Nader is down with T. Boone. In an open letter sent to McCain and Obama earlier this month, he hailed Boone’s call to replace oil with natural gas for transportation and energy coupled with an incredible investment inwind power from the ‘Saudi Arabia of Wind’ (i.e. east of the Rockies). He does question how Pickens is able to categorize natural [...]
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July 31, 2008
Jill Long Thompon’s “Green Jobs” – adequate ideas on wind and green jobs, but still ignores our coal problem
Jill Long Thompson’s environmental plan for the state lays some necessary groundwork, but ignores the elephant in the room that is coal. First, a few positives.
Packaged as an economic ‘Green Jobs’ initiative, the democratic candidate for governor pledges to commit over $15 million dollars to fund Indiana start-ups focusing on increasing technology energy-efficiency and general [...]
July 31, 2008
The Benton County Wind Farm
Mitch Daniels’ gets little credit around here, but I will give him a nod for the wind farm in Benton County, IN. According to Inside Indiana Business,
When in full operation, the wind farm will be one of the largest wind-power facilities in the world and will generate enough carbon-free electricity to power more than 200,000 [...]
