Western Governors Association Adopts Cleaner Energy Plans for West

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NYT/Reuters: US Governors Adopt Energy Plans for the West
By REUTERS
Published: June 12, 2006

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Governors of states in the U.S. West approved proposals over the weekend to add cleaner energy resources to meet the region's growing demand for electricity and they called for reductions in greenhouse gases linked to global warming.

The Western Governors Association, which represents 19 states and three U.S.-flag islands in the Pacific, passed measures on Sunday that call for 30,000 new megawatts of clean energy supplies such as solar and geothermal power by 2015, and development of cleaner fuels like ethanol and biodiesel and climate change policies for the West.

The resolution on climate change, however, did not lay out specific actions to be taken....

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The measure also urged Congress and the Bush administration to fund research on climate change and to support coordinated international research on the issue....

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The Western governors also called on the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to work with the states to make the regional power grid more efficient and to expand it to tap renewable energy supplies in remote areas.

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/washington/politics-energy-california-environment.html

[Kutjara]

1. I'm sorry, I'm probably just in a very foul mood, but...

...this is such utter and complete shit.

If all these corporate whores (no offense to real, honest, whores) can 'call for' is that we squeeze out an extra 30,000 megawatts of 'energy' (presumably, they mean electricity) in the next nine years, then they deserve to be driven into the desert and given an up close and personal lesson in the meaning of the word 'biodegradeable.'

This is electioneering, pure and simple, and clearly shows the contempt that politicians have for the intelligence of the electorate. All they have to say is, "we are green" and everyone will believe them, global warming will go away, the Earth will be saved, business won't be inconvenienced, and Amurika will continue to be the shining beacon of...whatever this week's bullshit sentimental ideology is...for evermore.

Fuck them. They're scum.