Energy Policy
[Updated 10 PM]. Yesterday Congressman Dennis Moore held an invitation-only meeting at Johnson County Community College. Apparently Dennis Moore feels the average citizen has little interest in what the government may do with health care in this country. Today Moore addressed the Overland Park Chamber of Commerce at their luncheon. This was not a free [...]
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News stories yesterday revealed that Gov. Kathleen Sebelius disclosed that she and her husband would need to divest investments in three stocks and a mutual fund to avoid a conflict of interest as HHS Secretary. This suggests many questions: Why were some of these investments not a conflict of interest for Sebelius as Governor? Are [...]
The Great Plains Alliance for Clean Energy (GPACE) held their Clean Energy Day II on Thursday at the State Capitol in Topeka. A number of speakers from mostly left-leaning organizations spoke at the event about various aspects of clean energy, especially wind energy, which is plentiful in Kansas at times. The public address system for [...]
Today I drove by the Jeffrey Energy Center in Pottawatomie County north of St. Marys. I noticed the plumes from the coal plants showed the wind was almost still (see below). The two windmills at the Jeffrey Energy Center (left) were not moving at all so they were not generating any of the 1.5 megawatts [...]
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On Sunday the Great Plains Alliance for Clean Energy (GPACE) and Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius were a political tag team in the Wichita Eagle as they both pushed for a long-term energy policy focused on unreliable sources of energy. Don’t misundestand: I am all for using wind energy when it makes sense. I was one [...]
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Repeated offense from 2006? This morning the Kathleen Sebelius Committee sent out an email with the subject “Our Energy Future.” The email addressed Sebelius’ view of the debate over the coal plants in Western Kansas during this year’s legislative session. Gov. Sebelius did not ask for contributions in words in her letter, but there was [...]
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius on Friday vetoed for the third time a bill allowing two coal-fired power plants in southwest Kansas. With Gov. Sebelius and Kansas Department of Health and Environment Secretary Rod Bremby so concerned with the carbon dioxide emissions from these coal power plants, how soon will they also try to eliminate the carbon [...]
On Saturday representatives from the Great Plains Alliance for Clean Energy (GPACE Action) 527 PAC were knocking on doors in parts of Johnson County looking for voters supportive of global warming. GPACE Action representatives were asking interested voters to sign a card and “GPACE will make sure it is delivered to your state representative.”
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Shouldn’t Kansas newspapers mention the political leanings of the polling company, Cooper & Secrest? Do hundreds of thousands of dollars from Kansas Democrats over more than a decade affect Cooper & Secrest’s fairness? See the rest of this entry … Update (Jan 11): Did Sebelius’ campaign and Kansas Democrats finance this survey? Sebelius spent $9475 [...]
