Páginas de referencia:
Institute for Energy Research – Sourcewatch, 05/09/2014 – https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Institute_for_Energy_Research
“The Institute for Energy Research (IER), founded in 1989 from a predecessor non-profit organization registered by Charles G. Koch and Robert L. Bradley Jr., advocates positions on environmental issues including deregulation of utilities, climate change denial, and claims that conventional energy sources are virtually limitless. It is a member of the Sustainable Development Network. The IER’s President was formerly Director of Public Relations Policy at Enron. ”
Institute for Energy Research – Sourcewatch, 05/09/2014 – https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Institute_for_Energy_Research
“In 2009 IER run a campaign on «green jobs» attacking the expansion of renewables energies. IER commissioned three studies on renewable energies and green jobs in Denmark, Germany and Spain.[4] These studies by different think tanks were than promoted by IER and other free market think tanks in the US but also used in Europe[5] and Ontario, Canada.[6] The study on Germany e.g. was translated into German and taken up by German media – without mentioning that the study was financed by IER with its close business links. The German institute that wrote the study (called Rheinisch-westfaelisches Institut fuer Wirtschaftsforschung, RWI) didn’t acknowledge the funding from IER until they were challendged by investigative journalists.[7]»
Institute for Energy Research – Sourcewatch, 05/09/2014 – https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Institute_for_Energy_Research
“A report by the Europan NGO Corporate Europe Observatory tried to get more information on the funding of the libertarian Instituto Juan de Mariana responsible for the Spanish study and the Danish think tank CEPOS doing the study on wind energy in Denmark. The report states: «In their reply to CEO, Instituto Juan de Mariana affirmed that it finances all its activities through the individual donation of his over 250 individual members and that they did not receive corporate funding with the exception of a small Spanish insurance company. When contacted again to check whether the Institute for Energy Research (IER) support for the above study was financial, the Institute stopped responding.»[8]”
Institute for Energy Research – Sourcewatch, 05/09/2014 – https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Institute_for_Energy_Research
“According to the ExxonMobils Corporate Giving Reports the IER received 307.000 US$ from the oil company or its foundation between 2003 and 2007.[9] The institute also received 175.000 US$ from Koch Industries according to a Greenpeace report.[10]»
Institute for Energy Research – Wikipedia, 19/11/2017 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Energy_Research
“IER is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization and is funded by tax deductible contributions from individuals, foundations and corporations.[1][7] IER has received funding from the Brown Foundation (started by founders of a construction and energy company), the Searle Freedom Trust and the Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation.[8][9]They have also previously received funding from ExxonMobil,[10] the American Petroleum Institute,[11] the Center to Protect Patient Rights,[11] and Peabody Energy.[12]IER says that it has not sought for or accepted financial support from the government.[1] IER has been described as a front group for the fossil fuel industry, since it has accepted financial donations from firms in that sector. ”
Institute for Energy Research – Wikipedia, 19/11/2017 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Energy_Research
“The Institute for Energy Research (IER) is a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit organization that conducts research and analysis on the functions, operations, and government regulation of global energy markets.[1] IER maintains that the free market provides the most inexpensive solutions to global energy and environmental challenges.[1].»
Institute for Energy Research – Wikipedia, 19/11/2017 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Energy_Research
«The Institute’s CEO and founder, Robert L. Bradley Jr., is a visiting fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs in London, a research fellow at the Center for Energy Economics at the University of Texas at Austin, and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute.[4][5] He has written seven books, including Capitalism at Work and Edison to Enron.»
