Center for Food, Power, and Life
The Center for Food, Power, and Life aims to protect and expand freedom in the vital policy areas of agriculture, energy, and the environment, which we believe will enhance North Carolinians' lives by better access to food, power, and more of life's needs and wants.
How a Billionaire Seeks to Empower Small Farmers
A recent profile in the Colorado Sun documented the journey of farming advocate Stefan Soloviev, who has purchased over 400,000 acres of farmland in and around Colorado. While some may…
Duke’s Worrisome Text
Late afternoon on Thursday, January 4, customers of Duke Energy received a text message alerting them to expected high energy demand the next day and requesting they “take steps to…
How Cooper and Clean Energy Cronies Use Blackouts to Argue for More Blackouts
Amy O. Cooke, retired Locke CEO, wrote a piece yesterday in Carolina Journal discussing the strange take in response to the Christmas Eve 2022 blackouts offered by Gov. Roy Cooper…
Energy Rates in NC Going Up
Duke Energy's move to more "renewable" energy will take a bigger bite of your budget - with no benefit.
Discussing the Costs of North Carolina’s Different Electricity Generating Sources
Electricity from existing power plants is cheapest, and state law lets the cost of building new power plants fall on electricity consumers through increases in their power bills. New solar…
Report Argues Offshore Wind Development Activities Are Killing Whales and Dolphins
On November 2, Save Long Beach Island released a report arguing that offshore wind energy vessel surveys were responsible for the recent spike in whale and dolphin deaths off the…
Gobbling Up Expenses: The Price Tag of a Thanksgiving Feast in 2023
The price of a classic Thanksgiving feast for 10 people in the U.S. is estimated at $61.17 this year, marking a 4.5% drop from last year’s record highs according to…
Measuring the Reliability of North Carolina’s Different Electricity Generating Sources
In determining the reliability of different electricity generation sources, a source's "capacity factor" is a useful measure of how much it produces vs. how much it says it can produce.…
Hog Waste Management in North Carolina: A Freedom-Minded Perspective on Alternatives
Several alternative ways of hog waste management have been studied, but few have been implemented in North Carolina. Currently the state caps damages that property owners can collect in nuisance…
Offshore Wind Costs Are Getting Worse
UPDATE: A press release sent out by Orsted on October 31, 2023, stated that “Following a decision by its Board of Directors, Ørsted will cease development of the Ocean Wind…
New Law Stops North Carolina from Repeating Pennsylvania’s ‘Crazy’ Trucking Mistake
I recently wrote about “How the Budget Stops California from Setting North Carolina’s Transportation Policy.” I described how Gov. Roy Cooper had signed a “Memorandum of Understanding” in 2020 with…
North Carolina Hog Farming: Its Importance, History, and Controversy
Hog farming is an integral part of the agricultural industry in North Carolina, contributing $10 billion in economic output a year. Hog farming in North Carolina dates back to the…