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Former Vice President Al Gore and musicians Will.i.am (center) and apl.de.ap of the Black Eyed Peas partied at a “green” inaugural ball in Washington, D.C. Monday night. (Photo: Getty Images)
With Chesapeake Energy currently going through difficult economic times, Denise Bode – the former propaganda minister for Aubrey McClendon- jumped ships last year and is now working for an outfit called the American Wind Energy Association. AWEA joined with a number of other environmental groups to sponsor a “green inaugural” event yesterday. Check out the list of groups co-sponsoring the event with AWEA, It’s a regular who’s who in environmental wackoism: Read more…
From Examiner.com:
No, it’s not the Oklahoma Thunder’s cheerleaders and the color of your barf after watching one of their games, its a question the National Journal asked its “energy experts” to comment on recently.
Our own Denise Bode, now the CEO of American Wind Energy Association, was asked to give the organizations response. Here’s an excerpt from her piece: Read more…
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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!
Our hearts really go out to former corporate commissioner and current Clean Skies Foundation CEO and Chesapeake shill Denise Bode. Bode left the corporate commission last year to head Chesapeake’s propaganda organization (Joseph Goebbels would be so proud!) that promotes the use of compressed natural gas or CNG.
Since it’s beginning, the Clean Skies Foundation has been deemed dubious by anyone with a pulse and a temperature of at least 98.6 degrees:
Wall Street Journal 4/26/07
“Chesapeake Energy Corp., founder of a coalition that ran a series of newspaper ads attacking the coal industry for selling a product that is filthy, says the campaign is ending after a round of protests from congressmen and trade associations.But Aubrey K. McClendon, chairman and chief executive of the Oklahoma City-based natural gas production company, says he will continue to battle the coal industry and is setting up a Washington group, the Clean Skies Foundation, to lead it.
The campaign featured a series of somber Hollywood models with smudged faces over a headline that said Face It, Coal is Filthy. The ads, which ran in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and several newspapers serving Capitol Hill, infuriated delegations from coal states and were disavowed by two major trade associations representing natural gas producers.” Read more…
Our sympathies for Ms. Bode are not because she heads this fake public interest group whose only real purpose is to siphon off milk from the public trough. (Hell, we’d write or say whatever McClendon wanted too for the kind of money she purportedly makes from this gig) No, it’s the fact that she has to try and write something interesting and fresh everyday on the Clean Skies blog. We know blogging everyday can be difficult, but at least we get to write about Oklahoma and national politics – two subjects that gives us a great deal of latitude. All Ms. Bode has to write about is CNG and how it is the second coming of Christ. For example, check out today’s post:
Light, sweet crude is not so sweet to investors, being replaced by sugar on the commodities market as the commodity of choice. Sugar demand is about to top production for the first time since 2006, the year prices reached a 24-year peak. India, the second-biggest grower, will reduce supplies 16 percent next year, shifting to more profitable crops. Brazil, the largest producer, expects to use 57 percent of its cane for ethanol this year, up from 54 percent. Refiners in Europe will process 15 percent less because a 2004 trade ruling bars growers from exporting surpluses.
“The last time the world consumed more sugar than it produced was in 2006, when the cane crop in Thailand was down for a third straight year and record energy prices boosted demand for alternative fuels. Futures reached 19.73 cents a pound on Feb. 3, 2006, the highest since April 1981.” Read more…
I guess what we’re supposed to take from this post is that oil is so “old school” now, that even the world deems sugar more important????
By Ernest Istook
The visuals are terrific. Imagine the Empire State Building with a windmill on top rather than King Kong. That’s how the New York Post depicted Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s latest idea. Another illustrator adorned the Brooklyn Bridge with windmills atop its towers.
It’s all because Bloomberg proposed that the Big Apple should blossom with windmills to provide at least one-tenth of its power.
What if his idea caught on? Why not mandate that every building taller than a few stories sport a rooftop windmill? We could include the Washington Monument. And every TV and radio antenna. And every hilltop and mountain, including those in national parks.
