UPDATE: Click here to check out photos and press for our first ever Renewable Energy Business Lobby Day.
“It is time that our legislative leaders took stock of the renewable energy industry in Virginia,” said Kent Baake, CEO and founder of Continuum Energy Solutions. “That is why this very first Renewable Energy Business Lobby Day is [...]
Sierra Club Virginia Chapter Director Glen Besa offered the following statement on yesterday’s announcement by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar:
“Sierra Club Virginia Chapter applauds today’s announcement by the Department of Interior of measures to expedite permitting of offshore wind power. “
“In the next 60 days the DOI’s Smart from the Start Initiative will designate Wind [...]
UPDATED – See below for full line up of media hits on this report.
The Sierra Club today issued a report entitled Power Failure – How Virginia is Losing the Competition For Clean Energy Jobs, that contrasts Virginia’s actions and incentives promoting energy efficiency and clean energy with the efforts of neighboring states.
“The Old [...]
Statement of Glen Besa, VA Sierra Club Director on announcement of Gamesa/Northrup-Grumman deal on offshore wind turbines:
[October 6, 2010] – The announcement today by Gamesa and Northrup-Grumman of a deal to develop a new generation of offshore wind turbines bringing 40 new jobs to Hampton Roads is welcome news.
With this announcement and the [...]
Sierrans with the Virginia Chapter, Ivy Main, Susan Stillman, Glen Besa and Eileen Levandoski, attending the North American Offshore Wind Conference in Atlantic City, NJ witnessed the signing of the first offshore wind project lease this morning, Oct. 6, 2010.
“This is a historic day and too long in coming as the U.S. lags [...]
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and ten East Coast governors to include Virginia’s Governor Bob McDonnell signed a Memorandum of Understanding yesterday to create an Atlantic Offshore Wind Energy Consortium to promote “the efficient, orderly, and responsible development of wind resources on the Outer Continental Shelf”.
Glen Besa, Director, Sierra Club-Virginia Chapter, offers the following statement:
“Offshore wind [...]
Within five to 10 years, wind turbine projects off the coast of Virginia could produce electricity at competitive costs and create thousands of jobs, according to a comprehensive feasibility study just released by the Virginia Coastal Energy Research Consortium (VCERC).
The 67-page report, which reflects 30 months of fact-finding and analysis by researchers affiliated with Virginia [...]
Since the first Earth Day began 40 years ago, and despite incredible progress on environmental protection, America has a failing energy policy that continues to reward polluters, undermines the health of the American people, threatens our national and economic security and keeps us dependent on energy sources from overseas. W
We call on Congress to [...]
Reason 1: Clean energy and climate policies will create 2 million American jobs.
On Day #1 in our Earth Day Revolution, Virginia Clean Energy Patriots gathered in front of Sen. Mark Warner’s Richmond office to record this video:
The Sierra Club along with eight other progressive action groups are sponsoring “Tools for Change: Grassroots Advocacy Workshops” in Northern Virginia, Norfolk and Richmond.
Each workshop asks the following questions:
· How can we move to a clean energy, jobs-producing economy?
· How can individuals, businesses, churches and others use energy more efficiently?
· How can we [...]
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