By no means is it time to relax, Cape Vincent is under British rule and as they say it ain’t over till the fat lady sings, but she may be warming up.
How Serious Is BP about Wind Energy?
That question was recently asked by David Ferris, Forbs contributor.
June 14 , 2012, Ferris conducted a brief interview with Katrina Landis, the CEO of BP‘s alternative energy division, to learn more about the oil company’s growing role as a developer of wind farms.
BP’s wind holdings are minor in comparison to their carbon producing assets. Additionally, BP shut its 40-year-old solar program, down last year due to “elusive” profits. In defense of this ” Landis said.
“We have to compete for investment dollars with all the hydrocarbon resources within BP.”
On that note in November of 2008, The Guardian Newspaper reported that BP dropped its plans to build wind farms and other renewable energy projects in Britain and will focus renewables in the United States.
The Guardian quoted a BP spokesman as saying.
“United States is more attractive due to government incentives”
With the fate of the Production Tax Credit unknown and the looming possibility that it will not be renewed, will BP once again bail on renewables?
The interesting part of this Forb’s story comes at the very end , a rundown of BP’s projects under construction or proposed:
Auwahi Wind Farm, Hawaii
Flat Ridge 2 Wind Farm Wichita, Kansas
Mehoopany Wind Farm, Scranton Pennsylvania
The company is also pursuing a project in Alberta, Canada, as well as the Energia Sierra Juarez Wind Farm Baja California.
Information about all of the above projects can be found on BP's website.
However,if you go to BP’s website and type in Cape Vincent the following page comes up.
Why isn't BP's Cape Vincent wind project on this list of proposed projects, why has BP removed the Cape Vincent wind project from their website ?
Perhaps BP just does not want investors to see that after 6 years Cape Vincent has been a development disaster.
Note:
Information about BP’s CapeVincent Wind project is available at Environmental Resource Management’s website(ERM) .
ERM assisted in performing a general wetland survey and habitat assessment for BP's Cape Vincent wind complex.
Who knows ~Maybe Chandler is wobbling on a tightrope...
Link here to FORBES Story ~How Serious Is BP About Wind Energy?
Link here ~ to BP website, listing BP’s wind projects either in construction or proposed:
Link here to ERM ~ BP/Cape Vincent ~DEIS & SDEIS
Link here to the Gaurdian ~ 2008/ BP drops plans for UK wind farms
Link here to Cnet news ~ BP Solar shuts down 12/21/11
8 comments:
Yesterday someone suggested a billboard telling Bp to go home.
Let me add to that the formation of a pot and pan band.If Bp or a art ten state siting team comes to the Cape we should greet them with jeers and whistles while beating on pots and pans with wood spoons.
We will not let them take our right to local rule and setting our own laws.
This is good stuff. How about someone contacting BP's higher ups, not the low hanging fruit like Chandler, but the honchos in Houston and ask them why is it there is no reference to our town? This is a reasonable question. In fact I think Pandora should call, I think JLL should call, I think Jae Lee should call, I think Pam McDowell should call and I think Urban Hirschey should call. Perhaps all of us screwed over citizens by BP's treachery should call and demand an explanation. Is BP hiding its failure and is it preparing to leave town?
There is no reference to our town because even a large ruthless corporation like Bp sometimes gets embarrassed.
During the time that Chandler claimed there has been positive progress in the Cape development three town councilman, the PB chair and two other members had conflicts of interest with wind development.
your just stirring the pot with bullshit!!!!
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Cape Vincent has the definite advantage of extensive documentation of wrong doing in wind siting in the Cape. Much of it has not even been published. You can't believe the embarrassing things they tried to pull.
We will fight hard against Article X which by the way is not at all going the way the developers had expected.
The BP website interactive map only shows projects under construction or completed, not proposed (nothing in NY). I searched under NY and came up with a reference to Clipper Energy. In 2006 BP and Clipper announced an agreement to work together in New York. In 2012, Untied Technologies dumped Clipper. Not much in the news about them since 2010. I don't know how this impacts anything, but I found it interesting.
Acciona does not have any info either; it is like their proposed SLW project never existed.
Cape Vincent has the definite advantage of extensive documentation of wrong doing in wind siting in the Cape. Much of it has not even been published. You can't believe the embarrassing things they tried to pull.
Poly Ester please enlighten us, knowledge is power. If you have documentation that exposes BP why haven’t you made it public?
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