'Right Kinds of Behavior' Needed for 'Clean Energy Future,' Says Interior Secretary

(CNSNews.com) - The "new energy future" will require the federal government to encourage "the right kinds of behavior," Interior Secretary Sally Jewell told a clean energy summit in Nevada on Tuesday.

"When you are getting into a new energy future, you really benefit from having the support of states -- and the federal government encouraging the right kinds of behavior and encouraging those incentives (for solar panel installation), she said.

Jewell mentioned the "right" kind of behavior twice in her speech, without specifically saying what it means. But she did give some hints.

In the first reference, Jewell was discussing the various ways that REI reduced its carbon footprint when she chaired the company. She said REI's carbon-reduction efforts began as "random acts of kindness -- things like encouraging people, including employees, to ride bikes to work; using green energy where we could, recycling and those things...."

Jewell's second reference to the “right” kind of behavior came at the end of her speech:

"If we're going to address climate change, we need to pull together as leaders to make it happen -- leaders in business, leaders in utilities, leaders in states, leaders in private industry, leaders in government, and leaders as individuals. We need to wake up and look at the landscapes and admit what's happening around us. We need to ask ourselves, how can we be part of the solution? How can we provide incentives to reward and incent the right behavior? How can we hold each other accountable?"

For those of you who have never been to Nevada:

I live in rural N Nevada. Not that rural-—only on parcels which are about 5 acres. In NE Nevada, there are ranches of over 5,000 acres!!

My bank==17 miles one way. This is the NEAREST bank to where I live.

Full grocery store—not Wal-Mart===21 miles away,one way, but that one is very expensive & I go to a more reasonable priced one that is 24 1/2 miles away-—ONE WAY.

I don’t even know where the nearest cleaners might be.

Nearest Wal-Mart is about 19 miles, and Lowe’s is across the street from Wal-Mart.

There is just one gas station in the small town where I live. But- 2 small casinos !!!

I don’t live as rural as possible here in Nevada.

It is alot of chutzpah for any ‘Interior Secretary’ to be standing in THIS state and telling us about ‘changing our lives to suit the idea of green energy.

BTW- a large solar farm in S Nevada has been cancelled by a Chinese company. NO reason given.

A number of geothermal wells have been dug about 15 miles from me, and we were told that they would all be tied together & a power distribution station would be built near the same town as my bank. Suddenly, the plans for the power distribution station have been dropped without any explanation——but the geothermal wells are still being dug all over. A mystery.

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