Don Quixote would be proud. But had Bloomberg done the math, he’d know that even if Manhattan were topped by a solid block of windmills, they wouldn’t come close to meeting the city’s power consumption.
Wind power has its place as a power source, but it’s not a place at the top. It provides less than one-tenth of 1 percent of U.S. electricity because it costs more to produce. The wind may be free, but the equipment is expensive.
The costs are even dearer if you follow Bloomberg’s other suggestion, namely floating windmills in the middle of the ocean.
How many windmills does it take to meet the power needs of a typical city, much less New York City?
At www.scitizen.com, Kurt Cobb worked the numbers. Generously, he presumed the windmills would use 5-megawatt turbines – generating three times the output of a typical 1.5-megawatt turbine. He compared that with a 500-megawatt fossil-fuel (coal) power plant needed to power a city of 300,000 people. A typical power plant, he noted, would cover 300 acres, but use only 30 of those for the actual facility.
Cobb calculated it would take 233 5-megawatt wind turbines to equal the coal plant’s output, since the wind doesn’t blow constantly. Each would need to be spaced 2,065 feet away from the others (five times the diameter of their 413-foot rotors). Adding the rotor diameters to the spacing requirement equates to a 110-mile long line of windmills, half a mile in width.
It comes to 55 square miles. That’s to provide electricity for a town of 300,000 people. Read more…
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CleanSkies.Org’s Denise Bode: Bloomberg Backs Off
Clean Skies CEO Denise Bode was warning the nation before 9/11 and the Iraq War, that our dependence on foreign oil and bans on domestic drilling would eventually lead to “price hikes.” This excerpt was taken from a 2001 piece in Energy Houston magazine.
If the U.S. does not open up federal lands to exploration and production and support the rebuilding of the nation’s energy production, refining and delivery systems, we can expect more price hikes and curtailments for energy, warns Denise Bode, vice chair of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission and former president of the Independent Petroleum Association of America.
Writing in the new issue of Energy Houston magazine, Bode says, “America’s energy infrastructure and resource base is being shut down, and that is in turn causing a crisis from the gas pump to the electric meter.” America is approaching being 60 percent dependent on foreign energy, up from 42 percent 10 years ago. Read more…
So how’s that ‘eco-friendly’ feeling now? When corporation commission officials nuked a proposed coal generating plant last year, ostensibly because coal fired plants are just too “dirty”, the environmentalists and their buddies at Chesapeake energy cheered. Now folks in northeast Oklahoma are finding out the real dirt is in their electricity bills because of the rapidly escalating cost of natural gas.The phony coalition formed by Chesapeake to oppose the construction of cheaper and more economically-reliable coal plants in favor of plants fired by price-volatile natural gas beat back a proposal fronted by the incompetent team at Oklahoma City-based OG&E. OKPNS chronicled the hapless effort the utility made on behalf of coal, but the natural gas syndicate won primarily because they own two members of the commission: Jim Roth, the official Chesapeake errand butt boy, and light weight commissioner Jeff Cloud, who is rumored to have a standing job offer from a “natural gas” company. One can only guess who.
Ironically, both Roth and Cloud, if he files, face re-election this fall. Insiders say Cloud is being offered far, far below the salary former commissioner Denise Bode took to head up Chesapeake’s anti-coal working group based in Washington.
From eco-imperialism.com (4/27/06):
Even in this “era of corporate social responsibility,” brazen violations of honesty, transparency and accountability standards occur regularly. Exhibit 1: the recent “Coal is filthy” ad campaign.
Prominent advertisements in major US papers featured an ethnic spectrum of smudge-faced California models, whose misleading claims about emissions from coal-fired electrical generating plants were reinforced by a CleanSkyCoalition.com website. The campaign urged citizens to tell government officials, “No more filthy coal plants.”
