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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (530166)	1/26/2004 9:29:26 PM
From: Krowbar	Respond to of 769667

As if the Repubes haven't handed out enough pork, their energy bill will hand out billions in subsidies to established coal, oil and nuke industries, while cutting funding for renewables. Contrast that to these forward looking leaders.... "Delegates from the Northern Plains states and Manitoba tour sites in Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands to see climate-friendly policies and investments as economic engine. MIDST the acrimony, gridlock and namecalling over national energy policy (or lack thereof) in the U.S. Congress, blackouts in the United States and Canada, and predicted increases in North America's dependence on foreign oil, members of the Great Plains Institute for Sustainable Development (GPISD) recently explored Northern Europe's success in renewable energy diversification. These officials from government, industry, agriculture and the nonprofit sector - representing Minnesota, Iowa, the Dakotas and Manitoba - returned with a compelling message for the Northern Plains (as well as the rest of North America). "The delegation saw wind farms putting increasing levels of power on the grid, biogas operations ably supporting livestock production and farmer cooperatives, and the first hydrogen fueling stations being deployed," said John Goodman, president of Entregis' fuel cell operations based in Chaska, Minnesota. "When you see the technologies working successfully in communities with far less wealth of resources that exist in our region, the question isn't whether we should be doing the same thing - it is how quickly we can adapt and adopt what we learned here." energycentral.com Del