NV Summit Aims For New "Energy Independence Day"
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Las Vegas, NV – The Clean Energy Summit opening Monday in Las Vegas is a major event that could determine the future of clean energy production and decide where it will be produced in the West.
Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens, former President Bill Clinton, Nevada Senator Harry Reid, and other national leaders are all mapping out their visions for renewable energy to be presented at the summit.
John Tull with the Nevada Wilderness Project says the Clean Energy Summit offers a win-win opportunity for the Silver State to address an issue that has local, statewide and even global implications.
"We're going to be reducing our contribution to climate change, which is a global issue. From a national and a state perspective, we're reducing our dependence on foreign oil, and then we get to create whole new economies in rural areas."
Tull says national security is also at stake, because renewable energy can help the nation wean itself off costly foreign oil from unstable regions.
Monique DiGiorgio with the Western Environmental Law Center says the summit will try to build on agreements already made by Nevada's Jim Gibbons and more than 20 other governors on locating clean energy production in places where it can do the most good.
"Looking at how we can work together - the conservation community, the renewable energy industry - to really take a look at quickly developing our renewable energy resources while also protecting the public lands and the wildlife habitat that are so important to all of us in the west."
DiGiorgio says the new industry can be "smart from the start," meaning it can boost local and tribal economies while protecting public lands and wilderness. The summit takes place at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.
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