Robert L. Bradley, Jr. (2007) – Resourceship: An Austrian theory of mineral resurces – The Review of Austrian Economics 20:63-90 doi:10.1007/s11138-006-0008-7 – Institute for Energy Research
“Economists inside and outside of the Austrian-school tradition have formulated a subjectivist theory of mineral resources. While von Mises (1940) presented a rudimentary theory, institutionalist Zimmermann (1933 and after) provided an in-depth mind-centered approach distinct from the objective, neoclassical theory for minerals developed by Jevons (1865, 1866), Gray (1913), and Hotelling (1931). A full-fledged Austrian theory identifies the fixity/depletionism view of minerals as incompatible with entrepreneurship. Mineral resourceship, praxeologically akin to manufacturing, or the making of capital goods, demotes the distinction between depletable and nondepletable resources for the sciences of human action. Instead of nonreproducibility, the interplay of geography and institutions becomes the locus of mineral-resource theory, given the nonuniform distribution of deposits. An Austrian-institutional theory is more robust for explaining changes in mineral-resource scarcity than neoclassical depletionism, and offers a wide research agenda for current debates over resource production, usage, and future availability.”
Gabriel Calzada – Busting the Myth of Green Jobs (video + mp3)- The Heritage Foundation’s Lehrman Auditorium, 04/05/2009 – http://www.heritage.org/press/events/ev050409c.cfm
«Join Dr. Calzada, along with Institute for Energy Research (IER) economist Robert Murphy, York College (Pa.) professor Tom Bogart, and Heritage energy analyst Ben Lieberman, to explore the lessons of Spain, and examine some of the fundamental flaws in the green jobs-as-an-economic-salve line of argument.”
George F. Will – Tilting at Green Windmills (A Quixotic Pursuit: Green Energy Jobs) – The Washington Post, 25/06/2009 – http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/24/AR2009062403012_pf.html
“The Spanish professor is puzzled. Why, Gabriel Calzada wonders, is the U.S. president recommending that America emulate the Spanish model for creating «green jobs» in «alternative energy» even though Spain’s unemployment rate is 18.1 percent — more than double the European Union average — partly because of spending on such jobs?”
Brendan DeMelle – Institute for Energy Research Admits It Was Behind Anti-Wind Study – Desmogblog, 22/03/2010 – http://www.desmogblog.com/institute-energy-research-admits-it-was-behind-anti-wind-study
“Danish journalists have confirmed that The Institute for Energy Research commissioned and paid for the anti-wind energy study released last year by a Danish think tank that claimed Denmark exaggerates the amount of wind energy it produces (it doesn’t), questioned whether wind energy reduces carbon emissions (it does), and asserted that the U.S. should choose coal over wind because it’s cheaper (it’s not when you count the true costs of coal). The Copenhagen Post reports: “A controversial report critical of the wind energy industry from conservative think tank CEPOS was commissioned and paid for by an American think tank with close ties to the coal and oil industries.” That American think tank is the Institute for Energy Research, which has received $307,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998 and unknown additional sums from other oil and coal industry sources. The Guardian reported last year that the Institute for Energy Research has received recent funding from KBR and trusts set up by Koch Industries, which has multiple ties to IER and its sister organization American Energy Alliance. IER’s President Thomas J. Pyle previously worked as a lobbyist for Koch Industries, while IER’s CEO Robert L. Bradley was formerly Director of Public Relations Policy at Enron, where he served as speechwriter for Enron CEO Kenneth Lay. Pyle, Bradley and IER have direct and indirect ties to a laundry list of dirty energy industry front groups, including the Competitive Enterprise Institute, TASSC, the Cato Institute, the Heritage Foundation and the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. Bradley and the IER have argued that supplies of fossil fuels are virtually limitless, and that American dependence on oil imports from Middle Eastern dictatorships “pose no threat to national security.”
