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Subject: Alternative Energy

  • Neighborhood Group Sues City over Bayview Hunters Point Biodiesel Plant

    If a neighborhood group has its way, it may be a while before you see a scene such as this in San FranciscoA Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood group last week filed suit against the city planning department alleging San Francisco trampled environmental laws when it exempted a proposed biodiesel plant from having to undergo an Environmental Impact Report back in 2008. Back in September, the city ruled that Darling International's plan to add a biodiesel facility capable of producing 7.5 million

    March 9, 2009
  • Billionaire Oilman's Traveling Green Energy Road Show Hits S.F.

    Daniel KramerT. Boone PickensAs Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens hits San Francisco tonight in his ongoing tour promoting a curtailing of foreign oil imports and a bolstering of domestic clean energy (in which he is invested to the gills), a long, strange article about Pickens' long, strange trip hit the racks of our sister paper, the Minneapolis City Pages.  Here are a few choice passages from Chris Vogel's story about Pickens, as unlikely a figure as ever to be embraced in green, progres

    March 25, 2009
  • Fortunate Sun

    September 17, 2008
  • Cooking with Gas

    December 5, 2007
  • The Tide Is High

    June 14, 2006
  • Water on the Brain

    One energy executive claims a tidal system that meets the city's electric needs could be built in over 20 years, at a cost of $1.5 billion

    October 15, 2003
  • Whirly Birds

    The wind-power entrepreneurs at Kenetech have spent millionsin vain tosolve this avian mystery: Why have hundredsof raptors, including golden eagles, died alongside the windmills of Altamont Pass?

    March 29, 1995