EPA Computerized Map of GHG Emissions, More Investors in Tres Amigas, Cape Wind Offshore on the Defensive

The Environmental Protection Agency has made available a map which shows the sources of carbon dioxide and other toxic emissions throughout the United States.   It  is an amazing, searchable, computerized map. I clicked on my hometown of Port Arthur, Texas and found every single plant's greenhouse gas emissions.  Awesome.  By the way, Port Arthur is  the destination for the Keystone XL Pipeline, assuming it ever gets built.

A Japanese firm, Mitsui, has joined European Power Exchange and Tres Amigas to partner on the U.S. hub that would allow electricity to flow more freely between grids, and, in the future, develop a trading system that could work seamlessly in a global market.  Tres Amigas President states, "With the technology that we have today, the communications we have and the environmental issues we need solved ... you've got to have a way to trade on all the derivatives and all of the other environmental constraints. There's definitely a huge need for us to find a worldwide platform."

ISO New Englands recently released report states that Cape Wind Offshore Wind Project is unlikely to be producing wind by 2015.  Cape Wind begs to differ stating that they will be running at least partially by 2015.  National Grid agreed to purchase one half of it's output, but the project is still seeking buyers for the other unsold half which is critical to getting financing for the full 130-turbine project, planned for Nantucket Sound.