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Barclays and Lightsource bp have committed to a $140 million tax equity transaction slated to finance construction of the 180 MW Prairie Ronde solar project in St. Landry Parish, La.

The deal was led by Barclays’ Sustainable Project Finance team, working in partnership with the bank’s Energy Transition Group, formed last month to advise clients as they explore energy transition opportunities. Barclays acted as the sole external equity investor on the deal.

Lightsource bp plans to build, own and operate the solar farm, where commercial operation is expected to begin later this year. A power purchase agreement is in place with McDonald’s Corporation.

“As members of the St. Landry community, we look forward to delivering affordable clean energy while continuing to expand our investment in Louisiana to help power the state’s low carbon, independent energy future,” says Lightsource bp’s Emilie Wangerman.

“What’s really exciting is commitments like Barclays to sustainable and energy transition financing are also helping boost local economies. The Prairie Ronde project is expected to provide more than $20 million tax revenue to St. Landry Parish public services such as local school systems over the life of the project.”

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When You’re Addressing Idiots You Can Get Away with a Lot

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At left we have John Fetterman talking to people so stupid they’ll believe that it would have been wrong for the British colonists to oppose King George III in the late 18th Century, or for the people of Germany and Italy in the 1930s to stand up against Hitler and Mussolini.  What about the people in today’s dictatorships, i.e., the people in Russia, China, North Korea, or any of the other 50+  authoritarian regimes around the world?

Morons tend to agree with the loudest, most aggressive voice of nationalism, regardless of how little sense it makes.

It’s a great moment of opportunity for Fetterman.

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Carl Sagan and the Suppression of Uncomfortable Ideas

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Seminal astrophysicist Carl Sagan explains why uncomfortable ideas may be banned in religion, they must not be shunned in science.

This is an important concept in American life today, as conspiracy theorists are convinced that climate change denial cannot be considered in scientific circles.

I happened to bring this up in my interview with Dr. V. Ramanathan of the Scripps Institution, who has been amassing data on global warming since the 1970s.  He laughed, and explained, “If I could prove that human activity was not causing temperatures to rise, I’d be be one of the wealthiest and most famous scientists in world history.”

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We Came Incredible Close to Averting the Disaster that Is Donald Trump

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As suggested at left, a great deal of the hardship that has befallen the U.S. was simply bad luck.  Al Gore came within a whisker of victory in 2000, a win that would have forever changed the course of our nation in terms of energy policy, education, healthcare, and international affairs.

If Bernie had become the 2016 nominee, we wouldn’t have had Hillary Clinton telling our country’s most mean-spirited and least-educated people that they were “deplorables,” ushering a criminal sociopath into the White House.

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