrong solution

Ethanol may be a good deal for corn farmers, but it is bad for Gulf fishing and marine life in general, bad for automobile and other engines, bad for the economy, bad for gasoline mileage, and bad for the environment. So why are we still mandating its use in vehicles?

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|2016-09-06T11:40:47-04:00September 6th, 2016|9 Comments

A new international example for bad energy policy

If a country’s goal is to decrease carbon emissions by increasing reliance on renewable energy, it only makes sense to install the new equipment in the location with the best potential—both in geography and government.   For Australia, which has a national Renewable Energy Target (RET) of 33,000 gigawatt hours (GWh) of electricity generated by defined renewable sources by 2020, South Australia (SA) is that place. According to SA Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis, who is also the Energy Minister, the federal government had determined that SA is where “the best conditions for wind farms” could be found. The state government was amenable, [...]

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|2016-08-29T14:57:03-04:00August 29th, 2016|1 Comment

From fracking to flatulence: the all-out assault on methane

CFACT advisor Marita Noon demonstrates the pretentious foolishness of anti-fracking activist Bill McKibben, whose latest hit piece demanding methane controls is based on a single outdated, very biased, study backed by an equally biased reviewer.

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|2016-08-22T12:38:53-04:00August 22nd, 2016|7 Comments

The few, the loud, the anti-fossil-fuel crowd

CFACT Advisor Marita Noon highlights the failure of anti-fracking activists to generate wide-scale support despite flying in super-activist Bill McKibben and spending a boatload of billionaire Tom Steyer's money. Their petition drive has apparently failed to get two vaunted initiatives onto the November ballot there.

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|2016-08-19T11:41:48-04:00August 19th, 2016|1 Comment

The pipeline’s approved; environmentalists are angry.

CFACT advisor Marita Noon shares the good news about the Dakota Access Pipeline project which has won federal approval -- but the fight is not over, thanks to a small band of activists.

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|2016-08-08T13:32:30-04:00August 8th, 2016|8 Comments
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