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Inherency
The Wind PTC won’t get extended
Frankel Jun 11, 2012 Max Frankel an intern on the energy policy team
at the Center for American Progress. “Vestas CEO Predicts 80 Percent
Drop In U.S. Wind Market If Tax Credit Is Not Extended”
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/06/11/497339/vestas-ceo-predicts-80-percent-drop-in-us-wind-market-if-tax-credit-is-not-extended/
Engel’s announcement  …the end of December.

Not extending the PTC kills the industry
Frankel Jun 11, 2012 Max Frankel an intern on the energy policy team
at the Center for American Progress. “Vestas CEO Predicts 80 Percent
Drop In U.S. Wind Market If Tax Credit Is Not Extended”
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/06/11/497339/vestas-ceo-predicts-80-percent-drop-in-us-wind-market-if-tax-credit-is-not-extended/
The U.S. wind market  …year,” he said.”

Even the anticipation of a disruption is devastating
Frankel Jun 11, 2012 Max Frankel an intern on the energy policy team
at the Center for American Progress. “Vestas CEO Predicts 80 Percent
Drop In U.S. Wind Market If Tax Credit Is Not Extended”
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/06/11/497339/vestas-ceo-predicts-80-percent-drop-in-us-wind-market-if-tax-credit-is-not-extended/
Numerous coalitions, …— on the brink.
Non-permanence of the PTC severely hampers the wind industry
Bolinger et al. November 2007 Ryan Wiser staff scientist at Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory; Mark Bolinger research scientist in the
Electricity Markets and Policy Group at Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory; Galen Barbose  Staff Research Associate in the Electricity
Markets and Policy Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
“Using the Federal Production Tax Credit to Build a Durable Market for
Wind Power in the United States” Electricity Journal Pg. 77 Vol. 20
No. 9 ISSN: 1040-6190 LexisNexis
Though the historical  …two-year PTC extensions.
Plan
The United States federal government should permanently extend the 1.5
cents per kilowatt-hour in 1993 dollars (indexed for inflation)
production tax credit for wind power.

ADV 1 Economy

PTC induced wind development prevents economic decline – four scenarios:

A.      Long-term PTC prevents mass job loss and investor flight

Granholm 12 (Jennifer, former governor of Michigan, visiting public
policy and law professor at UC Berkeley,
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0412/74966.html, Acc: 8/1/12, og)

Except the country could  …for their products.

B.      US wind industry boosts skilled workforce employment

Brown 12 (Lester, environmental analyst, founder and president of the
Earth Policy Institute, “Building an Economy Centered on Wind Energy”,
http://www.motherearthnews.com/renewable-energy/wind-energy-ze0z1204zkon.aspx,
Acc: 8/2/12, og)

Many of the wind turbines  …as the earth itself.

C.      Wind investment key to manufacturing – thousands of jobs in the
most populous regions

Sterzinger and Svreck 4 (George, Executive Director of the Renewable
Energy Policy Project, and Matt, Research Director at REPP, “Location
of Wind Manufacturing”,
http://www.repp.org/articles/static/1/binaries/WindLocatorShort.pdf,
Acc: 8/2/12, og)

Wind, one of the lowest cost  …wind resource.

D.      Tribal wind projects boost rural economies

Masterson 9 (Crystal D., J.D. University of Oklahoma College of Law,
“COMMENT: WIND-ENERGY VENTURES IN INDIAN COUNTRY: FASHIONING A
FUNCTIONAL PARADIGM”, 34 Am. Indian L. Rev. 317, lexis, og)

Wind projects inject  …to attract new industry. n73

Rural underperformance crushes the national economy

Porter et al 4 (Michael E, Professor, Harvard Business School,
“Competitiveness in Rural U.S. Regions:
Learning and Research Agenda”,
http://www.isc.hbs.edu/pdf/EDA_RuralReport_20040621.pdf, Acc: 8/2/12,
og)

The failure of current policies f …challenges rural regions face.

Manufacturing sectors key to the economy – spurs innovation, middle
class progress and macroeconomic stability

Jobs Council 11 (President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness,
http://files.jobs-council.com/files/2012/01/JobsCouncil_2011YearEndReportWeb.pdf,
Acc: 8/2/12, og)

The complacent-about- …fundamentals of economic stability.

