EU Backtracks from Climate Change Aid, Looks to US for Greater Contribution : Red, Green, and Blue

With developing countries refusing to act on reducing their carbon emissions and United States not yet ready with its cap and trade scheme or the carbon tax legislation, Europe has backed out from contributing to the climate change fund fearing that it might face a backlash at home.

Eternal Sunshine is Allegedly Maine's Power Answer

Our company, GridSolar, is a Portland-based company that's proposed to develop distributed solar generation and a smart electric grid to meet projected peak loads in Maine instead of spending $1.5 billion on transmission projects that are unnecessary, obsolete, too expensive and highly controversial. On an average day, the amount of solar energy that hits Maine is more than the total amount of energy Mainers use in an entire year - yes, that's right - more than all of the heating oil, gasoline, electricity, coal, biomass, cordwood and all other fuels combined.

We don't need to spend billions of dollars on transmission to import energy from Canada, when spending that same amount of money on distributed solar generation here in Maine will provide us energy at about 3 cents a kilowatt-hour for 20 years, will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by the same amount as taking 100,000 cars off the road and will create far more jobs - long-term jobs - than any money spent on unnecessary transmission.