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FOCUS: Dakota Pipeline and Geprag's Park Vermont Protests Unify 11/02/2016

Channel 17 host Margaret Harrington gets together with Kevin Kamps, of Beyond Nuclear, Jane Palmer, of Rising Tide, Vermont, and Dr. Rachel Smolker, of Protect Geprag's Park, to talk about the unification of the Dakota Oil Access Pipeline Protest with the Fracked Gas Pipeline Protest in Addison County, Vermont. The activists emphasize the main similarity, which is that corporate interests take precedence over the needs and wishes of the people and the environment. Elected officials and those running for office are noncommittal. President Obama states he will wait to see how the Dakota Pipeline plays out while 140 Native American protesters are arrested and caged by law enforcement officers from seven states. Meanwhile, the Bundy Clan, who took over federal land by armed violence, have been acquitted by a federal jury.

Renewable Energy Conference 2015, Keynote Speaker "Yoram Bauman, Ph.D" 10/08/2015

Yoram Bauman is an environmental economist and until 2015 was a carbon tax Fellow at Sightline Institute, where he co-authored Tax Shift with Alan Durning. He has a PhD in economics from the University of Washington and works in Washington State and elsewhere on climate change economics and policy, especially carbon pricing. His most recent academic paper (“Climate sensitivity: should the climate tail wag the policy dog?”) was co-authored with UW climate scientist Gerard Roe and appeared in the April 2013 issue of Climatic Change.

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FOCUS: Phase 2 of Vermont Gas Pipeline Scrapped - Scrap Phase 1 Now 02/24/2015

Host Margaret Harrington speaks with Melanie Peyser, international rule of law development consultant, Diane Derrick, landowner along Phase 1, and Andy Simon, Burlington resident and VGS ratepayer.

Renewable Energy Conference 2014: Keynote Address by David Hochschild on "What, Why, and how of Renewable Advancements.." 10/16/2014

Keynote Speaker, Commissioner David Hochschild, describes the what, why, and how of renewable advancements in California and what Vermont may consider as we move towards our statewide goal of achieving 90% of all of our energy needs through renewables by 2050.

With a career spanning public service, environmental advocacy and the private sector, Hochschild currently serves on the California Energy Commission. His first involvement with solar energy occurred in 2001 in San Francisco as a Special Assistant to Mayor Willie Brown where he launched a citywide $100 million initiative to place solar panels on public buildings. He went on to co-found the Vote Solar Initiative, a non-profit grassroots organization working to fight climate change and foster economic opportunity by bringing solar into the mainstream. Commissioner Hochschild served as executive director of a national consortium of leading solar manufacturers and worked for five years at Solaria, a solar company in Silicon Valley. In 2007-2008, he served as a commissioner at the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.

Commissioner Hochshild has worked to implement California’s Renewal Portfolio Standard (RPS) which sets a goal of procuring 33% renewable energy by 2020. California’s three large IOUs collectively served 22.7% of their 2013 retail electricity sales with renewable power. Commissioner Hochschild will discuss the benefits and challenges of implementing and maintaining California’s RPS, and what Vermont can learn from this.

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