U.S. presidential candidate Clinton unveils renewable energy goals
Source: Reuters
U.S. presidential candidate Clinton unveils renewable energy goals
WASHINGTON
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton promised on Sunday to push for a dramatic increase in renewable power production, setting a goal of generating enough clean renewable energy to power every U.S. home within 10 years of taking office.
Clinton, the front-runner for her party's 2016 presidential nomination, also pledged to have more than half a billion solar panels installed nationwide within four years of taking office.
The two goals were the first elements of what she said would be a comprehensive climate-change agenda to be announced over the next few months.
Her campaign said the goals would lead to a 700 percent increase in the nation's installed solar capacity from current levels, and eventually could generate at least one third of all electricity from renewable sources.
Clinton's plans also call for extending federal clean energy tax incentives and making them more cost effective both for taxpayers and clean energy producers, her campaign said.
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What about the lazy ones who may or may not pull in a decent wage?
Seriously, if she is the inevitable one, I'm happy to hear this & please God, may she truly mean business here.
I just wonder if states don't control this & have the power. I mean, in Ohio, with President Obama in office, Gov Kasich halted a pretty amazing renewable energy program for the state. He just pulled the rug right out from underneath us. No doubt on Koch orders. Can a president stop that? And if so, why didn't Obama?
Drill Baby Drill!
How Hillary Clinton's State Department Sold Fracking to the World
A trove of secret documents details the US government's global push for shale gas.
—By Mariah Blake | September/October 2014 Issue
One icy morning in February 2012, Hillary Clinton's plane touched down in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, which was just digging out from a fierce blizzard. Wrapped in a thick coat, the secretary of state descended the stairs to the snow-covered tarmac, where she and her aides piled into a motorcade bound for the presidential palace. That afternoon, they huddled with Bulgarian leaders, including Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, discussing everything from Syria's bloody civil war to their joint search for loose nukes. But the focus of the talks was fracking.
The previous year, Bulgaria had signed a five-year, $68 million deal, granting US oil giant Chevron millions of acres in shale gas concessions. Bulgarians were outraged. Shortly before Clinton arrived, tens of thousands of protesters poured into the streets carrying placards that read "Stop fracking with our water" and "Chevron go home." Bulgaria's parliament responded by voting overwhelmingly for a fracking moratorium.
Clinton urged Bulgarian officials to give fracking another chance. According to Borissov, she agreed to help fly in the "best specialists on these new technologies to present the benefits to the Bulgarian people." But resistance only grew. The following month in neighboring Romania, thousands of people gathered to protest another Chevron fracking project, and Romania's parliament began weighing its own shale gas moratorium. Again Clinton intervened, dispatching her special envoy for energy in Eurasia, Richard Morningstar, to push back against the fracking bans.
The State Department's lobbying effort culminated in late May 2012, when Morningstar held a series of meetings on fracking with top Bulgarian and Romanian officials. He also touted the technology in an interview on Bulgarian national radio, saying it could lead to a fivefold drop in the price of natural gas. A few weeks later, Romania's parliament voted down its proposed fracking ban and Bulgaria's eased its moratorium...snip more
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/09/hillary-clinton-fracking-shale-state-department-chevron
Maybe Joe "Drug Czar" Biden's kid Hunter can come back from his fracking job in Ukraine to lead Rodham-Clinton's new "policy"
Hey life's good when you're in the 1%- You can get kicked out of the Navy for drugs but if your daddies the Drug Czar you just might get a job on the board of a Fracking company!
Joe Biden's Son Hunter Kicked Out of Navy for Cocaine
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/joe-bidens-son-hunter-kicked-out-navy-cocaine-n227811
