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Spkr. Nancy “Lights-Out” Pelosi’s Ties to OSU Donor, T. Boone “Windmills” Pickens

Posted in GCV - Business/Economics, GCV - State News, GCV - U.S. News by Jenn on August 11, 2008

Remember a few weeks ago, when oilman T. Boone Pickens gave so much money to OSU that the state is now in a fix, trying to meet its obligatory matching-program goals? It was all part of V. Burns Hargis and friends changing Oklahoma law so to make it easier for university boards of directors to hire themselves (then to subsequently be appointed to a large energy company’s board of directors).

That same T. Boone Pickens has recently made national news with his “Pickens Plan,” to increase the use of Natural Gas and Windpower. Sounds like a good idea, right? Even Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) thought so.

But wait…there’s more!

William R. Collier Jr., at #dontgo, is reporting that Nancy “Turn out the lights” Pelosi’s 2007 financial disclosures reveal that she and T. Boone are involved in a rather elaborate eminent domain land grab, aimed at monopolizing water sources, and making a ton of money from wind power. Gee, I wonder if this is the reason Pelosi doesn’t want Congress to vote on drilling?

Collier writes:

“Nancy Pelosi says that she is trying to save the planet and prevent global warming, but the reality is that, according to disclosure statements, in May 2007 she invested in T. Boone Picken’s clean energy fuels corp., CLNE, which is the sole sponsor of a proposal in California to funnel $5 billion in state funds and $5 billion in Federal funs to this corporation which will indirectly help them create a giant wind farm in the Texas panhandle.

“An overlooked story in November of 2007 shows that the T. Boone Pickens plan involves the private control of water, which Pickens wants to be able to sell to big cities via giant water pipelines which will be built on land seized under immanent domain.

“How did he do this? He did this by pushing through a “water district” which consists of only 8 acres of land and then applying eminent domain to expand that district and seize land from local ranchers which, in the end, puts vital water resources under his private control…(more)”

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