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Now is key – we can’t wait to see the added effects of wind turbines

Subramanian 12 – Meera, Nature article
~[June 20, "The trouble with turbines: An ill wind," Nature.com, http://www.nature.com/news/the-trouble-with-turbines-an-ill-wind-1.10849~]sr-http://www.nature.com/news/the-trouble-with-turbines-an-ill-wind-1.10849%5dsr
Other species at risk include the critically endangered California condors (Gymnogyps californicus) —
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impacts, we might be in a place we don’t want to be."

A substantial increase in wind turbines would kill hundreds of thousands of avians

Driessen 12 – Paul
~[Aug 7, "Wind-energy tax credits fund bird murder; Eagles being sliced back toward extinction," Washington Times, Lexis~]sr
America’s turbines also are sending some of our most important and majestic sovereigns of the
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golden eagles have been killed by Altamont turbines in the past 25 years.

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1NC Shell

A. Link – Failure to promote an all of the above energy policy re-entrenches the government’s role picking winners and losers

The Bismarck Tribune 2012
(Berg: All energy production is good, July 15, 2012, pg. 1Cjoe)
FARGO (AP) - Rep. Rick Berg said the North Dakota attitude is
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by encouraging an all-of-the-above approach to energy.

B. Impact – Government picking winners %26 losers distorts the markets, weakens the rule of law, %26 kills competiveness and job growth

Kathleen Hart 2012
(Obama, environmentalists assail VP candidate Ryan’s energy views, SNL FERC Power Report, August 22, 2012joe)
By picking winners and losers in the energy sector, the "government-as
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losing their jobs - in Solyndra’s case, 1,100 of them."

C. Impact – Government financial incentives fail as a policy option

Ben Lieberman %26 Nicolas Loris 2008
~[July 28, 2008, The Heritage Foundation, Energy Policy and History that Repeats Itself- Beware~]
Bad Idea ~%233: Picking Winners and Losers Among Alternatives During the 1970s and
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record relative to allowing market forces to decide the direction of energy innovation. 

D. Alternative – The United States federal government should terminate all financial incentives for domestic energy production

Representative Paul Gosar 2012
(R-AZ, Rep. Gosar Supports Legislation to End Energy Tax Subsidies; The Energy Freedom and Economic Prosperity Act Ends the Federal Practice of Picking Winners and Losers in the Energy Sector; Congressional Documents and Publications, July 26, 2012joe)
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Congressmen Paul
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-the-above energy plan without subsidizing any form of energy production.

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1NC Shell

The United States Supreme Court should rule that the Posterity Clause requires

~[INSERT RELEVANT PORTIONS OF THE PLAN TEXT~]

Court ruling ensures compliance and change – 4 reasons

Devins 92 – Neal, Professor of Law and Lecturer in Government, College of William and Mary
~[80 Calif. L. Rev. 1027~]
Four things are not in debate, all of which speak to a significant —
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appointed special masters can work with community leaders to forge successful desegregation plans.

There won’t be backlash – CP doesn’t link to elections or politics

Ting 9 – Jan, Professor of Law @ Temple University and Former Assistant Commissioner @ INS
~[June, http://www.cis.org/Transcript/PlenaryPowerPanel~~]cn
And to me that’s sort of a backhanded way, and a much more sophisticated
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If they want to do that, that’s what they’ve got to do.

Posterity Clause ruling on the plan would establish intergenerational standing – key to prevent extinction

Davidson 3 – John Edward, J.D., Professor of Constitutional Law, Pioneer Pacific College; Senior Research Fellow, Constitutional Law Foundation
~["Tomorrow’s Standing Today: How the Equitable Jurisdiction Clause of Article III, Section 2 Confers Standing Upon Future Generations," 28 Colum. J. Envtl. L. 185, LEXIS~]cn
We deplete freshwater aquifers many times faster than nature can replenish them. 4 We
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rights in the absence of any more specific congressional authorization than 1331. 26