“Kennedy also urged the renewable-energy industry to make natural gas companies their friends. While many natural-gas companies still see themselves as more aligned with oil and coal than with renewables, some — such as Chesapeake Energy and T. Boone Pickens’ company, Mesa Power — have begun to realize they are environmentalists, Kennedy said.”

This company, and its head CEO, Aubrey McClendon, is not interested in the environment. McClendon is hoping to recoup his billion dollar loss last year, as well as the company’s investment (and McClendon’s stock shares) in the mineral rights on about 1.5 million acres in southern New York, Pennsylvania and West Virginia that are part of the Marcellus Shale. Retrieving natural gas from the Marcellus shale is not “clean energy.” The gas is only reachable by a technique called hydrofracking, in which a mix of water and drilling chemicals are injected under pressure to fracture rock to release trapped gas. There are not enough agents working at the DEC to ensure our land and water are not polluted, as has already happened in Pennsylvania. The chemicals (from Halliburton) are toxic and are so many that it is impossible for landowners to test their wells and property conclusively prior to Chesapeake’s drilling. Afterwords, it will be impossible for the landowner to prove that the pollutants present in the soil/water weren’t present before the drilling took place. Then, Chesapeake cannot be held accountable and they will walk away with their coffers full, unaccountable to landowners left with uninhabitable/unsellable land. How is this considered environmental? Please don’t paint Chesapeake Energy as being so, or of this kind of natural gas being “clean.” It is not.
It is interesting to note that McClendon operates a foundation, “American Clean Skies Foundation,” which exists solely to “teach” the idea that natural gas is “clean.” Hydrofracking is not clean; this is propaganda and I fail to see how it is allowed to function as a non-profit. Please, if you really consider yourself an environmentalist, look into this.

Melting ice cap, we got
Water pollution, we got
Coal soot in our cities, we got
Smoke from tobacco, we know
1 and 1 and 1 is 3
Do it for our children
Folk’s we’ve got a planet to get clean
Come together, renewable energys, lets go green!

Mr. Kennedy’s video is under the video player program tab: Keynotes

http://www.solarpowerinternational.com/conference/video/