Tournament: Kentucky | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
This is a partnership for the Kentucky tournament, please see our other teams' wikis for cites/speech documents for things we have read previously. All new arguments/cards read at Kentucky will be posted here.

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 2 | Opponent: Northwestern MP | Judge: 

1NC

The United States federal government should maintain restrictions on natural gas production in the Environmental Protection Agency’s New Source Performance Standards and National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants Reviews and require implementation of those restrictions by 2019. The EPA will announce this policy change immediately.

The counterplan delays implementation for 7 years which is the absolute longest it would take to effectively implement regulations – their evidence concludes that solves disruption

ARI 12

Advanced Resources International Inc. report for the American Petroleum Institute, "Estimate of Impacts of EPA Proposals to Reduce Air Emissions from Hydraulic Fracturing Operations, February 2012, "www.api.org/~/media/Files/Policy/Hydraulic_Fracturing/NSPS-OG-ARI-Impacts-of-EPA-Air-Rules-Final-Report.ashx

**RECs = reduced emissions completions – I bolded that part of the card**

On July 28, 2011, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (

AND

the pace and level that would otherwise occur, Figure ES-1.

***Their evidence starts here***

Depending on the REC-Set Use Rate scenario assumed, the following impacts from

AND

with reduced drilling, oil and gas supply services, and indirect employment.

Fracking contaminates groundwater – regulations solve and spur new methane recovery tech innovation

Bullis 12

(Kevin, Senior Editor of Technology Review published by MIT, “Can Fracking Be Cleaned Up?”, June 5, 2012, http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428076/can-fracking-be-cleaned-up/)

Yet even if these chemicals can be dealt with, wastewater remains a challenge.

AND

it will take to make shale gas a sustainable resource," Ulm says.

Horizontal drilling coming now in Kansas – causes groundwater contamination in the Ogallala aquifer

Durban 11

(Eric, Regrettably holds a journalism degree from Missouri, “Fracking's new angle in Kansas”,  December 22, 2011, http://harvestpublicmedia.org/article/937/frackings-new-angle-kansas/5)

 “It’s just now starting here in Kansas. We probably have a handful

AND

is going to go and where the fractures are happening,” Spease said.

Ogallala on the brink now and key to ag productivity – collapse kills productivity and causes massive water shortages

Pierce ‘11

(Charles, contributor to Slate and award-winning journalist for Esquire, “Something We Should Be Worried About But Aren’t: Water”, October 27th http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/ogallala-aquifer-6531527)

Make no mistake. You screw with the Ogallala Aquifer and you screw with this

AND

team that reviewed the permit, called the initial application "laughably deficient."

US ag solves global war from food shortages

ICAF 6

The Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Spring , Final Report: Agribusiness Industry, http://www.ndu.edu/ICAF/Industry/reports/2006/pdf/2006_AGRIBUSINESS.pdf

The Agribusiness Industry Study also took the opportunity to look more broadly at the relationship

AND

which policy makers must ensure is preserved despite the pressures on this sector.

2NC

Accidents now disprove their arg – no shutdown

Denver Post 12

(8/15, 1 dead, 3 hurt in natural gas well explosion near Fort Lupton, www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_21319564/injuries-reported-following-natural-gas-explosion-near-fort)

An explosion at an Encana Corp. natural gas well east of U.S

AND

gas. She said the accident was related to a release of pressure.

Solvency

Net Benefit

Impacts

Nanotech

Ag industry drives research in nanotechnology

The Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Spring 2006, Final Report: Agribusiness Industry, http://www.ndu.edu/ICAF/Industry/reports/2006/pdf/2006_AGRIBUSINESS.pdf

Like many other American industries, agribusiness is doing all it can to keep pace

AND

American agribusiness to continue to play a major role in preserving our national security

Solves extinction, try or die

Lewis, Foresight Nanotech Institute Analyst, 2k2 (James, “Why nanotechnology may be our only hope”, http:~/~/www.foresight.org/Updates/Update51/Update51.4.html#html#BookRev1(%%))

Douglas Mulhall has provided an excellent introduction to the emergence of molecular manufacturing and added

AND

our perilous journey to a molecular age may relegate us to nature's dustbin."

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 2 | Opponent: Nothwestern MP | Judge: 

Reduce means to make smaller

Merriam-Webster – 12, http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reduce

a : to draw together or cause to converge : consolidate reduce all the questions to one

b (1) : to diminish in size, amount, … reservations

d : to make shorter : abridge

Restrictions are legal limitations on an activity

Gerald N. Hill and Kathleen T. Hill – 2005, the Free Dictionary, http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Restrictions

restriction n. any limitation on activity, … the title of each owner.