Brendan DeMelle – Institute for Energy Research Admits It Was Behind Anti-Wind Study – Desmogblog, 22/03/2010 – http://www.desmogblog.com/institute-energy-research-admits-it-was-behind-anti-wind-study
“That American think tank is the Institute for Energy Research, which has received $307,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998 and unknown additional sums from other oil and coal industry sources. The Guardian reported last year that the Institute for Energy Research has received recent funding from KBR and trusts set up by Koch Industries, which has multiple ties to IER and its sister organization American Energy Alliance. IER’s President Thomas J. Pyle previously worked as a lobbyist for Koch Industries, while IER’s CEO Robert L. Bradley was formerly Director of Public Relations Policy at Enron, where he served as speechwriter for Enron CEO Kenneth Lay. Pyle, Bradley and IER have direct and indirect ties to a laundry list of dirty energy industry front groups, including the Competitive Enterprise Institute, TASSC, the Cato Institute, the Heritage Foundation and the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. Bradley and the IER have argued that supplies of fossil fuels are virtually limitless, and that American dependence on oil imports from Middle Eastern dictatorships “pose no threat to national security.”.”
Brendan DeMelle – Institute for Energy Research Admits It Was Behind Anti-Wind Study – Desmogblog, 22/03/2010 – http://www.desmogblog.com/institute-energy-research-admits-it-was-behind-anti-wind-study
“IER has railed against green jobs, arguing that oil and gas are better job creators, despite the fact that investment in clean energy technology creates four times as many jobs as investment in oil and gas. IER continues its campaign against wind energy as well, asserting recently that the Obama administration had been “caught red-handed working with Big Wind energy lobbyists.”.”
Brendan DeMelle – Institute for Energy Research Admits It Was Behind Anti-Wind Study – Desmogblog, 22/03/2010 – http://www.desmogblog.com/institute-energy-research-admits-it-was-behind-anti-wind-study
“That American think tank is the Institute for Energy Research, which has received $307,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998 and unknown additional sums from other oil and coal industry sources. The Guardian reported last year that the Institute for Energy Research has received recent funding from KBR and trusts set up by Koch Industries, which has multiple ties to IER and its sister organization American Energy Alliance. IER’s President Thomas J. Pyle previously worked as a lobbyist for Koch Industries, while IER’s CEO Robert L. Bradley was formerly Director of Public Relations Policy at Enron, where he served as speechwriter for Enron CEO Kenneth Lay. Pyle, Bradley and IER have direct and indirect ties to a laundry list of dirty energy industry front groups, including the Competitive Enterprise Institute, TASSC, the Cato Institute, the Heritage Foundation and the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. Bradley and the IER have argued that supplies of fossil fuels are virtually limitless, and that American dependence on oil imports from Middle Eastern dictatorships “pose no threat to national security.”.”
Vaclav Smil (2010) – Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate – AEI Press – ISBN: 9780844743288 – 232 Págs.
“Reseña del editor: Numerous energy-related issues have increased public discussions to the point that energy has become a permanent part of national policy concerns and/or debates…. In his well-researched book, Smil (Univ. of Manitoba, Canada), author of numerous energy-related works, examines the scientific authenticity of information available to the public based on «first principles, basic engineering realities, and simple but revealing quantification» and warns of promoting any simplistic solutions to deep worldwide dependence on fossil fuels. He concludes with an interesting chapter titled «The Pace of Energy Transition,» arguing that it takes more than money and good wishes to replace an existing infrastructure. Smil’s suggestion to reduce energy consumption via increasing energy efficiency in all sectors is hard to challenge.”
David Cronin – Secrecy over funding for climate deniers – David Cronin, 03/10/2010 – http://dvcronin.blogspot.com/2010/10/secrecy-over-funding-for-climate.html
“A publication by CEPOS which questioned if Denmark’s investment in wind power was bringing environmental benefits was supported financially by the Institute for Energy Research (IER) in the U.S. That institute, in turn, had been aided by Koch Industries, while the IER’s president Thomas Kyle had previously worked as a lobbyist for Koch. CEPOS chief executive Martin Agerup has also visited Washington on a trip organised by the IER. Yet when IPS asked Agerup if he had received finance from the fossil fuel industry, he replied “No”. Asked who his main donors are, he added: “We don’t give out that information.” Agerup said that he favours a “free-market approach” to environmental issues.».”
