Fracking fuels hate in Boulder

by amy | 9:12 pm, December 11, 2012

“The function of the Human Relations Commission is to foster mutual respect and understanding and to create an atmosphere conducive to the promotion of amicable relations among all members of the city’s community.” Boulder Human Relations Office
For a community with an “Office of Human Rights” and is home to a university with a multi-million dollar [...]

Hate fuels Boulder fracking debate

by amy | 9:12 pm, December 11, 2012

“The function of the Human Relations Commission is to foster mutual respect and understanding and to create an atmosphere conducive to the promotion of amicable relations among all members of the city’s community.” Boulder Human Relations Office
For a community with an “Office of Human Rights” and is home to a university with a multi-million dollar [...]

Colorado: Xcel’s cash cow

by amy | 6:38 am, October 31, 2012

Last week Minnesota-based Xcel Energy announced that it beat market expectations with third quarter earnings increasing an impressive 18 percent. Colorado’s largest investor owned utility cited hot weather, rate hikes, and lower costs as reasons for its strong 3Q performance.
Colorado (PSCo) outperformed all other Xcel subsidiaries with a 24 percent increase for the third quarter [...]

No such thing as a free lunch or free energy

by amy | 9:03 pm, October 30, 2012

The Independence Institute’s Todd Shepherd, along with this blog, have spent two years covering, and ultimately exposing, what is now the Abound Solar scandal. Understandably, much of the focus is now on Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck’s criminal investigation as well as a Congressional Oversight Committee inquiry into the bankrupt solar panel manufacturer.
Recently released [...]

Spookiness at the DOE

by amy | 7:31 am, October 12, 2012

Instead of figuring out what happened to your tax dollars with the bankrupt Colorado-based Abound Solar (leaving that to Congress and the Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck), the Department of Energy continues to be the PR firm for the Big Green agenda by promoting energy themed pumpkin carving patterns. Give them credit for including nuclear, but [...]

Killer solar panels and the sobering reality of “green” energy

by amy | 3:01 pm, September 21, 2012

More solar panels and wind turbines are not solutions to the eco-left’s obsession with global carbon emission according to a new book from University of California – Berkeley visiting scholar Ozzie Zehner titled Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism.
Zehner said in an interview with the Huffington Post,
‘Alternative energy is [...]

Fun with Fracking…

by amy | 1:06 pm, September 21, 2012

Energy Policy Center Director Amy Oliver Cooke has fun talking energy, especially when wearing a hot pink “Mothers In Love with Fracking” t-shirt. Thanks to Tom Barry of The Villager for this photograph and his article on the American For Prosperity (AFP) event that featured Dick Morris. AFP invited Amy to be the warm up [...]

Disgraced EPA Official Joins Sierra Club

by amy | 3:16 pm, June 29, 2012

The disgraced former EPA regional official forced out after Senator James Inhoff (R-Oklahoma) posted a video of his enforcement philosophy for fossil fuel companies has found a home with the Sierra Club and its anti-coal campaign.
EENews reports:
Al Armendariz will take over leadership of the group’s “Beyond Coal” campaign office for Austin, Texas, on July 15.
He’ll coordinate [...]

Flashback: Drunk on Sunshine

by amy | 4:18 pm, June 28, 2012

A mere seven months ago, the Denver Business Journal quoted Abound Solar President and CEO Craig Witsoe bragging that his thin-filmed cadmium telluride solar panel manufacturing company was the “anti-Solyndra,” referring to the scandalous and abrupt bankruptcy of the California-based thin-filmed manufacturer that saw the FBI raid its luxurious taxpayer-supported headquarters.
Cathy Proctor of the DBJ [...]

CO Solyndra: Pat Stryker’s Abound Solar Goes Bankrupt

by amy | 1:32 pm, June 28, 2012

Pat Stryker’s Abound Solar “will close its doors and file for bankruptcy” next week according to the Department of Energy (DOE) blog. Because the bankruptcy means roughly $70 million in lost taxpayer money, we take no joy in saying that “we told you so.” Back on January 11, 2012, we wrote:
Unfortunately for taxpayers who provided [...]

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