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Convention carbon offsets as "green" as bottom line
Democrats can't get to Denver without dumping carbon into the air.
They're washing away the sins of transportation and electrification by purchasing carbon offsets from a Vermont-based broker called NativeEnergy. ...This modern-day indulgence is officially called the "Green Delegate Challenge." For a mere $7.50, delegates and attendees can buy a carbon offset, making them at least theoretically responsible for new alternative energy. They can then forget about the emissions from jets, limos, buses, trains and taxis they take to Denver. They also can flash the lights, crank up the soundstages and rock 'n' roll like the dominant force they've become with that rhetoric about saving the planet.
August 2, 2008
by Al Lewis
in Denver Post
Democrats can't get to Denver without dumping carbon into the air.
They're washing away the sins of transportation and electrification by purchasing carbon offsets from a Vermont-based broker called NativeEnergy. Some of this money will help pay off a $1.6 million wind turbine owned by a school district on the windswept plains of Wray. But right now, the wind turbine doesn't work.
Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter blessed it during a ribbon-cutting in February - but technicians are still scrambling to get it generating electricity before the last week of August, when the Dems hit Denver for their national convention.
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