Washington’s foreign policy community is all aflutter anticipating the meaning and outcome of Chinese President Hu Jintao’s three-day summit with U.S. President Barack Obama, which starts today. But while the two heads of state focus on resolving what pries them apart, both nations share a dangerous confrontation within their borders over energy demand and water supply—offering a matchless opportunity for new kinds of cooperation on policy, technology,…
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I am very late in responding - I apologize. Tthe resistance I am seeing to clean energy in the US is mostly related to the siting of an energy project, whether it be on lands with unique values (such as endangered species habitats) or more prosaic NIMBY ( such as the resistance to offshoe wind projects because of the impairment of scenic values. Another big area of resistance is to the building of the additional transmission infrastucture to brong the celen electrons to the load centers.
- Jim Holtkamp
I'm following this particular issue now: http://www.energizevermont.org/notes/index/show?noteKey=State_Pursues_RINA_Designation_for_Ira%2FPoultney.
I'm in the office, 10-12 EDT Friday, 802 287 8294. Or at your convenience.
I'm intrigued by Circle of Blue, also.
- Ron Steffens
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