Please enjoy today’s energy debate watch, a collection of news stories and perspectives about energy, environment and climate related issues. These articles are provided to keep Terra Rossa readers informed about the current public energy debate but are not intended to express the views of the blog. Let us know your thoughts on these articles or tell us about other current items of interest in the comment thread below.
Bush focuses on energy plans
Associated Press, 7.31.08
President George W. Bush says he’s using his last six months in office to push new energy plans that include electricity from coal.
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LA utility wary of California’s emissions strategy
Associated Press, Samantha Young, 7.31.08
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has a storied place in California history.
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Could wind farms cause climate change?
KWCH 12, 7.31.08
Windmills have dotted the Kansas countryside for well over a century. But now a bigger, more powerful breed is sprouting up. Steve Trent is concerned.
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Pelosi’s energy stonewall
Wall Street Journal, 8.1.08
Hell — otherwise known as Congress — has officially frozen over. For the first time since the 1950s, Members will skip town today for the August recess without either chamber having passed a single appropriations bill. Then again, Democrats appear ready to sacrifice their whole agenda, even spending, rather than allow new domestic energy production.
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Drilling and blissful ignorance
Townhall, Charles Krauthammer, 8.1.08
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi opposes lifting the moratorium on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and on the Outer Continental Shelf. She won’t even allow it to come to a vote. With $4 gas having massively shifted public opinion in favor of domestic production, she wants to protect her Democratic members from having to cast an anti-drilling election-year vote. Moreover, given the public mood, she might even lose. This cannot be permitted. Why? Because as she explained to Politico: “I’m trying to save the planet; I’m trying to save the planet.”
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The climate change clock is ticking
The Guardian (UK), Mark Lynas, 8.1.08
The UK is in denial about its real carbon emissions, suggests a report from the Stockholm Environment Institute. The academics conclude that if “outsourced” emissions produced in countries like China on goods which are imported into the UK are included in our total carbon footprint, this country’s total greenhouse gas emissions are 49% higher than currently reported. So we should think twice when blaming the Chinese for emitting the CO2 that is required in the manufacture of our fridges and televisions.
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