Pickens Plan Media Coverage 3.10.10
The Odd Couple – Newsweek.com – 3/9/10 Chu Tells Oil And Gas Industry What It Wants To Hear – Financial Times Blog – 3/10/10 Future Role Of Natural Gas Discussed At Houston Energy Conference – Fort Worth Star-Telegram – 3/9/10 CERA WEEK: Executives Tout Bright Outlook For Shale Gas – Dow Jones – 3/9/10 Letter Continue Reading
Energy Council Urges Congressional Action on Nat Gas
The Energy Council, a consortium of energy-producing U.S. states and Canadian Provinces, has issued a resolution calling on Congress to “favorably consider the provisions of H.R. 1835 and S. 1048, broaden support for alternative fuel tax credits, and provide support for natural gas fueled vehicle projects, as well as long-term, consistent Continue Reading
Dependence on Oil From Unfriendly Countries to Increase
The New York Times is reporting that declining production numbers at Mexico’s national oil company, PEMEX, threatens America’s energy and national security. Total output has dropped from just under 3.5 million barrels a day in 2004 to a projected 2.5 million barrels in 2010, and oil exports to the United States, now 1.1 million barrels Continue Reading
Pickens Plan Media Coverage 3.6.10-3.8.10
Keep on Trucking – Wall Street Journal – 3/8/10 ECO:nomics: Creating Environmental Capital – Wall Street Journal – 3/8/10 Support Nat Gas Act, Pickens Plan – East Valley Tribune – 3/7/10 Electricity Generation: Gas Producers Take On Coal – Fort Worth Business Press – 3/8/10 Clear Skies Ahead For Colorado Clean Energy – GetSolar.com – Continue Reading
Boone on Nat Gas & Wind in the Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal ran a special section on energy earlier this week. As part of that, they did an interview with T. Boone Pickens. Here is an edited version of that conversation: WSJ: Is there real concern about our continuing to depend on imported oil? BOONE: The American people are concerned. I’ve got 1,627,000 Continue Reading
Breakthrough Nat Gas Proposal in Colorado
In another example of the extraordinary amount of natural gas now available for recovery in North America, Governor Bill Ritter of Colorado has announced a legislative proposal which will “require Xcel Energy to sharply reduce pollutants by retiring, retrofitting or repowering Front Range coal-fired power plants by the end of 2017 and replacing them with Continue Reading
Pickens Plan Media Coverage 3.5.10
Pickens: Exploit US Natural Gas, Replace OPEC Oil – CNBC – 3/4/10 Pickens To Develop 500 MW Of Wind Power – Dow Jones – 3/4/10 Boone Pickens: Wind Farm Still on Track – WSJ Blog – 3/4/10 Reporter’s Notebook: Pickens And The Great White North – MarketWatch – 3/5/10 The $62 Million T. Boone Pickens Continue Reading
8 Million 18-wheelers
Boone challenges Washington leadership to convert 18 wheelers to natural gas on CNBC. Continue Reading
Pickens Plan Media Coverage 3.4.10
Disney CEO, Robert Iger, on Corporate Sustainability – Greentech Media – 3/4/10 Video: Anadarko CEO Talks up Nat Gas on ‘Mad Money’ – Houston Chronicle Blog – 3/3/10 Revision Makes Pickens Plan A Lot More Workable – Houston Chronicle – 3/3/10 Forward March: New Villains in Old Story, but Dems Face Own Distractions – ABC’s Continue Reading
Boone on CNBC
T. Boone Pickens appeared on CNBC Thursday morning live from the Wall Street Journal’s Eco-nomic Conference in California. Boone talked about moving “the 8 million 18-wheelers” in the United States from burning imported diesel to running on domestic natural gas. He said that the nation should follow the “Southern California model” which has put a Continue Reading