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Pickens Plan Media Coverage 11.21.09-11.23.09

  • November 23, 2009

Smith: Pickens Earns Wealth, Respect – Athens Banner-Herald – 11/21/09 Hargis Inducted into Hall of Fame – The Daily O’Collegian – 11/20/09 Pickens Files Energy Fund Including Renewable Energy with Regulators Across Canada – RenewableEnergyFocus.com – 11/23/09 Continue Reading

Energy Security = New Jobs for America

  • November 20, 2009

Chalk up 1,000 new American jobs to our increased reliance on domestic energy as a Dallas-based company announces plans to build a wind-power blade manufacturing plant here at home. Continue Reading

Fact of the Day – November 20, 2009

New Jersey Clean Cities Coalition’s New Jersey Compressed Natural Gas Refuse Trucks, Shuttle Buses and Infrastructure project will deploy 277 heavy-duty natural gas garbage trucks and shuttle buses and four new CNG fueling stations throughout Newark, Camden, Trenton, Atlantic City, and Egg Harbor Township.  The initiative also includes projects to educate the public about the Continue Reading

Fact of the Day – November 19, 2009

  • November 19, 2009

Wind is the fastest-growing renewable power source in the U.S. “Wind farms” provide electricity to seven million households in 35 states, and use of wind power grows by more than 40% every year. The U.S. wind energy industry installed 8,503 megawatts (MW) in 2008. Currently, wind power provides about 2% of our nation’s electricity; experts Continue Reading

Pickens Plan Media Coverage 11.18.09

  • November 18, 2009

T Boone Pickens Buys Hess Corp., Sandridge Energy Inc, Mcmoran Exploration Co., Transocean Inc., Forest Oil Corp. – Guru Focus – 11/17/09 Continue Reading

Fact of the Day – November 18, 2009

If every American home replaced just one light bulb with an ENERGY STAR® CFL bulb, we would save almost six billion kWh per year—enough energy to light nearly three million homes. We’d also save more than $600 million in annual energy costs and reduce greenhouse gases by the equivalent of nearly 750,000 cars. The average Continue Reading

Pickens Plan Media Coverage 11.17.09

  • November 17, 2009

Pickens Increases Holdings in Natural Gas Producers – Tulsa World – 11/17/09 Pickens Predicts $100 crude in 2010, $300 by 2020 – HeatingOil.com – 11/16/09 MARKET WATCH: Economic Gains, Weak Dollar Boost Energy Prices – Oil & Gas Journal Online – 11/17/09 Exxon Chief: Weak Dollar Drives Oil Higher – MoneyNews.com – 11/17/09 Continue Reading

Rep. Larson & T. Boone Pickens at Ct Town Hall

U.S. Congressman John B. Larson (CT-01), Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, will meet with energy pioneer T. Boone Pickens, and creator of the Pickens Plan, for a public forum at Goodwin College in East Hartford on Tuesday, Nov. 24 from 4-5:30pm. “I am proud to welcome T. Boone Pickens and his mission for an Continue Reading

A Home Run

Boone turns a homecoming town hall to his alma mater Oklahoma State into a rally of the Pickens Plan faithful. Continue Reading

Pickens Plan Media Coverage 11.14.09-11.16.09

  • November 16, 2009

Talking Turkey with T. Boone Pickens – Calgary Herald – 11/14/09 Chesapeake CEO: Finding Natural Gas Support Not Easy, But Necessary – Fort Worth Business Press – 11/13/09 Different Approaches Unite Green Reformers – The UTD Mercury – 11/16/09 Reversal of Fortune in Iraq Oil Fields – The National – 11/14/09 Pickens’ BP Capital Bought Continue Reading