Pickens Plan Media Coverage 8.5.09
Pickens Plan Still Kickin’ – Newsweek – 8/5/09 Pickens Plan Stirs the Debate – Power Engineering – August 2009 Health Care Overseas, T. Boone Pickens Energy Plan – KNPR – 8/5/09 Is Shale Gas the Climate Bill’s New Bargaining Chip? – New York Times – 8/5/09 Over a Barrel – Part 1 – Energy Outlook Continue Reading
Fact of the Day – August 5, 2009
For the fourth consecutive year, the U.S. was home to the fastest-growing wind power market in the world in 2008, according to a report released by the U.S. Department of Energy and prepared by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. American Wind Energy Association Continue Reading
Serving together
Join the Pickens Plan Army and our partners efforts to get the Natural Gas legislation. Talk to your members while they are back in your district. We have four weeks to get their attention. Go to pickensplan.com/action. Continue Reading
Green Bank Gets Initial Thumbs Up from EIA
The Energy Information Agency (EIA), has issued a draft analysis which makes the case for chartering a Green Bank/Clean Energy Deployment Administration. A Green Bank would, according to John Podesta of the Center for American Progress, “enable clean-energy technologies—in such areas as wind, solar, geothermal, advanced biomass, and energy efficiency—to be deployed on a large Continue Reading
Fact of the Day – August 4, 2009
German-owned Nordex USA, Inc., one of the world’s leading manufacturers of wind turbines, has just announced that it will build a manufacturing plant in Jonesboro, Arkansas. The plant is expected to begin producing turbines in 2010 and create approximately 600 jobs. With a typical wind turbine requiring about 8,000 components, that could mean a ripple Continue Reading
Listen to Boone on radio tomorrow
Dear Army: We want to let you know about a couple radio shows Boone will be appearing on tomorrow, August 5. He will be a guest on Taking Stock on Bloomberg Radio at 3:00 pm EDT. Prior to that appearance, he’ll also be on State of Nevada on KNPR at 10:00 am PDT tomorrow morning. Continue Reading
Pickens Plan Media Coverage 8.4.09
A Conversation With T. Boone Pickens – Motley Fool – 8/4/09 Power Play: Clean Coal, Nukes Key to America’s Electricity Future – WSJ Blog – 8/4/09 If You Hated Gasoline at $4 a Gallon, Imagine It at $20: Books – Bloomberg – 8/4/09 Our View: Louisiana’s Success with V-Vehicle Pitch a Strong Sign – Alexandria Continue Reading
The Motley Fool Interviews Boone
The highly regarded financial website MotleyFool.com gave writer Jennifer Schonberger the assignment to interview T. Boone Pickens. She described Boone as “oil tycoon, champion of the Pickens Plan, and chairman of hedge fund BP Capital.” Here is a sampling of the conversation. Renewable energy: Wind and solar are not going to replace crude oil, because Continue Reading
Pickens Plan Media Coverage 8.1.09-8.3.09
Pickens’ Plan Backbone of New U.S. Energy Legislation – Baltimore Business Journal – 7/31/09 Fill ‘er Up with Natural Gas – Grand Junction Sentinel – 8/2/09 Make Way for Drilling – Press & Sun-Bulletin – 8/3/09 COLUMN: Gulf Drilling is a Winning Ticket: Let’s Cash It In! – Destin Log – 8/3/09 BABBLING BROOK: Does Continue Reading
Boone was Right: The World is Running Out of Oil
In a column posted in the U.K. newspaper, The Independent, writer Steve Conner noted that the International Energy Agency (IEA) has determined “global production is likely to peak in about 10 years – at least a decade earlier than most governments had estimated.” Dr Fatih Birol, the chief economist of the IEA, surved Continue Reading