Yearly Archives

2010

Boone Pickens Testifies at Ways & Means

  • April 14, 2010

Click here to read T. Boone Pickens’ full testimony from today before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means. Washington, DC – April 14, 2010 – T. Boone Pickens, energy expert and creator of the Pickens Plan to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil, testified today before the U.S. House of Representatives Continue Reading

Minnesota Home to Pickens Wind Farm

  • April 13, 2010

T. Boone Pickens has found a spot for the 334 GE wind turbines that wouldn’t fit in his garage: 12,000 acres an hour or so south and east of Minneapolis-Saint Paul. Pickens’s Mesa Power Group and General Electric have teamed up to form a joint venture called American Wind Alliance that is financing and supplying Continue Reading

Boone Testifies on Capitol Hill Tomorrow Morning

  • April 13, 2010

Tomorrow, T. Boone Pickens will be testifying before the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means. The topic is “Energy Tax Incentives Driving the Green Job Economy” and all 1.6 million members of the Pickens Plan Army will be at the table with him (in spirit)! Boone will address our nation’s dangerous dependence on OPEC Continue Reading

China Pays $4.5B for Canadian Oil Sands Stake

  • April 13, 2010

Visit www.pickensplan.com/china to read our special report: “Foreign Oil: China has a plan. We don’t.” The Calgary Herald reports that China will pay ConocoPhillips $4.5 billion for a prime swath of the Canadian oil sands. Writer Deborah Yedlin notes that “the Chinese are continuing with their strategy of snapping up natural resources whatever way they Continue Reading

U.S. v China for World Oil

  • April 13, 2010

Visit www.pickensplan.com/china to read our special report: “Foreign Oil: China has a plan. We don’t.” T. Boone Pickens has an op-ed in this morning’s editions of “Politico” a widely-read and highly-regarded newspaper and website in Washington, DC. In his essay, Boone points out that while the United States continues to import two-thirds of our oil Continue Reading

U.S. News & World Report on Nat Gas

  • April 12, 2010

U.S. News & World Report magazine has a section in its current issue looking at various fuel sources from coal to fusion. For each fuel they start with a “claim” and then follow it up with “the reality.” In the natural gas segment, the writer bemoans the lack of natural gas fueling stations for automobiles, Continue Reading

Watch on Wednesday

  • April 11, 2010

Congress invites Boone back to testify on Wednesday about jobs and H.R. 1835, the NAT GAS Act. Continue Reading

Pickens Plan Media Coverage 4.9.10

  • April 9, 2010

The Alternative To The Alternatives – Oil Online – 4/8/10 Gazprom Rocked By Shale Gas? – UPI.com – 4/9/10 Pickens Wind Turbines Coming To Goodhue – Minnesota Star Tribune – 4/8/10 Texas Investor T. Boone Pickens Backs Goodhue Wind Project – Post-Bulletin – 4/8/10 The Future of Energy: Oil – Vermont Public Radio – 4/8/10 Continue Reading

I’m taking you with me to Capitol Hill next week

  • April 9, 2010

Army, The pace of battle is picking up! Next Wednesday, April 14, I will be testifying before the U.S. House of Representatives Ways & Means Committee on the need for Congress to pass the NAT GAS Act. Click on the link below to ask your elected officials to support the NAT GAS Act: https://pickensplan.com/action One Continue Reading

The Natural Gas Century

  • April 9, 2010

Increasingly plentiful supplies of clean burning domestic natural gas have lead an ever larger number of energy analysts to label the decades to come "the natural gas century." Continue Reading