Pickens Plan Media Coverage 8.8.09-8.10.09
ALTERNATIVE POWER: Energy Summit Will Help Create Jobs – Las Vegas Review- Journal – 8/9/09 Natural Gas Gets Attention Where Renewables Ruled – Las Vegas Sun – 8/10/09 Harry Reid’s Clean Energy Summit – Huffington Post – 8/10/09 Obama Urged to Back $500 Billion for Energy-Efficient Buildings – Bloomberg – 8/10/09 Dow Corning CEO Stephanie Continue Reading
Boone in the Huffington Post
T. Boone Pickens has a piece in todays’ Huffington Post talking about his relationship with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and their appearance at to days “Clean Energy Summit 2.0” which is being held in Las Vegas. The focus will be the countless ways clean energy can generate the jobs our country needs not just Continue Reading
Watch Boone live at the National Clean Energy Summit today
Dear Army: Later today, Boone will be speaking at the National Clean Energy Summit 2.0 in Las Vegas. There will be a live video stream of the event available on the NCEP website – click here. From the NCEP website: “High-level industry leaders, scientists, policy experts, and public officials, along with citizens and the media, Continue Reading
Podesta talks about Natural Gas, Energy Efficient Buildings on CNBC
John Podesta – former White House Chief of Staff under President Bill Clinton – is the president of the Center for American Progress Action Fund one of the principal organizers of this year’s Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mr. Podesta, in an early-morning appearance on CNBC, talked about two of the major pillars Continue Reading
In Summit Curtain-Raiser Sen. Reid Talks Natural Gas
The day before the opening of the Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) extolled the virtues of while we natural gas as reported in an article in the Las Vegas Sun. Alexandra Berzon wrote that Reid, giving full credit to T. Boone Pickens, described himself as “an absolute convert” Continue Reading
Majority Leader Reid & Boone talk “Green Jobs”
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) and T. Boone Pickens will be two of the headliners at the Clean Energy Summit 2.0 to be held in Las Vegas on Monday, August 10. Former President Bill Clinton and former VP Al Gore will themem in a star-studded line-up to discuss the importance of alternative energy in Continue Reading
Fact of the Day – August 7, 2009
“In 2008, natural gas vehicles displaced 250 million gallons of petroleum in the United States. With adequate support, by 2020, that number could grow to 10 billion gallons. Because natural gas is a domestic fuel, funding natural gas vehicles will help lessen our dependence on foreign oil.” David Parker, president and CEO of American Gas Continue Reading
Pickens Plan Media Coverage 8.7.09
Wind Promises Blackouts as Obama Strains Grid With Renewables – Bloomberg – 8/7/09 PERC Launches National Consumer Propane Campaign – Domestic Fuel – 8/6/09 Summit to Address Workforce’s Role in Clean Energy Shift – Las Vegas Sun – 8/7/09 Schwarzenegger Joins Vegas Energy Summit – KVVU – 8/6/09 National Clean Energy Summit 2.0 to be Continue Reading
Fact of the Day – August 6, 2009
“There’s no longer a question about whether the jobs and the industries of the 21st century will be centered around clean, renewable energy… The only question is: Which country will create these jobs and these industries? And I want that answer to be the United States of America.” – President Barack Obama American Wind Energy Continue Reading
Pickens Plan Media Coverage 8.6.09
Clean Skies to Stream Live from National Clean Energy Summit 2.0: Jobs and the New Economy – PR Newswire – 8/6/09 Filing Confirms Kleiner EV-Car Deal – The Deal’s Dealscape – 8/5/09 Google Ventures Emerges as Investor in San Diego’s V-Vehicle Co. – Xconomy San Diego – 8/5/09 V Vehicles: New Investors Include Google Ventures Continue Reading