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Bode Passes (Natural) Gas to Break Into Wind (Power)

Local Gasoline price in St. Louis (9/16/08)

As what is customary in the public/crisis relations business, news you want to keep low key is provided to the press on a late Friday afternoon - usually after 2pm. This is about when we learned that former Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner Denise Bode was trading the chief con meister job at the Clean Skies Foundation for a similar position with the American Wind Energy Association. No doubt a tool of wind entrepreneur T. Boone Pickens.   Read more: (WSJ: Pickens’s Investors Ask for Exit)

With the fall of natural gas prices; Aubrey McClendon’s Chesapeake Energy holdings liquidated due to margin calls; and with cutbacks in “non essential expenditures,” the handwriting was plainly on the wall that the CSF gig for Bode was just about up. We got to hand it to these people, they are nothing but tenacious. T. Boone was on NBC’s Meet the Press yesterday still pitching his “plan,” even with gasoline at prices we haven’t seen in over a year!

Monday, November 17th, 2008 Chesapeake Energy, Denise Bode, T. Boone Pickens Trackback URL for this entry

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