As Sec of State, @HillaryClinton prioritized clean energy worldwide

[riversedge]

Correct The Record ‏@CorrectRecord 2h2 hours ago

As Sec of State, @HillaryClinton prioritized clean energy worldwide http://correctrecord.org/hillary-clinton-smart-energy-innovation/ …



Hillary Clinton: Smart Energy Innovation

“So to those who doubt the science of climate change and who lack faith in American innovation, just tell them, look at the record and look at what’s already happening across the United States. Thanks to smart federal and state policies, academic research, private sector innovation, and the crucial work of groups like LCV, we are already advancing clean energy solutions that can begin turning this tide and can make America the clean energy superpower for the 21st century. We have the opportunity to invest in the infrastructure of the future resilient enough to withstand the effects of climate change we won’t be able to avoid, including next-generation power plants to produce electricity more cleanly, smarter grids to deliver it more effectively, and greener buildings to use it more efficiently.” -Hillary Clinton remarks to the League of Conservation Voters, New York, 12/1/14

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Getting smarter energy projects off the ground in Africa. Hillary Clinton helped launch a new partnership – the U.S.-Africa Clean Energy Finance Initiative – to jump-start private sector investment in cleaner energy projects and sustainable development across Africa. Funding provided through the initiative sparked wind, solar and hydro-powered projects in several African nations bringing electricity to thousands of homes.

Finding common goals with China to address access to reliable, sustainable, and affordable energy. Hillary Clinton spearheaded U.S. relations with China to enhance cooperation on climate change, energy and the environment. Under bilateral agreements, the U.S. and China established frameworks for increasing access to reliable, sustainable, and affordable energy as well as connecting businesses and government to support energy and environmental goals.


“In this world and the world of tomorrow, we must go forward together or not at all.”
- Hillary Clinton

[Cha]

1. Thank you, Hillary! mahalo riversedge!

[rhett o rick]

19. Fracking is the new clean energy per H. Clinton.

Do you support H. Clinton and the oil companies that love fracking to new and greater profits?

Or do you support the peons that are protesting around the world to stop this practice that is contaminating the drinking water for millions?

It's rhetorical. Oil company profits trump drinking water for us peons.

[djean111]

2. How Hillary Clinton's State Department Sold Fracking to the World

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/09/hillary-clinton-fracking-shale-state-department-chevron

ONE ICY MORNING in February 2012, Hillary Clinton's plane touched down in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, which was just digging out from a fierce blizzard. Wrapped in a thick coat, the secretary of state descended the stairs to the snow-covered tarmac, where she and her aides piled into a motorcade bound for the presidential palace. That afternoon, they huddled with Bulgarian leaders, including Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, discussing everything from Syria's bloody civil war to their joint search for loose nukes. But the focus of the talks was fracking. The previous year, Bulgaria had signed a five-year, $68 million deal, granting US oil giant Chevron millions of acres in shale gas concessions. Bulgarians were outraged. Shortly before Clinton arrived, tens of thousands of protesters poured into the streets carrying placards that read "Stop fracking with our water" and "Chevron go home." Bulgaria's parliament responded by voting overwhelmingly for a fracking moratorium.

Clinton urged Bulgarian officials to give fracking another chance. According to Borissov, she agreed to help fly in the "best specialists on these new technologies to present the benefits to the Bulgarian people." But resistance only grew. The following month in neighboring Romania, thousands of people gathered to protest another Chevron fracking project, and Romania's parliament began weighing its own shale gas moratorium. Again Clinton intervened, dispatching her special envoy for energy in Eurasia, Richard Morningstar, to push back against the fracking bans. The State Depart­ment's lobbying effort culminated in late May 2012, when Morningstar held a series of meetings on fracking with top Bulgarian and Romanian officials. He also touted the technology in an interview on Bulgarian national radio, saying it could lead to a fivefold drop in the price of natural gas. A few weeks later, Romania's parliament voted down its proposed fracking ban and Bulgaria's eased its moratorium.

The episode sheds light on a crucial but little-known dimension of Clinton's diplomatic legacy. Under her leadership, the State Department worked closely with energy companies to spread fracking around the globe—part of a broader push to fight climate change, boost global energy supply, and undercut the power of adversaries such as Russia that use their energy resources as a cudgel. But environmental groups fear that exporting fracking, which has been linked to drinking-water contamination and earthquakes at home, could wreak havoc in countries with scant environmental regulation. And according to interviews, diplomatic cables, and other documents obtained by Mother Jones, American officials—some with deep ties to industry—also helped US firms clinch potentially lucrative shale concessions overseas, raising troubling questions about whose interests the program actually serves.

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I think parts of the world may beg to differ.

[Skwmom]

3. There you go with the truth again... Politcs is all about smoke and mirrors... n/t

[TheFarS1de]

7. Fracking ...

just another word for slowly poisoning the land . Unsustainable and totally uncontrollable . ANYONE who supports fracking does not support the environment .

[cali]

4. this is so false. fracking is not clean energy.

This is nothing but propaganda. It is as far from.an independent review as is possible. Correct the Record is literally propaganda.

[azurnoir]

5. oh get with the times don't you understand it's clean fracking or fracking clean

I'm not sure- but ya know if Hillary sez so

[AtomicKitten]

12. good lord that's offensive

fracking is not clean energy just like there's no such thing as clean coal

[left-of-center2012]

18. fracking is not clean energy.