The Problem with Spain’s Green Jobs Model, 23/11/2010 – http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2010/11/23/the-problem-with-spains-green-jobs-model/
“Because the president emphasized Spain, we thought it was important to take a closer look at the Spanish experience. We commissioned a study on Spain and the results were astounding. What was meant to be a green energy revolution in Spain turned out to be an economic disaster. The video below explains why.”
Corporate Europe Observatory – Concealing their sources – who funds Europe’s climate change deniers? – Corporate Europe, December 2010 – http://corporateeurope.org/sites/default/files/sites/default/files/files/article/funding_climate_deniers.pdf
“In their reply to CEO46, Instituto Juan de Mariana affirmed that it ―finances all its activities through the individual donation of his over 250 individual members‖ and that they did not receive corporate funding with the exception of a small Spanish insurance company. When contacted again to check whether the Institute for Energy Research (IER) support for the above study was financial, the Institute stopped responding.”
Corporate Europe Observatory – Concealing their sources – who funds Europe’s climate change deniers? – Corporate Europe, December 2010 – http://corporateeurope.org/sites/default/files/sites/default/files/files/article/funding_climate_deniers.pdf
“In 2009, Calzada wrote a report40 on the impacts on employment of the governmentes policies to support renewable energies. The report, which had substantial flaws41, claimed that for every green job created by government spending on green energy 2.2 jobs were destroyed. The report was in fact commissioned by the US Institute for Energy Research (IER): \Because the president [Obama] emphasized Spain, we thought it was important to take a closer look at the Spanish experience. We commissioned a study in Spain and the results were astounding. What was meant to be a green energy revolution in Spain turned out to be an economic disaster.42. The report was picked up by Calzadaes allies in the US and heavily promoted to attack Obamaes push for green jobs. The IER has received over $300,000 in funding from ExxonMobil43 and also receives money from the Koch industries44. A report by Greenpeace45 showed that groups which had received Koch money, like the Heritage Foundation, Americans for Prosperity, and the American Energy Alliance, were actively disseminating the study. Instituto Juan de Mariana co-sponsored the last sceptic conference organised by the Heartland Institute. Gabriel Calzada was one of the speakers.”
Puneet Kollipara – Energy group, crying political influence, seeks Keystone documents – Fuel Fix, 16/03/2012 – http://fuelfix.com/blog/2012/03/16/energy-group-crying-political-influence-seeks-keystone-documents/
“The Institute for Energy Research filed a Freedom of Information Act Request (or FOIA) with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, requesting copies of communications among it and other federal agencies and certain Nebraska politicians and interest groups concerning the TransCanada Corp. pipeline from Canada’s oil sands to Gulf Coast refineries. “One troubling aspect of the President’s decision is that it appears to have been influenced by political factors and not whether the pipeline is in the national interest,” Dan Simmons, IER director of regulatory and state affairs, said in the FOIA letter.”
Stephen Lacey – Koch Brothers Linked To Anti-Obama Gas Price Ads – Climate Progress, 30/03/2012 – http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/03/30/455360/koch-brothers-anti-obama-gas-price-ads/
“The group launching a $3.6 million ad campaign hitting President Barack Obama on gasoline prices has deep ties to the billionaire libertarian industrialists Charles and David Koch. The American Energy Alliance is the political arm of the Institute for Energy Research, and sources tell POLITICO that both groups are funded partly by the Koch brothers and their donor network. The groups are run by Tom Pyle, a former lobbyist for Koch Industries. Pyle regularly attends the mega-donor summits organized by the Koch brothers, including the 2012 winter summit in Indian Wells, Calif., where the Kochs raised more than $150 million to be directed to groups ahead of the general election.”
