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John R Cogar, Oregon 2nd. Congressional District Leader commented on Brett Horvath's group 'Organizers and Leaders: Start Here'

However today I sent a letter to Boone asking for his help in locating a Commercial wind turbine for an Community College here in Oregon that trains students to become wind energy technicians... This is the letter: Dear Mr. Pickens, I am the Se...

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Are you interested in becoming an organizer in your area?

Yes

Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:

Charter member of the Central Oregon Green Collar Workforce Initiative, the Oregon Geothermal Working Group and a member of the Lake County Renewable Energy Working Group. I have had extensive community involvement in economic development and land use planning.

I have been involved with Geothermal District Heating since 1977.

I Drove an electric 4x4 Pick up truck and make bio-fuel for my diesel vehicles.

I put together a web site at sustainable-lake-county-oregon.com based on using renewable energy resources as a basis for economic development in rural south eastern Oregon.

June 2008 We applied for a USDA grant for a geothermal heating system that will replace 200,000 gallons of oil annually and may allow Lake County Oregon to export more electric energy than it uses in the next five years!

September 5, 2008: USDA has NOT funded our Geothermal Heating District System Proposal and we are looking at other financing.

September 29, 2008. We have sent Google an application for a loan to build the Lakeview Geothermal District Heating System and submitted a grant application for the Full Cycle Energy Utilization Geothermal Agri-Business concept also described below.

Dec 2, 2008 Working with a company to develop 10kw geothermal based electric generation facility with the "Waste" water being used for my District Heating Project and to provide economic development opportunities for green housing and aquaculture systems

January 10, 2009 Working with PickensPlan members Phillip Ridings of Dragonfly Wind Turbines at
http://www.dragonfly-windturbine.com/Header.Frames.html
and Clyde Childers of Skyvolt at:
http://skyvolts.com/home
to bring Dragonfly Wind Turbine to market and establish a HAG Wind generator manufacturing facility in our Geothermal Industrial Park here in South Eastern Oregon.

February 10, 2009 Working with Oregon State University on their grant application for a geothermal powered algae biodiesel refinery project for Lake County...

How can we help you with your Renewable Energy Business?

What excites you about this campaign?

Boone Pickens is a business man who sees a problem and is using his knowledge and his money to make a difference. I'll march in this band any day!!

What do you want to do to help?

Community organization and the development of green jobs training programs on a community basis using renewable energy and conservation training combined with weatherization and energization for implementation.

Sustainable Lake County Oregon is an economic development tool built to bring Renewable Energy Based Green Collar Jobs into this beautiful part of the Old West known as "Outback Oregon". Please contact us.

Below is a Geothermal Agri-business concept and a Community District Heating Project concept which have both been submitted to the Google RE

Full Cycle Energy Utilization

An Integrated Meat, Feed, Fuel and Fertilizer Production Facility using Geothermal Energy in an Agricultural Business Industrial Park as a basis for Economic Development in rural Western Communities.

See a full discription at : http://sustainable-lake-county-oregon.com/aboutus.aspx

Lakeview Geothermal District Heating System

Contact me if you would like information on this project that saves 150,000 galons of heating oil and 8800 tons of CO2 by using the heat of the earth to power a small town in SE Oregon.

Please see "Education creates Green Jobs" on Green Jobs Now Group at:

http://push.pickensplan.com/group/greenjobsnowcom/forum/topic/show?id=2187034%3ATopic%3A1432020

This is my concept for pushing President-Elect Obama's Green Jobs and Renewable Energy agenda by using the Community College system and HUD Community Development Block Grant programs to move forward with energy retrofits for millions of homes and get us started out of the "Second Great Depression"

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At 5:05am on November 28, 2009, Jim Getten said…: John,

Just joined the group. I live in Vale near the Idaho border. I notice Idaho Gov. Otter has signed on to the plan but no one in Oregon's legislature or Gov. has done so. Why?

Jim Getten
Vale, OR

At 12:02pm on August 17, 2009, Robert Schultz said…: Wind Power for Communities: a workshop for residents of rural Oregon

Northwest Sustainable Energy for Economic Development is pleased to present a workshop for rural landowners, public officials and community members interested in learning more about wind energy development. Workshop attendees will come away with the knowledge and tools they need to ensure wind developments, large and small, result in the greatest local benefit. The workshops will include an introduction to modern wind technology, the various scales of wind development and state incentives and policies effecting wind energy projects. Afternoon break-out sessions with subject matter experts focused on small/community wind projects and landowner participation in large-scale wind projects will also be offered.

