On Nov 28, 2006, at 7:40 PM, Nathan Kennedy wrote:
Aaron Hsu wrote:
If someone could point me to some of the resources that might give me
some more detailed information about where these organizations spend
their money, I would be able to more quickly assess my personal
opinion about this action. I do like the idea of a private
organization or co-op like ourselves funding a project to assist in
private companies building and creating cleaner energy plants, etc. I
do not like the idea of an organization llike ours providing funds to
a company or organization which also spends these funds, not only on
private action, but political lobbying to impel government to action,
usually in the form of regulation and legislation. So long as these
organizations are strictly operating only in the private sector, I'm
okay; if these organizations attempt to achieve their ends through
government intervention, however, I would like to express my strong
opposition.
I was suggesting wind energy certificates from NativeEnergy. You can
find very detailed information at their website at
http://www.nativeenergy.com/ as well as elsewhere on the web, as they
are one of the larger North American marketers of RECs.
NativeEnergy is majority-owned by the Intertribal Council on Utility
Policy, which in turn is a nonprofit alliance of 11 Plains tribal
governments dealing with energy issues. Their main project is
constructing a medium-sized wind farm on an Oglala Souix reservation.
From the looks of it, it looks alright, but I'm very apprehensive
about this. I don't see any kind of assurances that all their funds
go directly to these projects. Is there somewhere that they guarantee
or provide some level of assurance that these funds are only to fund
the development of these plants? Specifically, I'm concerned as I
can't find anything indicating what, if anything, they contribute to
other organizations or political lobbying groups.
Aaron W. Hsu
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