Showing posts with label Susan Collins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Susan Collins. Show all posts

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Distortions about oil boom from Packgen

by DollyMadison

Over the last 2 months, I've read with great interest all the stories about how the Obama Administration and BP were messing up when it came to failing to purchase enough oil containment boom. Turns out that most of those stories weren't true.

In my latest searches for new news about the results of recent real-world trials of Packgen's boom product, I discovered some new and disturbing info to add to my collection of info about how dishonest this company has been.

They were out to get paid for untested oil containment boom before it had ever been approved in any real-world tests as a satisfactory product. They solicited references and praise from Republican elected officials in Maine, and those officials then portrayed the company as one that was not being treated fairly by BP and the Obama Administration. That portrayal is not accurate and was unfair to both BP and Obama.

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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

A Clear difference: setting the Price of Carbon, so WE get a Share

by jamess


Clearly America needs to reach for, and achieve, a Clean Energy Future.

Not so Clear is the Road we will take, if any, to ultimately get there ...


Kerry says Obama intends to move votes on energy
Reporting by Timothy Gardner and Richard Cowan, Editing by Sandra Maler, Reuters -- June 22, 2010

WASHINGTON - [...]
Obama is slated to meet leading Republican and Democratic senators on Wednesday to discuss a way forward for the energy legislation.
[...]
Kerry said the bill must include ways to price carbon but was not "locked into any one single way of doing it."

"The fact is if we don't price carbon, we will create one tenth of the jobs and reduce only one tenth of the emissions," he said. "It would essentially be an energy-only bill."



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