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• Canada Looks to Natural Gas for Its Busiest Highway

  
  PickensPlan — Authority: 131
  The Canadian government is considering building a network of hundreds of compressed and liquefied natural gas fueling stations along the country’s busiest highway corridor, Highway 401, from Quebec City to the U.S. border at Windsor, Ontario. The federal government was approached about the project by EnCana, one of ...
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• Natural Gas Leads the Charge Versus Global Warming

  
  PickensPlan — Authority: 131
  “It’s cleaner than coal, cheaper than oil and a 90-year supply is under our feet.” That’s how Associated Press writer Mark Williams describes America’s natural gas reserves in a telling article that follows right on the heels of last week’s climate conference in Copenhagen. Williams points out that only a ...
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• Meet the Army - Chandrashekar Tamirisa, Maryland State Leader

  
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  Chandrashekar Tamirisa, Maryland State Leader -Tell us about yourself? My name is Chandra Tamirisa. I am a public policy and strategy consultant in the Washington, D.C. area and live in the 8th Congressional District of the State of Maryland with my family. I am, by graduate-level training, an engineer, political ...
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• Rep. Larson Natural Gas Tax Break Extender Approved

  
  PickensPlan — Authority: 131
  U.S. Rep. John Larson (D-Ct) has had a bill approved that will extend for one year the tax credit for using domestic natural gas as a transportation fuel. The bill provides for a tax credit of 50 cents per gallon-equivalent of compressed or liquefied natural gas when used as a transportation fuel. This is an ...
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• November Oil Imports - No Relief in Sight

  
  PickensPlan — Authority: 131
  T. Boone Pickens has issued his 12th monthly press release shining a spotlight on the amount of oil the United States continues to import. In a press release published Monday, December 14, “based on the latest figures from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA), the U.S. imported ...
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• Foreign Companies Snap Up Iraqi Oil Rights; U.S. Shut Out

  
  PickensPlan — Authority: 131
  Foreign energy companies came away with lucrative energy rights during Saturday’s second round of oil license auctions by the Iraqi government. Russia’s Lukoil won big and will be partnering with Norway’s Statoil to develop Iraq’s supergiant West Qurna Phase Two oil field in southern Iraq. Another Russian ...
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• Meet the Army - Cheryl Rowland, Missouri State Leader

  
  PickensPlan — Authority: 131
  Cheryl Rowland, Missouri State Leader -Tell us about yourself I retired from the US Army after 22 years of active duty in April 2002.  I am a single mother of two amazing young men, Brian and Shane and passionate about my faith in Christ.  I have a Bachelor of Arts in Human Resources and a Master of Science in ...
  2 weeks ago

• More Praise for the Life and Lessons of T. Boone Pickens

  
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  The First Billion was the subject of an extensive review in Lexington Business this week. Columnist Paul Sanders went through the bestselling memoir of T. Boone Pickens with a fine-toothed comb, and he describes the work as “several books in one:” It tells the remarkable story of how a child of the depression ...
  2 weeks ago

• Energy Industry Execs Look to Natural Gas

  
  PickensPlan — Authority: 131
  The United States is entering an age of plenty for natural gas, according to a survey of more than 50 oil and gas professionals conducted by the Deloitte Center for Energy Solutions. “The survey numbers are striking,” said Gary Adams, vice chairman and leader of Deloitte’s oil and gas practice. “The ...
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• Meet the Army - Steve Kropper, Massachusetts State Leader

  
  PickensPlan — Authority: 131
  Steve Kropper, Massachusetts State Leader -Tell us a little about yourself I am the founder and CEO of WindPole Ventures, chartered to build a national, hub-height network that provides real time wind speed and direction data for power traders, ISO/RTO, wind developers and operators.  I’m a Founding Fellow in ...
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• Boone on Cavuto

  
  PickensPlan — Authority: 131
  T. Boone Pickens appeared with Neil Cavuto on the Fox Business Channel after the White House Jobs Summit and discussed the relationship between natural gas and jobs. Boone told Cavuto that if we moved 350,000 18-wheelers from burning imported diesel to running on domestic natural gas that would create 420,000 jobs ...
  3 weeks ago

• Natural Gas Hits the Front Page

  
  PickensPlan — Authority: 131
  The Washington Post has a front page story in its Thursday editions headlined: “An energy answer in the shale below? New technology opens vast stores of natural gas, and the land rush is on” The piece, written by reporter Steven Mufson, quotes energy executive Tony Hayward, as saying: “The United States is ...
  3 weeks ago

• 11 Coal-Fired Plants to be Replaced by Natural Gas and Nuclear

  
  PickensPlan — Authority: 131
  Progress Energy announced Tuesday that it was closing 11 coal-fired plants in North Carolina by 2017 and replacing them with plants that run on natural gas and nuclear power. The closures represents a bet that “natural gas prices will stay acceptably low and that stricter rules are coming on sulfur dioxide ...
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• Boone Connecticut Town Hall

  
  PickensPlan — Authority: 131
  T. Boone Pickens participated in a town hall meeting along with Congressman John Larson in East Hartford, Connecticut just before Thanksgiving. There were over 500 people at the event including the president of the Bristol, CT (home of ESPN) Chamber of Commerce. Mike Nicastro wrote about his visit with Boone in his ...
  3 weeks ago

• China’s Largest Energy Company Boosts Natural Gas Imports

  
  PickensPlan — Authority: 131
  China’s leading oil and gas producer is increasing its emphasize on natural gas. China National Petroleum Company (CNPC) has announced that it will increase production of natural gas as well as imports. The company’s natural gas production and pipeline transmission are at maximum capacity, said Hou Chuangye, ...
  4 weeks ago

• John Larson Hosts the Pickens Plan in Connecticut

  
  PickensPlan — Authority: 131
  The T. Boone Express traveled to the capital of Connecticut for a Town Hall meeting at Goodwin College, but Rep. John Larson insisted that the first order of business be a pit stop at Augie & Ray’s. For 60 years, the East Hartford eatery has been a mainstay for locals as well as honored guests, and the ...
  4 weeks ago

• T. Boone Pickens Stars at Goodwin College

  
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   Yesterday, my Horst Engineering colleague, Art Roti, joined me and a host of other folks to hear T. Boone Pickens speak at Goodwin College . Pickens was in town as a guest of US Representative John Larson . Congressman Larson, and Goodwin College President, Mark Scheinberg, hosted Pickens during his brief visit ...
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• Natural Gas Shines in Report from National Research Council

  
  PickensPlan — Authority: 131
  The National Research Council has released a report that examines various forms of energy and then estimates the hidden costs associated with each, such as health damage from air pollution. Among its conclusions? The many advantages of natural gas not only as a vehicle fuel but also as an electrical power source. ...
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• Meet the Army - Harvey Johnson, Texas State Leader

  
  PickensPlan — Authority: 131
  Harvey Johnson , Texas State Leader -Tell us a little about yourself I was born June 6, 1955 in Marlin, Texas. I have been married for 36 years, have four grown children and six grandchildren. I am proud to be one of the Texas state leaders for the Pickens plan. -Why are you a part of the Pickens Plan? I believe ...
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