All workshops are open to the public with a registration fee of $35.00. A light lunch will be provided. Registration will close on September 9th, 2009. Exhibitor options are available. Please follow this link for more information.
** Space is limited, register early! **

Workshops are offered in two locations:

September 23, 2009 | La Grande, OR
Ag Service Center - OSU Extension Office
10507 N Mcalister Rd # 9
La Grande, OR 97850-8716
8:30am - 3:00pm
Register Now - La Grande, OR

September 24, 2009 | The Dalles, OR
Columbia Gorge Discover Center
5000 Discovery Drive
The Dalles, OR 97058
8:30am – 3:00pm
Register Now - The Dalles, OR

Sponsored by the Energy Trust of Oregon and Northwest Sustainable Energy for Economic Development.

At 3:56pm on May 6, 2009, Robert Schultz said…: Invitation to join NW Renewable Energy Group
I have started a Regional group, welcoming comments, ideas, and suggestions for Renewable Energy in the NW Region. Including states from the Pacific, Cascade and Rocky Mountain areas. I realize that some of my Pickens Plan friends are outside this region, but you are always welcome to join and add your thoughts to the discussion. We should be looking at best available sources of energy in our region, and ways to improve the power grid to transfer energy from region to region as it is needed.

Robert Schultz
Pickens Plan
WA-05 District Leader

At 1:53pm on March 31, 2009, gary johnson said…: How do we get the attention of our representatives? This is one of the most urgent needs in American history and they aren't listening. In days of recession we need not be burdened down with high energy costs again.
Gary
Grants Pass

At 11:56am on February 23, 2009, Adam said…: Here is some info:

VIDEO of the very first design prototype:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmUZJYYT2n0

An article recently published:
http://www.biztimes.com/news/2009/2/6/innovations-racine-inventor-creates-a-better-windmill

At 8:41am on January 31, 2009, Remy said…: I hear what you're saying! It's hard even to convince my whinning friends to get more involved, big talk no action. But we have to keep moving forward with this even though Pres. Obama's stimulus package is full of pork and a lot less real jobs that I thought would be the case. I'm extremely disappointed in the direction he's starting to lead us.

At 2:17am on January 28, 2009, Michael Shawn Kendall said…: Hi John, Would you be willing to share this with the people in your district? Here is a way to help and give tools to all of us for getting more RE projects started. I have been pushing for the sell of US Treasury "Energy Independence Savings Bonds". Savings bonds are normally purchased in $25 increments. This gives a way for just about any American to tighten their belts just a bit by skipping a meal at McDonalds or Pizza Hut and buying a RE savings bond to support a project. I need help pushing this project, I've faxed and emailed many in Congress/Senate already. My email is ke6cvh@yahoo.com. Here is a copy of a fax sent to Nancy Pelosi yesterday:
27FEB09

Honorable Speaker of the House Congresswoman Pelosi,

I am an Electronic Technician Chief in the US Navy with 27 years service stationed overseas. I’m outlying an idea to assist and work with current plans for achieving energy independence. I urge you, as speaker of the house and the driving force to form the select committee on energy independence and global warming, consider for discussion and introduction into the house US Treasury Savings Bonds for Energy Independance.
In WWII America sold war bonds supporting the war effort. When young, my mother told me her primary school raised enough money through bonds to build a tank to support troops. I am impressed with the patriotism and purpose of our greatest generation that accomplished so much.

Selling energy bonds for RE (Renewable Energy) development would lower foreign oil imports and assist with the complex problem of funding. Bonds sold as “Energy S” could support new solar trough plants, “Energy W” to support wind farms, Energy “H” to support hydroelectric plants, Energy “T” to support RE transportation such as electric bullet train routes powered by RE, Energy "C" COOPS for small communities only needing a small quantity of turbines, and Energy “I” for needed infrastructure high voltage power lines to the RE site. Bonds will have the project name and include an artist’s perspective of the project and an American flag. President Obama had great success with the internet during his campaign. In a similar manner, using the internet, energy bonds could have a website listing current projects and an “electronic checkout” could purchase a bond $25 or higher. Simpler methods of payment such as “PAYPAL” and credit cards would be available and after an electronic purchase is complete a color print out of the bond is available with a follow up of the bond in the mail. The website would limit quantity of projects for each category until funding is complete. After a project becomes funded, a new project will be available. A tab on the site will show history and status of previous projects. Purchasers may take great pride in “collecting” and displaying bonds of various RE projects and participating at different levels of financial support. Solar trough plants in the multi-hundred MW size capacity with molten salt energy storage in California, Arizona, and West Texas can provide a major portion of electric needs. North Dakota has potential to support 1/3 of our nations electric needs in it’s class 4 wind zone areas. There are plenty of suitable proposed wind turbine farms now around the nation to significantly increase our RE if funded. Mid sized hydro-electric has not been used in America to it’s full potential. Following the example of our neighbor, Canada, it would provide a significant increase in percentage of electric production. Developing all three we could provide the majority of our electric and heating needs through renewable energy in a "New New Deal" fashion allowing natural gas for transportation as T. Boone Pickens is working for. Bullet train routes have proven a viable alternative to commercial domestic air service and when powered by electricity provided by RE suppliers America would be in the forefront of world technology. Example, I heard of discussion for a commuter train from Denver to Colorado Springs. Such a route built as a renewable energy project with charter requirement legally requiring to only purchase electricity from available renewable energy sources would be a model example. There are many train routes, city bus systems, and government vehicles that can be converted to run from alternative energy sources and fuels. Jobs created would bolster the economy, lower trade deficit, and strengthen national security. I would take great pride in print outs of bonds with graphics of each project I supported and many other Americans would also. The energy bonds could have tax breaks. BLM lands may be a viable place to start for some projects.

I contacted the US treasury department and was told that the marketing department for savings bonds closed several years ago. I was told there would be problems because savings bonds are at the federal level while the projects will be at the state and local level. I disagree and believe that these can easily be figured out in the way of grants to the state and local level using money from the bonds for those specific projects. I was told to check out auctions on the www.treasurydirect.gov website and found them to not apply to citizens wanting to buy savings bonds to support a cause such as energy independance. I was told by the treasury department to look into CREB (Clean Renewable Energy Bonds). I found CREB to be large scale funding that a citizen would not be able to participate in as a US Treasury Energy Independance Bond would provide. If given the tools to participate directly, the power of the citizens of the United States to help achieve energy independance could not be denied. Americans mean well and the Energy Independance Savings bond program will give citizens the power at their level to make it happen. If marketed through a web page, commercials, and to federal employees the word would get out and participation would spread like wildfire.

Mr. Paul Gipe, a resident of Bakersfield CA, an author of several books about wind energy, and recipient of multiple awards as a pioneer in the industry since the 1970's has put a letter I wrote to Senator Dorgan on this subject as well as an older letter I wrote on wind COOP in JAN07. These websites are:

http://www.wind-works.org/coopwind/RenewableEnergyBondsforEnergyIndependence.html

and

http://www.wind-works.org/articles/AmericanEnergyIndependencethroughCooperativeInvestmentinWindEnergy.html

Sincerely and very respectfully,

ETC(SW/AW) Mike Kendall USN

Mailing address: PSC 476, Box 879, FPO AP, 96322 USA

Telephone (803) 265-4756, Email: ke6cvh@yahoo.com

At 9:33pm on January 25, 2009, Richard Wickberg said…: Hi John,

I don't know how many of you have been troubled by a certain Pickens Plan member, Windenergy7, a salesman who greets new members with a sales pitch usually before we, or an official Pickens Plan greeter can welcome them into the Pickens Plan Army

If you’ve encountered this “person” or have heard complaints of such ilk, please raise your complaints to all Regional Leaders as this “shyster” is playing havoc in my group and very few of the new people he greets first will join our group!

Thank You,
Richard Wickberg
District Leader WA-05

At 4:26am on January 18, 2009, Rodney E. Hanan said…: Hi John, Welcome aboard from a fellow Lakeview"ite' Good to see you in the group.

At 10:04am on January 2, 2009, Joe Bellisario; 2009 District Leader said…: TKS John I do not have a clue what goes on in Oregon: I have a coal plant spewing Mercury and arsenic into a river 1 mile form the plant and we get all their crap in the air down here east of them at the beach area. i do not care who is in what group but i will try to use this format to try to clean up this area. i am proud of you for your taking a leader role. i hope some day we can meet.

Happy New Year to you and YOURS

Joe