Rebecca Leber – Koch-Affiliated Group Campaigns To Make Wind Tax Credit ‘So Toxic’ Republicans Won’t Back It – Climate Progress, 19/10/2012 – http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/10/19/1045661/koch-group-campaigns-to-make-wind-tax-credit-so-toxic-republicans-wont-back-it/
“The wind energy industry faces a lame duck fight in the House of Representatives over extending the expiring production tax credit. The tax credit has broad bipartisan support, and considering that 81 percent of U.S. wind projects are installed in Republican districts, GOP lawmakers have a good reason to support it. But with Koch Industries and fossil fuel groups mobilizing to defeat the credit, its future after 2012 is uncertain. The American Energy Alliance, which has Koch ties, told Politico Pro this week that it aims to make the credit a toxic issue for House Republicans: (Article requires subscription access): “Our goal is to make the PTC so toxic that it makes it impossible for John Boehner to sit at a table with Harry Reid and say, ‘Yeah, I can bend on this one,’” said Benjamin Cole, spokesman for the American Energy Alliance. American Energy Alliance has a strong link to Koch Industries: AEA’s president Thomas Pyle was former director of federal affairs for Koch Industries, and it is affiliated with the Koch- and ExxonMobil-backed Institute for Energy Research. Pyle is a former lobbyist for the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association. AEA is also running a half-million-dollar TV ad in Virginia slamming Obama on coal issues. ”
Tom Zeller Jr. – Energy Secretary Steven Chu Resigns, Chastises Climate Deniers And Clean-Energy Critics – The Huffington Post, 02/02/2013 – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/01/steven-chu-resigns_n_2601964.html
“Daniel Kish, the senior vice president of the free-market Institute for Energy Research, appeared to blame the energy secretary for worsening the recession. «Under his watch, energy consumption in the United States declined by 2.24 percent while our leading economic competitor, China, increased energy consumption by 28 percent,» Kish said in a statement published to the IER website. «Similarly, GDP growth in the United States has limped along at the anemic annual rate of 0.6 percent while China’s economy has soared at the annual rate of 9.12 percent, more than 15 times our own. Clearly, the policies and priorities of Steven Chu’s energy department have benefitted our global competitors and intensified the economic pain felt by millions of unemployed Americans.».”
Case Study: The “Spanish Study” on Green Jobs and Koch Industries – Greenpeace, 27/04/2014 – http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries/case-study-the-spanish-study/
“Where did the «Spanish study» come from, and who promoted it? Several organizations and individuals – each supported through the Koch web – have played key roles in supporting, disseminating and promoting the research. March 2009: The Institute for Energy Research (IER) supported and disseminated the «Spanish study,» released in March of 2009. April 2009: Patrick Michaels was an early commenter on the study, saying in April 2009 that he wasn’t surprised by the findings and that the U.S. should expect similar results from stimulus funding on renewable energy. May 2009: The Heritage Foundation promoted the report in a variety of ways, including a May 2009 Washington, DC briefing. July 2009: Americans for Prosperity’s Colorado chapter promoted the study through its blog. July 2009: Americans for Prosperity’s policy director Phil Kerpen repeated the study’s findings in July 2009 testimony to the Western Caucuses Bicameral Hearing on Cap & Trade. August 2009: American Energy Alliance (AEA), IER’s advocacy arm, incorporated the report’s findings into fact sheets that it disseminated during its «American Energy Express» bus tour which started in August 2009. September 2009: Americans for Prosperity’s Texas chapter posted comments repeating the study’s faulty conclusions. September 2009: Americans for Prosperity’s policy director Phil Kerpen repeated the study’s findings in online comments.”
Attacks on Renewable Energy Standards and Net Metering Policies By Fossil Fuel Interests & Front Groups 2013-2014 – Energy and Policy Institute, 01/05/2014 – http://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/energyandpolicy/pages/99/attachments/original/1400726723/Report-State-Renewable-Energy-Attacks-by-Fossil-Fuel-Front-Groups.pdf?1400726723
“Prominent Front Groups; Americans for Prosperity (AFP); American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC); Americans for Tax Reform (ATR); Beacon Hill Institute (BHI); Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal); Heartland Institute; Institute for Energy Research (IER)/American Energy Alliance (AEA); State Policy Network (SPN).”