But the Coalition wasn’t another gaggle of environmental pressure groups, like those listed on the website. It was a cabal of natural gas companies, led by Chesapeake Energy of Oklahoma. Their goal wasn’t really helping Americans get “clean skies” and “live longer,” as their ads proclaimed. It was fattening corporate wallets.
Cloud, unlike Bode, doesn’t posses an impressive body of work and is rumored to be, shall we say, not that enthusiastic about hard work, which is important if the offer comes from Chesapeake, since screwing the public, like rust, never sleeps.
Regardless, some Oklahomans can soon experience for themselves the results of the phony global warming scam that allows greedy power companies to exploit the public’s fear so that long-term energy policies are based on emotions rather than reason. Ethanol anybody?
So now some Oklahomans will see their electric rates take a major hike in a few days, and based upon some estimations, natural gas prices will double in the next couple of years. So any money you have left over from purchasing artificially-inflated food and automobile fuel will fly out of your pockets for your electric bill. Shunning coal for natural gas may sound great, until reality hits. Thanks to the climate change hysteria created by idiots like Algore, Chesapeake has committed daylight robbery, and gotten away with it. So it’s grab your ankles time in Oklahoma:
Dr. natural gas will now administer your treatment.
So here’s the environmental scores for tonight: Chesapeake is going to make more obscene profits, Oklahomans will soon begin sending corporate welfare to Chesapeake’s basketball team and in gratitude, Chesapeake will now return the favor by screwing those same people on their utility bills.
It’s been a very busy year for the folks at 63rd and Western, but there’s much more lying, stealing and even a few folks they haven’t hosed out there yet. Now THAT’s an inconvenient, and unfortunate, truth.
“The natural gas industry needs to “elbow our way into the debate on energy.” - Denise Bode
Great move by Chesapeake to hire Bode! Who is better at throwing elbows than Denise Bode? We wonder if this “uniquely American Industry” will start employing more American workers in the future?
From the Times Record News: (Wichita Falls, TX)
Bode, former Oklahoma Corporation commissioner who is now CEO of the American Clean Skies Foundation, told about 1,100 oil and gas producers at a Texas Alliance of Energy Producers’ luncheon Wednesday that the natural gas industry needs to “elbow our way into the debate on energy.”
With Americans paying $3.30 a gallon or more for gasoline, “The public is listening like never before,” she said.
She called natural gas a “uniquely American” industry that’s still in its infancy.
Her organization, whose mission she said was to educate and communicate rather than lobby, is launching an extensive public awareness campaign comprised of national newspaper and television ads and a news Web site. Read more…
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“America has to lead the ‘Watt.com’ revolution. Those states that lead will reap the advantages. Renewables like wind and solar alone will not solve the problem. Only when combined with clean-burning natural gas, whose supply forecast is up 18 percent over just two years ago to 120 years supply in North America, do you really have a clean and practical solution for the future.”
Denise Bode, CEO of the American Clean Skies Initiative
By Jim Snyder
Since opening for business in 1993, Chesapeake Energy has grown into a dominant player in the natural gas industry. Now the company is setting its sights on Washington.
In the process, it is making the traditional energy lobby, which tries hard to avoid infighting, nervous that the détente could be over.
Chesapeake’s push comes as Congress weighs global warming legislation, which could rearrange the country’s energy fuel mix.
The company is a charter member of the American Clean Skies Foundation, which will promote natural gas interests. The formation of a new coalition itself isn’t particularly newsworthy since several already exist. But Chesapeake’s CEO, Aubrey McClendon, who co-founded the company with $50,000, indicated in an interview with The Hill that the foundation would not be afraid to challenge Big Coal, despite that industry’s powerful backers on Capitol Hill.
“We will be an aggressive and forceful advocate of natural gas, and I should add, effective,” McClendon said.
The foundation will be run by Denise Bode, a member of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission with ties to Washington’s oil and gas lobby. Bode was once the president of the IPAA and is a former staffer to ex-Sen. David Boren (D-Okla.). Read more…