Tournament: Kentuckty | Round: 2 | Opponent:  | Judge: 

Natural gas expansion massively unpopular with the base

Dicker, 9/4 -~-- energy analyst since 2002 with all the major financial news networks (9/4/2012, Daniel, “Why Isn't Natural Gas an Election Issue?” http:~/~/www.thestreet.com/story/11684440/1/why-isnt-natural-gas-an-election-issue.html?cm_ven=html?cm_ven=GOOGLEN(% style="font-size:7.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt" %) )

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- In last week's acceptance speech, Republican Presidential candidate

AND

obvious to the rest of us who are watching this campaign season unfold. 

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 5 | Opponent: Northwestern OW | Judge: 

1NC

A.     Interpretation

Restrictions are legal limits an activity

Gerald N. Hill and Kathleen T. Hill – 2005, the Free Dictionary, http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Restrictions

restriction n. any limitation on activity,

AND

the title of each owner.

“on” indicates the object affected by the action

American Heritage Dictionary – 2000, http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ON

on  (n, ôn)

prep.

1. a. Used to indicate position above and supported by or in contact

AND

. At the expense of; compliments of: drinks on the house.

Energy production of solar power is the generation of electricity

US EIA (Energy Information Administration) - October 19, 2011, Annual Energy Review 2010, http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/annual/pdf/aer.pdf

Primary Energy Production: Production of primary energy. The U.S. Energy

AND

wood-derived fuels consumption; biomass waste consumption; and biofuels feedstock.

Incentives are direct support for a specific activity

Doris, NREL researcher, 12

(Elizabeth Doris, researcher at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, “Policy Building Blocks: Helping Policymakers Determine Policy Staging for the Development of Distributed PV Markets,” Paper to be presented at the 2012 World Renewable Energy Forum, 5/13-5/17, http:~/~/www.nrel.gov/docs/fy12osti/54801.pdf)

3.3 Market Expansion This stage of policy development targets the development of projects

AND

of the electricity to the grid or the value to the electricity purchaser.

“For” means the incentive must directly influence energy production

WORDS AND PHRASES 04

(Words and Phrases Permanent Edition, “For,” Volume 17, p. 338-343)

 W.D.Tenn. 1942. The Fair Labor Standards Act of

AND

which only “affects” a certain purpose which implies an indirect relation.

2NC

More ev –

Energy.ca.gov – 2012, Glossary of Energy Terms, http:~/~/www.energy.ca.gov/glossary/html

SOLAR POWER - Electricity generated from solar radiation.

Prefer ev specific to solar power - “energy production” is specific to the type of fuel

EIA – no date (accessed 8/28/12), Glossary: production, http:~/~/www.eia.gov/tools/glossary/cfm

Energy production:  See production terms associated with specific energy types.

Barrier reduction is distinct from financial incentives

Elizabeth Doris, Jaquelin Cochran, and Martin Vorum – National Renewable Energy Laboratory (DOE) – Dec 2009, Energy Efficiency Policy in the United States: Overview of Trends at Different Levels of Government, Technical Report, NREL/TP-6A2-46532, http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy10osti/46532.pdf

An overarching characterization of these policies is that of market transformation, defined as permanent

AND

of this type include rebates, subsidies, tax incentives, and grants.

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 5 | Opponent: Northwestern OW | Judge: 

1NC

Text: The United States federal government should incentivize and foster collaboration between U.S. and Chinese solar manufacturers to create jointly owned factories in the U.S. The USFG should create a “Buy American” provision for these incentives.  The US should grant an exception to the tariffs if deployed in US-assembled modules.

The CP solves the case and boosts the US solar industry.

Kenedi, ’12 (Ron, Contributing Editor, “A "Third Way" Approach for U.S.-China Solar Trade,” July 30, 2012, http:~/~/www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2012/07/a-third-way-approach-for-u-s-china-solar-trade?cmpid=com/rea/news/article/2012/07/a-third-way-approach-for-u-s-china-solar-trade?cmpid=rss(% class="MsoHyperlink" %))

Threat of unresolved tariff amounts (that might change in the future) also has

AND

given some of the jobs thus making incentivizing solar power twice as valuable.

China says yes – it’s economically desirable and past precedent proves.

Castelazo, ’12 (Molly, Director of ChinaGlobalTrade.com, “China’s Solar Industry and the U.S. Anti-Dumping/Anti-Subsidy Trade Case,” A Kearny Alliance Project ChinaGlobalTrade.com May 2012, The Kearny Alliance is a non-profit 501 (c) (3). It supports innovative programs in trade, business education, training and applied research.)-mikee

This has been called by some experts a “once-in-a-

AND

– not yet at least – to warrant that kind of capital investment.

