Wind Power 4 All

Susan mcginnis anchors the Clean Skies News Energy Report from Washington, DC On the Program: – New independent panel will investigate ipcc’s mistakes in landmark 2007 climate change report. – India to tax coal to fund renewables. – Walmart urges suppliers to cut GHG emissions. – Interior Dept. will miss today’s deadline to submit a court-ordered review of its leasing plan for offshore drilling in Alaska. – Arizona drops a bill that would have defined nuclear energy as a renewable. – First bonds for the new Vogtle nuclear reactor go to market next week. – US Utilities spent .3 billion on energy efficiency programs in 2009- up 43%. – A major Japanese manufacturer may build offshore wind turbines in England. www.cleanskies.com

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar along with Governors and representatives from six mid Atlantic states met today in Washington to lay the groundwork to jointly plan wind development off the East coast. Salazar said today he would do his part to boost wind development by streamlining the permit process for offshore alternative energy.

Tyler Suiters anchors this morning's Clean Skies News Energy Report from Washington, DC. On the program:- 17 companies/ trade associations and 13 congressmen are now suing the EPA over its endangerment finding that claims carbon emissions endanger public heath.- Climate change skeptics are using the record snowfall in the Mid-Atlantic region to push their case against global warming.- International energy companies Total and Statoil report strong 4th quarter profits.- EDF also says its profits are better than expected at billion.- First-Energy says it will buy Allegheny Energy for about .7-billion in stock creating one of the nation's largest power companies.- The Northwest Power and Conservation Council says the Pacific Northwest should invest in efficiency, conservation, wind, natural gas and not coal.- The British Columbia government has killed a proposed coal mine on the headwaters of the Flathead River.- A study funded by the developer of the proposed Cape Wind project on Nantucket Sound contends the wind farm would drive down New England's wholesale electric costs by .6 billion 25 years.- Maine's Supreme Court is weighing a state law meant to speed deployment of wind power. www.cleanskies.com

Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) — Thomas Wu, co-managing director at Hopewell Holdings Ltd., talks with Bloomberg’s Bernard Lo about the company’s performance and growth strategy. Hopewell Holdings yesterday said net income in the six months ended Dec. 31 jumped to HK.52 billion from HK1 million a year earlier. Wu also discusses the implications of China’s tightening measures to curb gains in the real estate market. (Source: Bloomberg)

Tyler Suiters anchors this morning’s Clean Skies News Energy Report from Washington, DC.On the program: – EPA prepares to issue new rules for ethanol emissions as early as today.- President Obama will talk biofuels and energy policy with governors today.- Obama also tries to defend his comments on cap & trade.- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says despite the Cape Wind decision there is other great potential for wind power.- A Virginia town passed a “ridgeline ordiance” banning construction of tall wind turbines.- Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, refuses to apologize for a 2007 report that claimed global warming could melt Himalayan glaciers.- Natural gas drillers are using new techniques to try to clean up wastewater from hydraulic fracturing. www.cleanskies.com

With all eyes on Denmark for the Copenhagen climate conference, US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar took the opportunity to visit a Danish off-shore wind farm. If the US and other developed nations are to find ways to significantly cut their carbon emissions they’ll likely need to invest heavily in alternate energy sources like wind. For more news video by Current TV visit current.com

BBC Look East news 22ed10th09 Colchester Severalls Derelict Hospital look around. New off shore wind farm plans. Norfolk Girl dies from Swine Flu. Royal Mail post Strike.