Goodbye from the Twin Cities

The balloons have fallen, the speeches made, the buttons swapped and the nominees named. So comes to the end our efforts at the Democratic and Republican conventions.

We went to Denver and the Twin Cities to give a voice to millions of Americans who are concerned about higher energy costs. We continued to make people aware of how our energy security is linked both to our national security and our economic security.  As we always do, we continued to push efforts to invest in a new generation of advanced technologies to make American coal – our most abundant energy resource – an even cleaner energy option … including the capture and storage of greenhouse gases. 

It’s been a fun two weeks.

But we’re not done yet. There is still work to be done.

This year, energy policy going to be one of the major issues of this election.  Like John McCain and Barack Obama, we’ll be hitting the campaign trail to make sure that voters continue to ask the candidates about their plans to keep energy costs affordable, secure our energy future, and ensure we pass along a cleaner environment to future generations. 

If you read this blog regularly, you’ve probably noticed that there are people who say that these goals can’t be accomplished.  Well, we do. 

We see that American clean coal not only can be a part of our energy future … but, it must.  Luckily, both candidates agree and we’ll be there to ensure that their support does not go unnoticed.

Comments

[Frank J.Agnello]

The lateness of your adv. with America having 25% of the worlds coal, appears to be after the horse got out of the enclosure? You folks are just now finding that we should began processing coal? It's like T.Boone Pickens and his drill, drill, drill, slogan, an oilman that should know of our needs and availablity. My congratulations on your knowledge and Mr. Pickens and his wind power, a distortion? F.J. Agnello

[Bryce W]

Nice photo!

[Mitch]

That is a great photo. Did you know that Minnesota is also leading the U.S. in wind energy production, and has a goal of 25% of energy produced by renewable resources by 2025? I noticed in the map of where our energy comes from that Minnesota's listed sources only added up to 93%. That's because the rest comes from wind. Why leave that out? It is just as (actually, even more) important to build our renewable, non-polluting sources. Clean coal technology may be worth investing in, but it's years away.