Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Deep Green Resistance (DGR) takes an alternate view on “Green” energy.


And surprisingly it looks as if the City of Lake Worth and the Lake Worth Electric Utility (LWEU) are also taking an ‘alternate view’ of Green energy as well, specifically solar energy and the Residential PACE (R-PACE) program. A Lake Worth City Commissioner said recently the LWEU needs to “stop the bleeding” from this well-intended but deeply flawed program.

And the director of LWEU agreed.

Note that LWEU and FP&L are two entirely separate entities. No doubt FP&L has very deep pockets and therefore is more able to deal with fluctuations and the problems encountered with energy programs promoting solar than the much smaller LWEU is.

Learn more about all this following the information about solar energy from Deep Green Resistance, a radical environmentalist organization with a network in South Florida that is fed up with the likes of the Loxahatchee Sierra Club and EarthFirst! too.


Please Note. The video below may be disturbing for some viewers. You’ve been warned.


And remember, the First Amendment isn’t
just for people you agree with.



Very important: The following blog post is not an endorsement for DGR or for tactics such as “Decisive Ecological Warfare”. But for many of the public in places like Palm Beach County searching for new ideas, disturbed by western sprawl, and disappointed with the leaderless and languishing environmentalist community in South Florida then DGR may be what you are looking for.

Click on this link to find out more about DGR. One of the more outspoken members of DGR is Lierre Keith and over the years she has drawn a tremendous amount of traffic to this blog. Why? Perhaps because within the “radical space” Keith is a most unwelcome voice.

Once again, some may find the
video below very disturbing.


Others may find it provocative. Draw your own conclusions. The video was first posted on this blog in 2014 and many times since. At the 54 second mark in the video a member of DGR says:


“Today we’re going to introduce you to some ideas that you’re probably familiar with as environmentalists. But we might also be talking about some things that are surprising or even shocking to some of you.



Two members [Max Wilbert and Cameron Foley] of Deep Green Resistance talk about green energy alternatives that have created unintended consequences, for example, they mention 1.2 million Tibetans forced to work in Chinese mines, massive strip mining operations all over the planet, pollution, toxic runoff, and enormous amounts of greenhouse gases produced by heavy-duty hauling and digging equipment and the machinery used for mining in the search for rare earth metals, copper, and for the production of steel, and bird deaths at California’s Ivanpah concentrated solar field project. Mr. Wilbert says in the video below,

There is no way to produce industrial technology without industrial devastation. Green technology requires global trade, global exploitation, global destruction of the land, air and the water. You just can’t do it any other way. It’s impossible.

Wilbert and Foley take a sobering view of modern-day environmentalism and call out some groups by name, including the Sierra Club. Although they don’t mention the Anarchist community (EarthFirst!) here in the City of Lake Worth by name, they do talk about their failed pipeline protest in Texas at the 44:00 mark and question whether protesting is getting results or just draining money and resources from other environmental causes.

Once again, Max Wilbert from DGR says in the video:


“. . . we might also be talking about some things that are surprising or even shocking to some of you.”




End of discussion about DGR and solar energy. Very interesting is it not? Has it changed your view of solar energy? If not, then maybe the information that follows will.



Now to Residential PACE program and the City of Lake Worth.



In the YouTube below at the end of this blog post you will see and hear Lake Worth Vice Mayor Andy Amoroso talk about solar energy and R-PACE program. And then a little later in that video Lake Worth Electric Utility Dir. Ed Liberty responds. Liberty is very worried. At this point there are 70–80 properties using PACE in the LWEU service area which includes parts of the Village of Palm Springs and suburban areas as well.

At this point the LWEU is paying 3× more for this energy than can be purchased on the open market. This energy will have to be subsidized by all the other customers of LWEU. Going forward it’s completely unsustainable. An excellent deal for R-PACE program participants but not such a good deal for all their neighbors up and down the street.

Sitting as the Board of Directors of the Lake Worth Electric Utility (LWEU) the Lake Worth City Commission met on January 31st to discuss very important issues with LWEU Director Ed Liberty. Also in attendance were Asst. Dir. Walt Gill, Jason Bailey, Clyde Johnson and others from the staff and organization at LWEU.

In the video below Lake Worth Vice Mayor Andy Amoroso brings up the topic of R-PACE and then LWEU Dir. Ed Liberty responds.


This discussion lasts only a few minutes
but is very eye-opening: