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Comment by mike on March 20, 2010 at 5:16am

View all Haynesville tour dates

Comment by J Jay Pirko on March 19, 2010 at 7:08pm

Green Energy Courses at KSU Trumbull Tue-30-Mar 7:00-8:30 pm

Learn About Green Energy Courses offered by Kent State University in Trumbull
County Ohio, at our March 30 Clean Energy Network Meeting in Warren. Featured
speakers are Marie DaBalko and Tony Davis, who will explain what courses are
available and tuition help for displaced workers.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Kent State University, Trumbull Campus
Technology Building, Room 117
*Posted on Pickens Plan events*

Comment by mike on March 14, 2010 at 11:41am

Please check out the Haynesville movie's page here on the Pickens Army site. I want to get a Haynesville "street team" going to get the film into communities across the country via house parties and community screenings. The movie is a great way to educate people as to the potential of natural gas as a clean, domestic energy source/fuel. So many people said they were not good at community outreach because they didn't know what to say. Well, this film does the talking for you!!! The DVD purchase page also has cool t-shirts and movie posters. :-)
Please contact me if you have any questions or ideas. Lets put Pennsylvania back on the Pickens Army map!

Comment by J Jay Pirko on February 28, 2010 at 11:23am

Pickens Plan leadership in Ohio 6th & 17th Districts are featured in the Steubenville Herald-Star, working with Green Energy Initiatives.

Please read this news story:

http://www.hsconnect.com/page/content.detail/id/532976.html?actionAlert=emailcontent

J. Jay (Jim) Pirko
OH-17 District Group Leader

Comment by J Jay Pirko on February 21, 2010 at 10:01am

To the PickensPlan Leadership Team:

Encouraging energy business news is coming from the Youngstown, Ohio area. Google the Youngstown Business Journal, open the links to the news stories, and read about this hotbed of new energy industries.

For Pickens Plan entrepreneurs, this is a place to find the resources needed to grow a sustainable energy economy.

At our Regional Chamber of Commerce meeting Wed-17-Feb-2010, Congressman Tim Ryan recognized, and expressed his support for the Pickens Plan and HR 1835 (the NAT GAS Act.)

Executives from V & M Star Steel, who are investing $650 MILLION in their Youngstown plant to make gas/oil drilling pipe, were the guests of honor. Attending were a few hundred business and government officials.

This should encourage all Pickens Plan activists, that Boone's vision of American energy independence is becoming reality in the heart of the old "Rustbelt."

J. Jay (Jim) Pirko
Pickens Plan Leader OH-17

Comment by J Jay Pirko on January 17, 2010 at 2:01pm

Thu-26-Jan-7pm Green Energy Ohio at KSU Trumbull

Join Green Energy Ohio for our January Clean Energy Network Meeting in Warren. Featured speakers are John Cesta and Marvin Shevel of Best Furnace Company. John and Marvin will explain how geothermal energy works, the types of systems on the market, and available tax credits and incentives.

Tuesday, January 26, 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Kent State University, Trumbull Campus
Technology Building, Room 117

Call 330-647-3666 or visit www.GreenEnergyOhio.org.

Comment by J Jay Pirko on December 26, 2009 at 7:08pm

Do you have info on the horizontal drilling radius distance from the well head, acreage required, and production volume to make a Marcellus shale gas well economically feasible? Do you have cost estimates for drilling and well head infrastructure?

J. Jay Pirko
OH-17 District Group Leader
Youngstown, Ohio (on the OH-PA border)

Comment by J Jay Pirko on December 22, 2009 at 7:31pm

Notice to Entrepreneurs in the New Energy Economy:

ADVANCED-ENERGY BUSINESS INCUBATOR IN WARREN, OHIO

The Youngstown-Warren Ohio region (in northeast Ohio and western Pennsylvania) is a hotbed for Green Energy technology and business opportunity.

The Youngstown Business Journal published this article, another example of their outstanding business news coming from the Youngstown region. (I strongly recommend subscribing to the Youngstown Business Journal daily news broadcasts, and in-depth printed newspaper.)

- James Jay Pirko
OH-17 District Leader


NorTech to Help Launch Warren Incubator
-- 12/15/2009
Dec. 22, 2009 6:48 a.m.
By Dennis LaRue
WARREN, Ohio -- Possessed of a vision and fortified with $2.7 million in federal and state grants and another $1.7 million in private funding, a steering committee of 26 will, over the next 10 months, work toward the birth of an advanced-energy business incubator downtown.