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 5 | Opponent: Northwestern OW | Judge: 

1NC

Solar energy mystifies existing consumption practices, greening them to remove guilt for our unsustainable ecological footprint

Byrne and Toly 6

(Josh, director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy and distinguished professor of energy and climate policy at the University of Delaware, Noah, Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Politics and International Relations, Director of Urban Studies Program at Wheaton, “Energy as a Social Project: Recovering a Discourse”, pgs. 1-32 in Transforming Power: Energy, Environment, and Society in Conflict, eds. Josh Byrne, Noah Toly, and Leigh Glover)

In this regard, ironically, Small-is-Beautiful Solar shares with Big

AND

in a way that would seamlessly tie it to the modernization project.20

Consumption practices ensure extinction – cause overshoot and collapse of the environment, only re-organizing society can solve

Smith 11

(Gar, Editor Emeritus of Earth Island Journal, “NUCLEAR¶ ROULETTE¶ THE CASE AGAINST A¶ “NUCLEAR RENAISSANCE” Pgs. 46)

Even if all of the world’s current energy output could be produced by renewables,

AND

.¶ would require the resources of 16 planets—eight planets each. 225

Our alternative is to reject the politics of technological production

Rather than focusing on production of technology, we should embrace our ability to shape and transform our subjectivity as consumers, embracing voluntary simplicity – this debate offers a crucial moment to produce alternative knowledge about everyday living practices

Alexander ‘11

(Samuel, University of Melbourne; Office for Environmental Programs/Simplicity Institute, “

Voluntary Simplicity as an Aesthetics of Existence”, Social Sciences Research Network, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1941087)

The aim of this paper, however, is not to present a thorough analysis

AND

might open up space to ‘think differently,’18 to think otherwise.

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 7 | Opponent: UMKC JW | Judge: 

1NC

Nuclear psychoanalysis medicalizes social relationships creating new modes of domination – their description of social behavior in terms of therapy necessitates mental and physical surveillance and frames social control as action taken “for individuals’ own good”

Chaloupka ’92,

(William, Chair of Political Science @ Colorado State, Knowing Nukes, pgs. 40)

Are we compelled, then, to find something to replace the absent warrior? 

AND

, is to examine Baudrillard's radical suggestion that politics  ends in this age. 

That produces annihilation – their use of nuclear medicine allows us to decide who lives and who dies based upon how we imagine their brains to be structured – their model of biopolitical control ensures extermination of “pathologically diseased” bodies

Foucault ‘78 (Michel, Professor of the History of Systems of Thought at the Collège de France, The History of Sexuality Volume 1: An Introduction, translated by Robert Hurley, p. 135-137)

Since the classical age the West has undergone a very profound transformation of these mechanisms

AND

species, the race, and the large-scale phenomena of population.

Alternative – in the face of nuclear weapons we should refuse metaphysical essences

The alternative finds no inherent meaning in the confrontation with the bomb – this release from the rush to medicalization produces freedom and overcomes new psychological power relations

Chaloupka ’92, (William, Chair of Political Science @ Colorado State, Knowing Nukes, pgs. 66-67)

This objection is more a reminder of our uncertainty about human  control of technology than

AND

they work," rather than for  "what they are." That's deconstruction.

2NC

Their method is flawed – its steeped in confirmation bias and elevates anecdotes into general behavioral laws – refuse it as non falsifiable

Kohut 86

(Thomas, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III Professor of History @ Williams, “Psychohistory as History”, The American Historical Review Vol. 91, No. 2, April 1986, JSTOR)

THE PSYCHOHISTORICAL METHOD has been variously defined and dissected by both the supporters and the

AND

has become a general law, and contemporary data have become historical evidence.

Their methodology is flawed – impossible to measure individual psychological and emotional reactions – their description patterns behavior onto groups, creating social control

Saurette ‘6

(Paul, Associate Prof. of Political Studies @ University of Ottawa, “You dissin me? Humiliation and post 9/11 global politics”, Review of International Studies (2006), 32, 495–522)

Investigating the role of humiliation in global politics is not, however, an easy

AND

even if they were able to correctly analyse them in a group setting.

flawed description of nuclear institutions and decisionmaking means it causes error replication

Blight in ‘87

James Blight, Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University. American Psychologist. Vol 42, Issue 1. 1987.

“Toward a Policy-Relevant Psychology of Avoiding Nuclear War: Lessons for Psychologists From the Cuban Missile Crisis”. APA Psych Articles.

This point cannot be emphasized too much; its unravelling represents the critical thrust of

AND

, psychologically completely unreal, to those who actually manage the nuclear risks.