Is T. Boone Pickens Selling Off Some Wind Turbines?

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Monday October 27, 2008 · 8:44 AM PDT

2008/10/27 · 08:44

It's amazing what you can pick up sitting up at the right luncheon table in New York. The herb-crusted halibut and fingerling potatoes had just hit our plates and we were waiting for Boone Pickens to give the keynote at Chadbourne & Parke's Green Business Summit II at the New York Hilton.

Pickens was the big draw thanks to tens of millions of dollars he been pouring into a campaign promoting -- what else -- the Pickens Plan.

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Wednesday October 15, 2008 · 9:57 AM PDT

2008/10/15 · 09:57

Florida today is releasing its plan of action to address climate change, and the news is good and big.

Fifty separate policy recommendations pave the way for Florida to realize $28 billion in net economic savings between now and 2025, and to significantly reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. The report's executive summary, posted today here, calculates that emissions would be reduced 64% from business-as-usual projections by 2025 if all fifty policy recommendations are implemented. That translates into a 51% reduction of emissions below 2005 levels, and a 33% reduction below 1990 levels. The reductions blow past the targets Governor Crist asked the Action Team to hit.

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Thursday September 18, 2008 · 7:47 AM PDT

2008/09/18 · 07:47

The Berkeley City Council unanimously approved a measure on Tuesday night to fund a program providing loans to property owners for the installation of rooftop solar-power systems. The program is the first of its kind in the nation, which creates a new sustainable energy tax district (pdf) within the city.

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Wednesday September 17, 2008 · 1:08 PM PDT

2008/09/17 · 13:08

Senator Chuck Schumer recently showed oil companies what a level playing field looks like -- in Iraq. And he intends to make the Iraqi government contribute to reconstruction costs if they cut deals with oil companies outside the context of a national hydrocarbon law.

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Thursday September 11, 2008 · 6:05 AM PDT

2008/09/11 · 06:05

The Republican Convention chant of "Drill, Baby, Drill!" just acquired an X-rating, with disclosure in a New York Times article that broke today detailing a wide-ranging ethics scandal at the Interior Department.

The investigation also concluded that several of the officials "frequently consumed alcohol at industry functions, had used cocaine and marijuana, and had sexual relationships with oil and gas company representatives."

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Thursday September 04, 2008 · 9:22 AM PDT

2008/09/04 · 09:22

On Day 3 of the RNC, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin took center stage -- along with domestic oil drilling.

The drill-here, drill-now message poured out all over the convention to the roars of a pumped-up Republican crowd, who spontaneously took up the chant: "Drill, Baby, Drill!" Astonishing.

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Wednesday September 03, 2008 · 7:56 PM PDT

2008/09/03 · 19:56

The RNC was in full swing on Day 2. The wrap-up:

President Bush endorsed McCain via satellite (transcript of speech), while Fred Thompson acted as a McCain character witness, with a delivery that pleased party faithfuls, it seems.

Not an ounce of real policy substance. But. Global warming earned its first mention in an RNC speech, albeit scant and meaningless.

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Tuesday September 02, 2008 · 6:17 AM PDT

2008/09/02 · 06:17

An austere, abbreviated and less political RNC kicked off yesterday in Minnesota, as Hurricane Gustav bore down on the Gulf Coast and stole the show.

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Monday September 01, 2008 · 7:26 AM PDT

2008/09/01 · 07:26

Hurricane Gustav has revived the debate over the causal connection between global warming and hurricanes -- just in time for the Republican National Convention. Statistics compiled at Georgia Tech's Earth and Atmospheric Sciences department, reported yesterday by the Associated Press, indicate a sharply worsening trend.

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Friday August 29, 2008 · 5:55 AM PDT

2008/08/29 · 05:55

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo wondered whether investors in coal-burning utilities were being sufficiently well-informed about the risks of where they were parking their money. So he subpoenaed five companies for information -- Xcel Energy, the AES Corporation, Dominion, Dynegy and Peabody Energy.

Were they disclosing the full roster of financial risks -- like the cost of possible future lawsuits or higher operating costs from new regulations that put a price on carbon?

Now a year later, Cuomo has reached a disclosure deal with a first company. Xcel Energy has agreed to give its investors detailed warnings about the risks that global warming poses to its business.

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Tuesday August 26, 2008 · 9:58 AM PDT

2008/08/26 · 09:58

Xcel Energy is retiring two coal-fired plants in Colorado and adding 850 megawatts of wind power and a 200-megawatt solar concentrating power plant -- one of the world's largest -- instead.

It’s the company’s first stab at utility-scale solar. Even better: It’s the first time a utility in America has volunteered to shut down a coal plant (let alone two) to slash greenhouse gas emissions.

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Thursday August 21, 2008 · 6:44 AM PDT

2008/08/21 · 06:44

People opposed to action on global warming use three arguments most often: global warming is not caused by human activities, reducing CO2 will slow economic growth and really it's just an excuse for eco-liberals to create a neo-fascist nanny state to run everyone's life in an irritating and politically correct fashion.

There isn't much I can add to the debate on the first issue, but let's talk about the other two, with the help of the graph above which I found at the Canadian Green Party website.

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