On today’s BradCast, the winning streak for environmentalists continues…as does the losing streak for the CIA.
First, new revelations from former CIA Directors about the many months of attempted warnings from the CIA and other national security officials about “significant” and “spectacular” al Qaeda attacks prior to 9/11 and even long prior to the “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the U.S.” Presidential Daily Briefing memo in early August of 2001. Also, new admissions about the agency giving the go ahead to killing women and children during drone attacks on suspected terrorist targets.
Then, another big victory for the climate, this time in New York state where Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday rejected [PDF] a proposed pipeline that would have brought imported liquefied natural gas from Africa and elsewhere in to Long Island. One of Cuomo’s stated reasons for vetoing the project in federal waters was due to climate change and the fact that the pipeline would have threatened not only commercial traffic and fisheries in the area, but also the construction of several proposed windfarms for the same location that would have brought clean, renewable energy to the Empire State.
National Resources Defense Council attorney, and former Special Deputy AG for Environmental Protection in New York, Kit Kennedy was at Cuomo’s veto ceremony on Thursday and joins us to explain his reasons and the larger implications of rejecting the controversial Port Ambrose Terminal project.
“This was a classic David vs. Goliath fight between dirty fossil fuels and renewable energy,” Kennedy explains. “And in this case, Goliath went down and renewable energy has prevailed over fossil fuel and it is a huge victory.”
She credits a large local coalition for that “huge victory”, another in a recent series that came about due to the dedicated commitment of organizers and activists. “Local residents, elected officials, fishermen, environmentalists of all stripes, came together not only to oppose the project but to support an offshore wind project that was proposed for the same site.”
“In vetoing the project yesterday, Governor Cuomo said the risks exceeded the reward of the project,” she tells me today, arguing that this victory and other recent ones represent “a turning point” for energy production in this country.
“This is an incredibly exciting time to be working on climate and clean energy issues in the United States. We have all sorts of decisions going the way of clean energy. I think it is a tipping point, and we’re going to see our country take strong action to fight climate pollution and to build up the clean energy economy,” Kennedy says.
Also on today’s BradCast: Did you know the year’s biggest entertainment release is all about the effects of climate change?; Free energy in Texas, thanks to wind power; And, now’s your chance to get a really great price on an electric car while sending a message to VW and the rest of the auto industry!…
Giant chemical batteries are not necessary for an electric utility to store extra wind power for later. The obvious thing to do is just to pump water uphill into the reservoir behind a hydroelectric dam.
Nothing new in “CIA Admissions” – Tenet wrote the same thing in his 2007 memoir and in length 60 Minutes interview with Scott Pelley that same year. You can look it up. People simply forget.
I’m sorry. All of your breathless new revelations about 9/11 and the CIA were better covered six years ago by the National Security Advisor to W. Bush, Richard Clarke in his book on the attack.
Burning Bush, “W” jest needed more Company time to stitch together HIS 9/11 FALSE FLAG!
Hey Brad, check out what feeney’s been up to;
http://www.truth-out.org/news/i...sterious-donor
“Nothing new”?
“Your breathless new revelations”?
Yes, this has been covered before. But the CIA itself consistently denied that there were all these warnings. People in a position to know got canned from their jobs for reporting the warnings. Susan Lindauer, who was “a CIA asset,” and reported warnings from Iraq intelligence on attacks, was confined in a Texas military base to keep her from talking. See her book, “Extreme Prejudice,” or various on-line interviews, such as with Michael Collins.
Hey, Ancient–
That truthout article reminds me of something Herblock wrote in one of his books. It was to the effect that the favored are free to keep all the enterprise for themselves.