re: #148 carefulnow

Cap and trade schemes are money-making schemes and not much more.

There is a new carbon trading plan here in California that will exact fees for activities that would actually reduce pollutants going into the air. I’m aware of a proposal to recover methane gas from a landfill, which is now being flared. There’s a company willing to make a very large capital investment to convert the methane to electricity, but the regulators want a ridiculous amount of money because *caveman voice* methane is bad/global warming/ug.

I saw a methane-landfill recovery facility video last year and it seemed pretty interesting. Ironically sometimes certain factions of environmental regulatory groups work against progress in fields that would benefit the environment in the long run. This is also true with some opposing wind farm applications.