Creative Energies Blog

by Scott Kane

These have been exciting days for politics in Wyoming. Not only were we graced by nearly simultaneous visits from two presidential candidates and a former president but all three of them made prominent statements about clean and renewable energy.

Creative Energies staff and families attended the addresses by Senator Obama in Casper and Laramie and by President Clinton in Riverton.

One of Senator Obama’s biggest applause lines in his Laramie rally was a statement about the job growth and economic development that can be attained through the development of clean coal, solar and wind power. We at Creative Energies are bold enough to remind our readers (including the senator, if he is among them) that only two of these technologies are well developed, proven and currently ready for wide scale deployment. Though clean coal has a chance of becoming an important low-carbon fuel source, it is still in an early phase of its development. In the mean-time, we encourage our national and local leaders to advocate for the well-tried and rapidly expanding technologies in wind and solar power.