Hillary Clinton Releases A Plan To Modernize America’s Energy Infrastructure

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Hillary Clinton Releases A Plan To Modernize America’s Energy Infrastructure

by Natasha Geiling Sep 23, 2015 2:45pm


Less than 24 hours after officially coming out against the Keystone XL pipeline, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton released her plan for modernizing America’s energy infrastructure and combatting climate change across North America..............


Clinton also pledged to create a new national infrastructure bank, which would be used for investments in new infrastructure projects. She also said that she would look to expand access to clean energy by making the federal permitting process more streamlined and efficient, and help expand customer choice in an array of energy options.

“American energy policy is about more than a single pipeline to transport Canada’s dirtiest fuel across our country,” Clinton wrote. “It’s about building our future — a future where the United States will once again lead the world by constructing state-of-the-art infrastructure, creating new jobs and new markets, accelerating the transition to a clean energy economy, and improving the health, safety, and security of all Americans.”

The plan makes no mention of expanding — or contracting — drilling operations, though Clinton has previously come out against drilling in the Arctic. The plan also takes no position on lifting the ban on the export of crude oil, which is currently being debated in Congress. It says nothing about exporting coal overseas, a market that coal companies are hoping to greatly expand through proposed coal export terminals along the country’s Pacific coast.

Clinton previously released a detailed plan on combatting climate change and investing in renewable energy, which called for, among other things, the installation of half a billion solar panels by 2021 — a 700 percent increase over current installations. .............

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1. At least she is starting to get more visability

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2. Still not enough

Does she even know the meaning of the word "bold"?

And then of course we have this non-stance: "The plan makes no mention of expanding — or contracting — drilling operations, though Clinton has previously come out against drilling in the Arctic. The plan also takes no position on lifting the ban on the export of crude oil, which is currently being debated in Congress. It says nothing about exporting coal overseas, a market that coal companies are hoping to greatly expand through proposed coal export terminals along the country’s Pacific coast."

fail.

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4. Agreed

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3. Still a bit bothered my this,

“Clinton indicates that she is open to the additional leasing of public lands to fossil fuel companies, which – given the cheap nature of those leases – is effectively a subsidy to fossil fuel interests,” he said, while acknowledging that Clinton said she wanted to ensure “taxpayers get a fair deal”.

“The devil is in the details here,” Mann said. “A fair deal would mean charging fossil fuel companies for the damage that is being done by the additional burning of fossil fuels in the form of climate change and its costly impact. Even the fossil fuel industry estimates that to be least $60 per ton of carbon burned.”

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/24/hillary-clinton-unveils-her-masterplan-to-make-us-clean-energy-superpower