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Energy Summit, New Orleans
Posted by Kathy Webb on 29-Sep-2009
Just returned from National Women's Leadership Summit on Energy in New Orleans. It was amazing, with 250 women policy makers, business leaders, academics, and regulators discussing ways to halt climate change, increase energy security and independence, promote economic development, and ease the transition from a fossil fuel economy to the future.

Debate on climate change? Not really. The first speaker, the CEO of Entergy Louisiana, said "the debate over climate change is over."  Wow! She then said "it isn't going to go away-it will just get worse" if we don't act. Wow again!

Speaker after speaker, from academia, UTILITY companies AND oil and gas producers echoed that sentiment. Amazing!

And while I left NOLA with a lot of ideas, my main "take-away" was the presentation from utility company executives who said their companies are in agreement that climate change is happening, and one executive said we needed to "decarbonize electricity by 2050."

I reflected back to the last session and the months of work on the Global Warming Commission, and the persistent belief that I encountered from those who continue to deny climate change is happening. Well, the 250 women I spent the weekend with, representing big oil, shareholder owned utilities, investor-owned utilities, public utilities, and natural gas producers spoke with a very different voice from what I heard in AR. I hope we spoke loudly enough so folks at home could hear.
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