Midwife to this birth is Rebecca O. Bagley, president and CEO of NorTech, a consulting firm based in downtown Cleveland whose tagline is “Growing Northeast Ohio’s High Tech Economy.”

Bagley, U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan, D-17 Ohio, state Sen. Capri Cafaro, D-32 Hubbard, state Rep. Tom Letson, D-64 Warren, and Mayor Michael O’Brien, outlined their vision Monday of what such an incubator might achieve in the fields of “advanced energy and flexible materials.”

Long on optimism and short on specifics, the four expressed hope the incubator will rejuvenate manufacturing in Mahoning Valley through infant enterprises that one day produce parts for windmills, geothermal, solar and nuclear energy plants and sources of energy other than petroleum, coal and natural gas.

“Four hundred tons of steel go into a windmill,” Ryan noted.

Bagley offered a number of people she expects would be employed in the incubator -- “50 to 70 jobs” – rather the number of companies that would be housed there.

“We have done some market testing,” she said later, reporting that “450 firms” in the region are interested.

The incubator is incorporated as a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that will be funded by both the public and private sectors.

The site of the incubator, whether it will be a converted building or a brand-new structure, and its design all must be worked out, to be determined by the steering committee that includes “nine CEOs or CEO-level executives,” Bagley said.

Mike Garvey, president of M 7 Technologies, Youngstown, and William Letson, president of the Trumbull 100, were present at yesterday’s press event in Ryan’s Warren office. So, too, were leaders from organized labor such as Gary Steinbeck, Sub-District 1 director of the United Steel Workers of America, and Mark Catello, business manager of Local 573 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.

Tony Iarusso, executive director of Warren Redevelopment and Planning, “will be involved,” O’Brien promised.

“Our role is facilitation,” Bagley said, “walking the steering committee through the process.”

The steering committee will look closely at the Youngstown Business Incubator, which Ryan called “a successful model [that will help the committee] avoid landmines.” He praised its success, noting it has earned national attention and, he hopes, the Warren incubator will too.

O’Brien voiced great optimism about the incubator, which in conjunction with the main campus of Eastern Gateway Community College to be established in Warren, should boost his city’s economy. Bagley and Ryan expect a partnership will develop between the community college and incubator.

“From North Park [Avenue] to Main Street,” O’Brien predicted, “within the next year, all [vacant buildings] will be filled.”

After nearly 30 years of neglect from Washington and Columbus, he rejoiced in the funding for the incubator and the development of the community college campus.

O’Brien pronounced himself “thoroughly impressed by the connectivity” of the Ohio House of Representatives, Ohio Senate and Congress that allowed the public funding of the incubator.

Before founding NorTech, Bagley served as deputy secretary for the Technology Investment Office of the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development under Gov. Ed Rendell, says the biography provided by NorTech. There she “was responsible for the administration of several major state programs and initiatives, including the Life Sciences Greenhouse Initiative, the Ben Franklin Technology Partners, the Keystone Innovation Zone program, the research and development tax credit program and the manufacturing strategy.”

In that role, she managed “more than $1.7 billion in investments for Pennsylvania.”

Before that she was an investment banker in New York City where she was involved in oil and gas mergers and raising capital for various energy ventures.

She earned her baccalaureate in marketing at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Copyright 2009 The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.

Comment by mike on December 17, 2009 at 5:10pm

Send a holiday e-card to Sen. Specter asking him to support green energy in the new year (sponsored by the Sierra Club).

Link: http://action.sierraclub.org/site/Ecard?ecard_id=2321

Comment by mike on December 7, 2009 at 9:12am

I think that it would be nice if we all had a visual aid to show to people when we try to educate them about the potential of natural gas as a cleaner, abundant, domestic energy source and one which can serve as a bridge to a green energy economy.

I found a documentary film, just released a short time ago, that does all these things. It profiles the lives of people in the Haynesville Louisiana area after the find of massive gas deposits there. It also uses a group of experts in the areas of energy and the environment to flesh out all of the things that we have been saying about natural gas. Many of the comments sound like things Boone has been saying since last year...

I am thinking that Army members could use the film to hold screenings for their friends/family/governement representatives/community, etc. Like they say, a picture is worth a thousand words and so a film must be worth a million, lol

Many Army members have told me that they don't know what to say to people or things of that nature and a film like this does the talking for you. At the moment I am working to bring the film to Plan members but I thought I would put this up so you can go have a look at the film website and trailer at least.

Website: http://www.haynesvillemovie.com/

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/haynesvillemovie

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