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Being against renewable energy is like being against puppies; Dow Jones has until 5pm today to decide about Murdoch

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His state has ten of the worst coal-fired plants in the country, the mountain top are leveled for more coal, and Lamar Alexander thinks wind farms "destroy the landscape"

 

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Senator Lamar Alexander- a true dunce of the highest order

To a lot of people, it’s hard to imagine why anyone would actually be against renewable energy. It’s a little bit like being against puppies. Yet these opponents exist, and I’m sorry to say some are warming seats in the United States Senate.

Take Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander, for example. Sen. Alexander hails from a part of the country that is home to “six of the nation’s 10 largest carbon-dioxide-emitting coal-fired power plants,” according to Tennessean.com. You might think that Alexander is somehow beholden to the coal industry because of this, or that his Martha’s Vinyard property and the debate over the Cape Wind project might influence him, or that the campaign contributions that flow his way from the most carbon-dioxide producing utility in the country are the source of his clean energy antipathy. Not so, says the Senator. He doesn’t like wind power, he claims, for aesthetic reasons. “I think they absolutely destroy the landscape.”   Read the rst of this PlanetSave article here.
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Dow Jones/Ottaway owners have until 5pm today to decide
Bancrofts' jockeying over Murdoch deal goes down to the wire


Some family members have committed to vote in favor of a sale, but others oppose the deal for fear that News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch's style of journalism would damage the integrity of Dow Jones's publications... which includes The Standard-Times in New Bedford and The Cape Cod Times in Hyannis The Bancroft family and its advisers headed into the final hours of deliberations over the fate of Dow Jones & Co. Sunday amid heated jockeying and negotiating that threatened to create a rift between the company's board and some family advisers, according to people familiar with the matter.

Still, the company's fate remained too close to call, these people said. Michael B. Elefante, the family's lead trustee, indicated to some on the board last night that he has slightly less than 30 percent of the overall vote. News Corp. likely needs family votes representing roughly 30 percent of the overall vote to succeed. Mr. Elefante has given family members a deadline of today at 5 p.m. to present him with voting agreements to sell shares to News Corp., which has offered $60 a share, or $5 billion, for the company...  Read the rest of this Standard-Times story here.   

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07/30/07 @ 7:06 am
Shecky [Member] writes:
Re: "Some family members have committed to vote in favor of a sale, but others oppose the deal for fear that News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch's style of journalism would damage the integrity of Dow Jones's publications..."

At least there's no possibility of that happening at CCTimes since they have none left ;>)
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