But giant oil corporations love it,
and, I guess from the opening post in this thread,
HC was advocating for it/them.

[HappyPlace]

6. She did not. She promoted fracking and fossil fuels abroad.

Correct the Record?

That's your source?

OMG, you do know, don't you, that as a source CTR is shit, right?

[frylock]

8. NOT The Onion.

[beam me up scottie]

15. I had to check to make sure.

The propaganda machine is really starting to crank out some grade A horse shit.

[djean111]

9. Correct the Record may as well be called Scrub Hillary's Record.....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/05/12/how-a-super-pac-plans-to-coordinate-directly-with-hillary-clintons-campaign/

Hillary Clinton’s campaign plans to work in tight conjunction with an independent rapid-response group financed by unlimited donations, another novel form of political outsourcing that has emerged as a dominant practice in the 2016 presidential race.

On Tuesday, Correct the Record, a pro-Clinton rapid-response operation, announced it was splitting off from its parent American Bridge and will work in coordination with the Clinton campaign as a stand-alone super PAC. The group’s move was first reported by the New York Times.

I would not call Correct the record a great source - because we know to check up on Correct the record.
We all know how to use teh Googler, and we all have pretty good memories.

[Doctor_J]

16. I see. It's a lie factory

This kind of shit really makes me think the hillarians are detached from reality. Really icky stuff

[azmom]

10. 5 reasons environmentalist don't trust Hillary

You were terrible on Keystone. Even before the State Department began its review of the project, you said you were “inclined” to approve it. That’s been your last public word on the project, but your team performed an intellectually corrupt review of the plans, your campaign bundlers landed rich lobbying contracts, and your former advisers took jobs with Transcanada.It was and is a huge mess — and I’m sure you hate the whole topic because at the start you couldn’t have known that it would become the iconic environmental issue of our era. Since pipelines until Keystone were routinely approved, it probably seemed like just a chance to please the Canadians. Had you known it would become a hornet’s nest, you would doubtless have proceeded more carefully — and in fairness it wasn’t until the process was underway that climate scientists raised their most forceful concerns. Still, ugh.

http://grist.org/politics/mckibben-to-clinton-here-are-7-things-you-need-to-do-to-clean-up-your-climate-act/

[jfern]

11. Fracking is clean energy?

[Autumn]

13. Fracking is not clean energy

Someone should Correct That Record.

[Doctor_J]

14. good Lord, is there no fantasy that the hillarians won't believe and spread?

Your post is preposterous.

[RiverLover]

17. +a gazillion!~

Clean energy, my a**.

Fracking.

When Hillary comes to Ohio next week, something tells me she won't be trying to tell US how "clean" fracking energy is...

[cali]

22. no, there's nothing

[Cha]

20. Thank you, Hillary! Don't care what BS supporters say in his name.

[cali]

23. this has nothing to do with Bernie.

Hillary supporters being thankful for her pushing dirty energy, what's next?

[beam me up scottie]

24. I see you're against the Keystone pipeline, how do you feel about fracking?

[Autumn]

31. I don't speak for Bernie, I speak for myself, I'm smart enough to know that a politician who

supports fracking is not prioritizing clean energy.

[eridani]

21. Like Keystone XL? n/t

[Cha]

25. Hillary's got this!

[BooScout]

26. Hillary gets things done!

[Scuba]

27. Yes, awful things.

[Scuba]

28. I don't know how you could be any more wrong on this, but I'm sure you'll try.

[DanTex]

29. Predictably, the Hillary bashers don't even bother to read the article, which is backed up by many

external links, before declaring it false. They've already decided that Hillary is evil, and no amount of facts will change that.

[riversedge]

30. many will never be satisfied.

That--I have accepted as a FACT.

“In this world and the world of tomorrow, we must go forward together or not at all.”
- Hillary Clinton

[Autumn]

32. I red it, a lot of links but I didn't see these links on her stand on fracking. I'm sure it was an

honest omission by the Correct The Record ‏@CorrectRecord.

http://grist.org/climate-energy/where-does-hillary-clinton-stand-on-fracking/

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/09/hillary-clinton-fracking-shale-state-department-chevron

[DanTex]

34. Yes, Hillary realizes that natural gas is cleaner than coal.

From your first article.

Now part of that bridge will certainly come from natural gas. There are challenges here to be sure, but the boom in domestic gas production is an example of American innovation changing the game, and if we do it right, it can be good for both the environment and our economy. With the right safeguards in place, gas is cleaner than coal. And expanding production is creating tens of thousands of new jobs. And lower costs are helping give the United States a big competitive advantage in energy-intensive energies. …

But to capitalize on this boom, we have to face head-on the legitimate, pressing environmental concerns about some new extraction practices and their impacts on local water, soil, and air supplies. Methane leaks in the production and transportation of natural gas are particularly troubling. So it’s crucial that we put in place smart regulations and enforce them, including deciding not to drill when the risks are too high.

[Autumn]

35. Fracking is not clean energy. Pushing and supporting fracking is not prioritizeing clean energy.

[JackInGreen]

33. Really?

fracking is your 'clean energy' worldwide push?
Rivers...please.