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To: Brumar89 who wrote (928224)	3/29/2016 6:02:37 PM
From: FJB	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572989

GOOGLE Solar Project to Cost Taxpayers $1.6 Billion... Here’s the story so far, Ivanpah: Is owned by Google, NRG Energy, and Brightsource, who have a market cap in excess of $500 billion Received $1.6 billion in loan guarantees from the Department of Energy Is paid four to five times as much per megawatt-hour as natural-gas powered plants Is paid two to three times as much per megawatt-hour as other solar power producers Has burned thousands of birds to death Has delayed loan repaymentsIs seeking over $500 million in grants to help pay off the guaranteed loans Burns natural gas for 4.5 hours each morning to get its mojo going

To: Brumar89 who wrote (928224)	3/30/2016 1:35:05 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572989

"I love how much fossil fuels environmentalists use going to all these demonstrations and meetings and conferences." You should hate it. Things like the death of Keystone and this wouldn't be happening if people weren't demonstrating. States expand probes into whether Exxon Mobil hid climate change risks Officials are looking into whether Exxon Mobil Corp. misled investors and the public about climate change risks. Michael Phillis Attorneys general from Massachusetts and the Virgin Islands announced Tuesday that they will follow the lead of California Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris and New York Atty. Gen. Eric Schneiderman and launch their own independent investigations into whether Exxon Mobil Corp. misled investors and the public about climate change risks. Massachusetts Atty. Gen. Maura Healey said at a news conference in New York that her office had a moral obligation to act. "Part of the problem has been one of public perception," Healey said. "Certain companies, certain industries, may not have told the whole story." Seventeen states and territories — including Vermont, Maryland, Virginia, Connecticut and the District of Columbia — are working together to explore legal avenues for fighting climate change, said Schneiderman, who led the event. A spokeswoman for Exxon said in a statement that the investigations were baseless. "The allegations leveled against Exxon Mobil again today are politically motivated and based on discredited reporting funded by activist organizations," Suzanne McCarron said. "We are actively assessing all legal options." McCarron said suggestions that the company had reached conclusions about human-caused climate change decades ago and then withheld them from the public are "preposterous." Instead, she said the company's scientists were fully engaged in climate change research, adding that Exxon recognizes the risks posed by a warming atmosphere. Last November, Schneiderman's office subpoenaed Exxon for documents related to its climate change research dating to the 1970s. Schneiderman's office also demanded files concerning business decisions the company made that were influenced by its knowledge of climate change. Schneiderman's subpoena was announced in the aftermath of published reports in the Los Angeles Times and Inside Climate News, which showed that Exxon incorporated climate change research into its business operations while making public statements disputing the very same science. latimes.com