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Here is an excerpt from OSU’s press release:
SEAL BEACH, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oklahoma State University (OSU) has awarded Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (Nasdaq: CLNE) a new 15-year contract to construct, operate and supply a new compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling station on the OSU campus at Stillwater, OK. The facility will support the University’s accelerating program to replace most of its diesel bus and gasoline-powered fleet vehicles with energy-efficient, environmentally friendly CNG models.
The new Clean Energy OSU CNG station, which will also be open to the public, will be located on the Southeast corner of Lakeview and Western on the Stillwater campus. Slated for opening by Fall 2009, the new facility will be equipped with two fast-fill CNG dispensers plus 24 time-fill CNG dispensers to supply fuel for the OSU’s growing CNG campus bus fleet. OSU has announced plans to acquire and deploy 24 new CNG transit buses and 150 CNG fleet vehicles in the next three years, with up to 500 fleet vehicles anticipated within 10 years.
“Our goal is to have most of the vehicles designated for campus use equipped to run on CNG,” said OSU President Burns Hargis. “This is a big step in moving OSU forward with its green initiatives. As a premier land-grant university, it is important that we are good stewards of the earth.”
OSU has been evaluating alternative fuel options for several years, and has now opted to focus on CNG for its campus fleets. “Clean Energy is the leader in the growing CNG arena, and we look forward to working with them on this important initiative,” President Hargis said.
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Hat tip: OkStateNews
“The hope is that provisions such as those included in the House stimulus bill to restore the effectiveness of the tax incentives for renewable energy will quickly become law and provide the capital needed to continue to build projects.” -AWEA’s CEO, Denise Bode
We all remember from our high school English classes the Latin phrase Julius Caesar uttered in Shakespeare’s play of the same name when he realized he was being betrayed by his loyal friend Brutus: “Et tu Brute?” (“Even you, Brutus?”)
Well that’s how we felt this morning when we received this tip in our inbox. Ms. Bode was a speaker yesterday in Washington at the “Green Jobs National Conference” which was sponsored by a Democratic Party front group called the Blue Green Alliance. Check out the roster of invited speakers:
Leo W. Gerard, international president, United Steelworkers.
Achim Steiner, United Nations Environment Program executive director, United Nations Under-Secretary General.
Larry Cohen, president, Communications Workers of America.
Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn. (Our first Muslim Congressman)
Denise Bode, CEO, American Wind Energy Association.
Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce
Peter Lehner, executive director, Natural Resources Defense Council.
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Our friends over at The Lost Ogle linked to this post we did last week ridiculing the spelling errors in an OSU promotional piece. Their readers found a few more spelling challenged examples:
Below.
“OSU freshman Martel Van Zant runs down the field of Boone Pickens Stadium. Van Zant has been death since birth….”
A suggestion for Mr. Hargis – you may want to spare the English and promotions departments when you consider your budget cuts!
OSU officials are deciding how to cut nearly $1.5 million from this fiscal year’s budget for the Stillwater campus.
OSU President Burns Hargis and other administrators decided in September that 1 percent of the budget has to be cut because undergraduate enrollment is lower than expected this fall.
Deans have until Monday to revise their budgets accordingly.
OSU Provost Marlene Strathe said the cut could result in planned-for equipment not being purchased and faculty and staff positions possibly not being filled next year. Read more…
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Instead of doing videos pitching T. Boondogle Picken’s wind energy plan, maybe Oklahoma State University President Burns Hargis should be focusing more of his attention on making sure OSU ad materials have the correct spelling!
Instead of doing videos pitching T. Boondogle Picken’s wind energy plan, maybe Oklahoma State University President Burns Hargis should be focusing more of his attention on making sure OSU ad materials have the correct spelling!
From Stan Geiger – An Oklahoma Blog:
Chesapeake Energy, a top nat gas producer, has been particularly active in the political arena of late. It, along with super OSU benefactor Boone Pickens, has been pushing nat gas as a transportation fuel. Hargis, in addition to being president of state-funded OSU, is a longstanding Oklahoma political operative. Immediately upon getting hired as OSU prez he got appointed Chesapeake director, and now, all of the sudden, he’s a sizable shareholder in the company.
Well now, this makes for an interesting game of connect the dots. Read more…
The wheels are falling off of Oklahoma City’s once-proud television news organization, KFOR.
Problems began after The New York Times Company sold KFOR in 2007 to Local TV LLC, a limited liability company owned by Oak Hill Capitol which was formed to buy the nine television stations owned by the Times.
Industry observers say that morale at the station is at an all-time low, and that the management put into place by Local TV LLC is a disaster. “Watch for the exodus of talent from KFOR in the very near future,” one local television expert tells OKPNS. He goes on to say that even long-time KFOR news folks are nervous due to Local TV LLC’s poor news acumen and miserly business practices. “I doubt long-time viewers will recognize anybody at KFOR by the end of the year if something isn’t done right away,” he says.
The station is being beaten in some key demographic categories it used to own, and Chopper4 has been all but grounded due to budget concerns. Further, their once proud political talk show Flashpoint has lost its mojo: News9’s Your Vote Counts is creating the buzz in political circles these days. The loss of Burns Hargis, bad programming decisions and revelations of co-host Mike Turpen’s blatant ethical lapses have all but sunk the formerly respectable political talk show.
Developing…..
Not a too surprising development after it was revealed that Hargis was “in agreement” with Chesapeake’s clandestine efforts earlier this year to repeal the wildly popular HB 1804. Below is an excerpt from our series:
“For those not reeling from the hilarious and inept planning musings, comic relief is just around the corner when you examine the comments about the state chamber, Agriculture Commissioner Terry Peach (“he said he will get out front on this”); the governor (“He needs to take a stand on something of substance, this is the right issue”); the Indian Affairs Commission (“it amazes me that they keep quiet on this when they were treated so poorly by the “first immigrants”). Further, the writer pens some unflattering remarks from what appears to be Dirty Harry include Lieutenant Governor Jari Askins (“not want to rock the boat”)
Green County Values blog has their own take on Hargis’ appointment:
“A lot of us have been wondering why it was so important for V. Burns Hargis to go to work at Oklahoma State University in March instead of waiting until July (in plenty of time for the school year to start), that we had to change Oklahoma law on allowing University Regents to hire themselves (changing the wait time from one year to six months)….It also put him in a good position to help Chesapeake Energy fight the enforcement of HB 1804, the immigration bill Oklahomans worked so hard to pass. (It’s probably a coincidence that one of the recent large donors was Chesapeake…?)” Read more…
Before being unanimously approved by the Oklahoma A&M Board of Regents as OSU’s 18th president, V. Burns Hargis held an open forum with OSU faculty, staff and students at the Student Union Theater. Hat tip: The Daily O’Collegian
Ed Kelley provides analysis of Burns Hargis being named OSU’s new president.