Economic crisis causes war–strong statistical support
Royal 10 (Jedediah, director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the
U.S. Department of Defense, Economics of War and Peace: Economic,
Legal, and Political Perspectives, pg 213-215)

Less intuitive is  …ancillary to those views.

Economic Collapse leads to Nuclear War
Walter Russell Mead, NPQ's Board of Advisors, New Perspectives
Quarterly, Summer 1992, p.30
What if the global  …did in the '30s.

ADV 2 Environment
Fossil fuels are wrecking the environment- Only wind can solve
environmental degradation and CO2 emissions
Lago and Pullen 2012 (Carmen Lago, Ana Prades, Yolanda Lechón and
Christian Oltra of CIEMAT, Spain; Angelika Pullen of GWEC, and Hans
Auer of the Energy Economics Group, University of Vienna, May 2012,
“Environmental Issues,” Wind Energy: The  Facts,
http://www.wind-energy-the-facts.org/documents/download/Chapter5.pdf)
The energy supply is  …threat to biodiversity.
Try or die- Environment is on the tipping point- Collapse will be fast
and catastrophic
AFP 6/6 (Agence France-Presse, citing UN study, “Environmental
collapse now a serious threat: scientists,” Raw Story,
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/06/environmental-collapse-now-a-serious-threat-scientists/)
The paper by 22  …according to the study.
No alt causes- Energy production is the key to environmental sustainability
Greenhalg 2002 (Robin Greenhalg, environment researcher and freelance
writer, “Fossil Fuel And It's Impact On The Environment,”  Essortment,
http://www.essortment.com/all/fossilfuelimpa_rhxu.htm)
There is a growing  …mention the land degradation and human illness.

Climate leadership is critical to solve warming – prevents extinction
Purvis. April 2008 (Nigel. “Paving the Way for U.S. Climate
Leadership” http://www.cleanair-coolplanet.org/documents/Purvis_RFF.pdf
8 Sept 2012)
The scientific  …must pursue the following goals:

Warming causes extinction
Tickell, Climate researcher 2008
(Oliver, Climate Researcher, The Gaurdian, “On a planet 4C hotter, all
we can prepare for is extinction”, 8-11, http://www.guardian.co.uk/
commentisfree/2008/aug/11/ climatechange)

We need to get  …a similar hothouse Earth.
Warming makes war and every other impact inevitable
Klare, Hampshire College security studies professor, 6
(Michael, serves on the boards of directors of Human Rights Watch, and
the Arms Control Association, defense correspondent of The Nation
magazine, "The Coming Resource Wars," 3-10-2006,
www.alternet.org/environment/33243?page=entire, accessed 2-7-12)

It's official: the era of  …pace of global climate change.

ADV 3 Wind Competitiveness
Wind development key to competitiveness – other nations are already
using our research to beat us

Fry 8 (Stephen, J.D., University of Colorado Law School, “Note and
Comment: Harvesting the Sky: An Analysis of National and International
Wind Power”, 19 COLO. J. INT'L ENVTL. L. and POL'Y 427, Lexis, og)

Wind is currently the world's most  …international cooperation and stability.

Clean energy development key to US competitiveness and leadership

Wong 9 (Julian L, Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for American
Progress, “Ensuring and Enhancing U.S. Competitiveness While Moving
Toward a Clean-Energy Economy”,
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/07/wong_testimony.html/,
Acc: 8/2/12, og)

The United States  …reestablish our leadership.

Competitiveness decline tanks U.S. hegemony – tech manufacturing is
especially key

Segal 4 (Adam, Senior Fellow in China Studies at the C.F.R. “Is
America Losing Its Edge?”
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/america-losing-its-edge, Acc:
8/2/12, og)

The United States' global primacy  …entrepreneurship at home.

Hegemony prevents global nuclear wars

Ferguson 4 (Niall, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution and Professor,
History, School of Business, New York University and Stanford
University, September-October(“A World Without Power” – Foreign
Policy) http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/3009996.html)

So what is left?  …world disorder.

Solvency
Permanent PTC key to investment, market stability, and planning for wind
DiMugno 28 February 2012 Laura DiMugno writer and editor for the
Huffington Post “Obama's Tax Framework Proposes Permanent Renewable
Energy PTC” http://nawindpower.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.9455
The president's tax framework recognizes that to date, the U.S. has
only provided a temporary PTC for renewable energy - a practice that
has led to instability in the wind and solar industries.¶ This market
volatility … permanent PTC refundable.