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[ Saturday, February 24, 2007 14:39 ]

Legacy Journal: The new Rainbow Coalition- Color Coded Electrons

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Government

Summary:
On Friday, 2007-02-23, the Environmental Law Student Group at King Hall, the UCDavis School of Law CO hosted the annual Enviroment Law Symposium and MCLE conference. This year, the theme was voluntary , mandated, legislated and regulated CO2 emissions controls in the state of Califonia. The format was panel presentations, discussion, and Q&A at the campus Buehler Alumni Center. The day was warm, bright, sunny, clear and wind free.

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* In the coffee wakeup, one attorney with emeritus status, experience as a Judge appointed to the California Supreme Court, and a Harvard Law education referred to himself in informal conversation as a “citizen of the state of California.”

That set the tone for the rest of the morning. The residents and the elites of the Golden State clearly see themselves as citizens of a defacto, trend setting, economically powerful and political potent, nation-state.

* The keynote speaker was a breezy native of Australia with a background in sheep ranching ,consulting, and writing. He book from Island Press was for sale in the lobby.

* The three morning panelists were all bright, articulate and well informed career women. Thankfully, they left there Power Point presentations at the office and gave fast paced and timed introductions describing who they represented, what they did, and how the did their jobs.

One was a manager at a Sacramento “voluntary early mover” NPO that administers a Registry of willing responders to the carrot of preferential status in future greenhouse gas emission standards, incentives, burdens and benefits.

Another was an Environmental Policy attorney from the San Francisco Spear Tower corporate offices of PG&E.

The third was an engineer from Sacramento based consulting firm that does compliance work for companies and public entities like small cities, like Davis, with significant public service fleets of vehicles.

Each was skilled at simultaneously PRing, selling, spinning, advocating shmoozing and networking.

* It was clear that the more arresting metaphor of the day was “color coded electrons” so that the source of power used to generate current for the power grid can be identified and monitored. The color black would be used for Texas based coal generated electrons, red for nuclear power plant electrons, blue for hydroelectric, white for wind, yellow of photo voltaic, green for biomass, and purple for natural gas. TXU, one of the “big bad guys on block” was much on the minds of the panelists. In addition, carbon unit trading had the ring of “Big Bucks” but there was a note of uncertain about the motives and methods of the players, the future of a more rational mechanism for evaluation, transparency, validation, certification and accountability.

Pounds of C02 released per kilowatt/hr of current is the present unit preferred by PG&E. “Carbon neutral”, “60% overall C02 reduction by year 20 --”, and a “smaller CO2 footprint were also borrowed terms that were bandied about.

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