Summaries for: Energy
All Politics is Local, All Land Use is Political – American Coal Online
(American Coal Online has published an article on land use politics, written by Christopher Hopkins, senior vice president for aggregates and mining, and Ben Kelahan, senior vice president for energy, both of The Saint Consulting Group)
By Christopher Hopkins and Ben Kelahan, The Saint Consulting Group
Former U.S. House Speaker Tip O’Neill used to say, “All politics ...
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Financial Times reports Saint Index: Opposition fades to big US land projects
The Financial Times, reporting the findings of the 2010 US Saint Index, noted that the US economic slowdown has increased potential local support for new superstores, hospitals and even power plants. The report, written by Jonathan Birchall in New York, finds that 68 per cent of 1,000 adults surveyed in June by Saint Consulting, which ...
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US Chamber: NIMBY cost energy projects $560 Billion and 250,000 Jobs
A flawed permitting process for energy projects is the main contributor to roughly $560 billion in lost direct and private investment and 250,000 jobs, according to testimony delivered by U.S. Chamber Senior Vice President William L. Kovacs before a joint meeting of the Senate and House Western Caucuses. “The ‘Not In My Back Yard’ folks ...
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Six groups file suit to stop Cape Wind farm project
A legal challenge to the federal approval of Cape Cod’s proposed offshore wind farm has been filed, the first of an expected flurry of lawsuits attempting to stop the construction of the 130-turbine Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound.
Ben Kelahan, Saint Consulting's senior vice president for energy, wrote about the Cape Wind project last January, ...
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US Air Force testing coal-powered airplanes
By Christopher Hopkins
Senior Vice President for Aggregates and Mining, The Saint Consulting Group
As the United States fights to free itself from the burden of foreign oil dependency, a new use for coal is being tested by the United States military. Accelergy, a Houston based company, has developed a fuel that is liquefied clean coal. This ...
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Environmentalists target conservationists over renewables
Environmentalists are notching up the rhetoric against conservationists in a widening battle to win over public support for renewable energy.
As Tim Dickinson writes in the blog Outside Online, "The conservationists fighting renewable-energy development need to wake up and smell the wind and solar power. Now."
He points out that conservationists who have fought developers all their ...
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US Chamber notes Green vs Green gulf over renewables
The US Chamber of Commerce and many of its state-based affiliates appear as ideological conservatives on environment issues. No surprise there. But this same Chamber has drawn attention to energy projects around the country that face a kind of Green versus Green struggle over many clean and renewable energy projects.
The US Chamber's website Project No Project documents energy projects around ...
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Mining industry glimpses light at end of tunnel
By Christopher Hopkins,Senior Vice President, Aggregates and Mining, The Saint Consulting GroupThe end may be in sight for part of the recession that has devastated sections of the mining industry over the past three years. Cemex and Vulcan Materials both recorded increased sales in April and are projected to have a further increase in May, ...
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Pentagon drops objection to huge Shepherd Flats wind farm project
The Pentagon, under strong political pressure, has withdrawn its objections that the huge Shepherd Flats wind farm project in Oregon could interfere with Air Force radar systems, with the Obama Administration apparently agreeing that homeland security concerns shouldn't thwart home-grown renewable energy.
The agreement will allow Caithness Energy to proceed with the 845-megawatt, $2 billion Shepherds Flat ...
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Attitudes about nuclear power changing
By Ben Kelahan
Senior Vice President for Energy
The Saint Consulting Group
New poll results illustrate changing attitudes towards nuclear power in the United States.
A total of 74 percent of Americans surveyed said they support nuclear energy and a similar majority of 70 percent said the U.S. should be building more nuclear power plants. Among people ...
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