Kiley Kroh – 7 Groups Attacking The President’s Plan To Cut Carbon Pollution, Even Though It Hasn’t Been Released Yet – Climate Progress, 30/05/2014 – http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/05/30/3442251/carbon-pollution-rule-attacks/
“U.S. Chamber of Commerce; American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC); Americans For Prosperity (AFP); American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE); National Mining Association (NMA); Heritage Foundation; American Energy Alliance/Institute For Energy Research.”
Suzanne Goldenberg and Helena Bengtsson – Biggest US coal company funded dozens of groups questioning climate change – The Guardian, 13/06/2016 – https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/13/peabody-energy-coal-mining-climate-change-denial-funding
“Peabody’s filings revealed funding for the American Legislative Exchange Council, the corporate lobby group which opposes clean energy standards and tried to impose financial penalties on homeowners with solar panels, as well as a constellation of conservative think-tanks and organisations … The filings also revealed funding for the George C Marshall Institute, the Institute for Energy Research, and the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, which are seen as industry front groups. The names of a number of well-known contrarian academics also feature in the Peabody filings, including Willie Soon, a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Soon has been funded almost entirely by the fossil fuel industry, receiving more than $1.2m from oil companies and utilities, but this was the first indication of Peabody funding. Soon and the Smithsonian did not respond to requests for comment. Richard Lindzen and Roy Spencer, two contrarian scientists who appeared for Peabody at hearings in Minnesota last month on the social cost of carbon, were also included in the bankruptcy filings. Peabody refused to comment on its funding for climate denial groups, as revealed by the bankruptcy filings.”
Robert L. Bradley Jr. – Wikipedia, 29/03/2017 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Bradley_Jr.
“Robert L. Bradley Jr. (born June 17, 1955) is CEO and founder of the Institute for Energy Research, and the author of several books on energy economics. He is also an adjunct scholar of the Cato Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. and a visiting fellow of the Institute of Economic Affairs in London. … Bradley spent nearly 20 years in the business world, including 16 years at Enron, where for the last seven years he was corporate director for public policy analysis and speechwriter for Kenneth L. Lay.[5] His opposition to the company’s so-called «green» energy policy is recounted on his web site PoliticalCapitalism.org … He is the author of seven books on energy history and policy, including The Mirage of Oil Protection (1989); Oil, Gas, and Government: The U.S. Experience (2 vols.: 1996), which has been called «a landmark in regulatory studies»;[8] Julian Simon and the Triumph of Energy Sustainability (2000); Climate Alarmism Reconsidered(2003); and (with Richard Fulmer) Energy: The Master Resource (2004), which Milton Friedman described as a «splendid» book that «effectively debunks the widespread predictions of energy doom.»[9] … Bradley wrote Political Capitalism: A Trilogy, a business history and business best-practices book which documents the rise and fall of Enron. His first book, Capitalism at Work: Business, Government, and Energy (2009), was followed by Edison to Enron: Energy Markets and Political Strategies (2011).[10] Book 3, Political Enron: A Business History, will be published in two parts: Part I (The Rise) in 2016 and Part II (Fall and Aftermath) in 2018. In late 2008, Bradley founded the free-market energy and climate blog MasterResource.[11] As of January 2014, it was ranked a top twenty-five ‘green blog’ by Technorati. ”
Kåre Fog – Is there a hidden agenda? – Lomborg errors – http://www.lomborg-errors.dk/Hiddenagenda.htm
“In October 2010, he wrote several articles in major Danish newspapers urging the government to stop building wind turbine parks. His arguments are based on a report which was written partially by a person who has also been applied first at Lomborg´s Institute of Environmental Assessment and then at Lomborg´s Copenhagen Consensus Center, but who in this case was paid by the American Institute for Energy Research, IER, which is funded more or less by money from the oil industry. Actually the Danish report `disproving´ that 20 percent of the country´s electricity demand is in form wind energy, was ordered secretly by American interests. So here is really something hidden going on, very close to where Lomborg sits in Copenhagen.”
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