NewEnergyNews: WALL STREET GREEN TRADERS HOLD SUMMIT

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    Anne B. Butterfield of Daily Camera and Huffington Post, is a biweekly contributor to NewEnergyNews

  • Lies, damned lies and politicians (October 8, 2012) by Anne Butterfield (Boulder Daily Camera via NewEnergyNews)

    From the sparring at the first presidential debate, it's pretty sure that energy has become a divisive as well as a competitive issue. Both President Obama and Governor Romney want to be the triumphal producer of energy.

    However Romney likes to smear climate change concerns and clean energy investments, as if all of them go like Solyndra, where a half a billion in loan guarantees went down with the company, as he crowed that 50 percent of clean energy investments supported by the stimulus bill had gone belly up. This was dubbed the "lie of the night" by Michael Grunwald, author of a book about the stimulus bill, citing that maybe one percent of government backed clean energy ventures failed.

    Try getting that rate of safety in your investing. According to a new poll by Hart for the solar industry, voters seem to know that loan guarantees are a steadfast service of government and highly safe, as the Solyndra debacle was deemed unimportant by respondents. Ninety-two percent of registered voters found it important that solar be more widespread, with 70 percent believing that the federal government should be doing more to promote it with incentives (with 71 percent of swing voters feeling this way).

    And, sigh, with tens of thousands of wind power jobs on the chopping block already, Mitt Romney opposes the renewal of the Production Tax Credit. This, even as red states need it renewed, putting him in the dog house with GOP politicians such as Senator Chuck Grassely of Iowa whose state produces 20 percent of its power from wind, and Governor Brownback of Kansas who has made vigorous pleas for the extension of the credit, due to expire this at the end of this year.

    Didn't Romney get the memo? Republican governors are making hay with clean energy such as Haley Barbour and Chris Christie. To Mississippi, Barbour brought four solar sector firms to Mississippi along with two in biofuels plus a clean tech car venture with China. Christie made New Jersey a leading solar market in the nation, this year contending with California for first place.

    But Romney and other high priests of the GOP act as though the only real energy is the type that can be burned, and somehow, Obama has nibbled at this hemlock by constantly touting his success with fracking and his openness to the XL pipeline.

    A truly strange specter is that pipeline; it lets our heartland be used as a byway for tar sands products (which sink rather than float when spilled), so they can go straight to international markets. We get the downsides and none of the upsides -- even as the pipeline could increase gasoline prices in the Midwest, which would lose its existing access to tar sands products.

    One plausible upside of the pipeline being routed through the United States (where it might be built quickly, as would not happen in the alternative route through western Canada) is that it could strengthen the hand of President Obama in his suite of sanctions against Iran, including a worldwide boycott of Iranian oil. Our recent frack-mania allows our nation to resume oil production levels not seen for 15 years and thus strengthens our hand. Three weeks ago Iran admitted having problems selling oil due to U.S. and European sanctions; now the nation's currency is in free fall.

    One certainly hopes that tar sands will thrive mightily as a "psy-ops" against Iran and not as a chemical weapon against our climate, as Dr. James Hansen has sternly warned.

    Never bounded by his prior convictions about the climate, Romney crows that he would authorize the pipeline on day one and build it himself if need be (as if he in his wingtips could "John Wayne" his way around an oil field). It's all such a sham he-man rodeo.

    And no one mentioned the climate -- in spite of hundreds of thousands of petition signatures demanding the topic. Neither candidate pushed clean energy as the vote winner that poll after poll have shown it to be. Authors for DBL Investors in their study of green energy exclaim, "We all need to understand that green jobs are not the idle dreaming of a small group of partisan activists and insiders, but a source of livelihood for millions, literally in all parts of the country." The light shines in the darkness but the darkness of our politics has not understood it.

    Author's note: Want to support my work? Please "fan" me at Huffpost Denver, here (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anne-butterfield). Thanks.

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    Anne's previous NewEnergyNews columns:

  • Lies, damned lies and politicians (October 8, 2012)
  • Colorado's Elegant Solution to Fracking (April 23, 2012)
  • Shale Gas: From Geologic Bubble to Economic Bubble (March 15, 2012)
  • Taken for granted no more (February 5, 2012)
  • The Republican clown car circus (January 6, 2012)
  • Twenty-Somethings of Colorado With Skin in the Game (November 22, 2011)
  • Occupy, Xcel, and the Mother of All Cliffs (October 31, 2011)
  • Boulder Can Own Its Power With Distributed Generation (June 7, 2011)
  • The Plunging Cost of Renewables and Boulder's Energy Future (April 19, 2011)
  • Paddling Down the River Denial (January 12, 2011)
  • The Fox (News) That Jumped the Shark (December 16, 2010)
  • Click here for an archive of Butterfield columns

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  • Wednesday, March 05, 2008

    WALL STREET GREEN TRADERS HOLD SUMMIT

    Described as “…the defining event in the emerging Green Trading Markets,” the 7th Annual Wall Street Green Trading Summit offers a big opportunity to get into the belly of the beast, to meet carbon market pioneers and network with world class players, hear the hottest market intel, spot the new emissions trading opportunities, get a behind-the-curtain look at Cleantech VC and Hedge Funds strategies, learn about energy efficiency plays and – most importantly – understand how New Energy fits in the picture.

    Full disclosure: NewEnergyNews is
    a Wall Street Green Trading Summit media partner and has been invited to cover the event.

    Cap-and-trade will no doubt be an even bigger topic of discussion this year than last. (click to enlarge)

    Wall Street’s Best and Brightest Gather to Plan the Future
    March 05, 2008 (NewEnergyNews)

    WHO
    Peter C. Fusaro, event creator; Distinguished, influential speakers including CEOs and representatives of the biggest and most important New Energy and emissions trading entities in the world from the EU ETS to NYMEX to CCX

    WHAT
    The 7th Annual Wall Street Green Trading Summit

    Among the logos of the Wall Street Green Trading Summit 2008 Media Partners is that of NewEnergyNews. (click to enlarge)

    WHEN
    - April 2-3, 2008
    - From the website: “Each year the Wall Street Green Trading Summit sets the agenda on topics, speakers, insights and networking with industry experts…”

    WHERE
    New York Times Center
    (at the Times Building)
    242 W. 41st Street
    (between 7th and 8th Avenue)
    New York, NY

    Lecture hall at the NY Times Building. (click to enlarge)

    WHY
    Just look at the session titles:
    - Carbon Markets & Finance
    - How Major Players are Positioned for Carbon Trading
    - What's Hot in Renewable Energy Trading
    - REC Market Issues That Need to Be Resolved
    - The Next Nexus: Cleantech & Emissions Trading
    - Building Blocks for Green Trading Market Liquidity
    - Advanced Carbon Finance
    - The Green Efficiency Market: Demand Response Arrives
    - How Green Hedge Funds Execute Their Strategies

    Networking at the 2007 Summit. (click to enlarge)

    QUOTES
    From the website: “The 7th Annual Wall Street Green Trading Summit is the seminal New York City environmental financial market event created by Peter C. Fusaro. Working with Hedge Connection for the third year, this event does it all in 2 days covering carbon emissions trading and finance, renewable energy markets, cleantech VC, green hedge funds and energy efficiency financial markets.”

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