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Oct 27, 2008 5:04 pm US/Mountain

Renewable Energy Industry Ready For Change

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Upcoming CBS4 Campaign '08 Election Coverage

by Michael Choy, cbs4denver.com
DENVER (CBS4) ―

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Click to enlarge 2 of 2: More than 400 leaders in the renewable energy industry gathered for the National Renewable Energy Marketing Conference in Denver Monday, Oct. 27, 2008.
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One of the organizers behind the National Renewable Energy Marketing Conference in Denver this week believes whoever is elected president on Nov. 4, the new administration will positively change the federal government's support for green issues and "climate-friendly" technologies.

The United States government has failed to be a world leader on the issues of climate change and renewable energy under President Bush, said Arthur O'Donnell, executive director of the Center for Resource Solutions (CRS).

More than 400 industry leaders are attending their biggest annual gathering Monday through Wednesday at the Denver Marriott City Center. CRS is sponsoring the gathering along with the U.S. Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency.

O'Donnell said despite an unfriendly administration in the White House, local and state governments have worked together and with the private sector to help foster renewable energy development during the past decade.

Both John McCain and Barack Obama have promised to expand funding for renewable energy if elected president. McCain has also more aggressively pushed the idea of nuclear power plants.

Both candidates have also talked about so-called clean coal technologies, which O'Donnell calls a myth. O'Donnell said the process of just extracting coal causes pollution.

O'Donnell said Denver was picked as the site for this year's conference because of the city and state's leadership on renewable energy under Mayor John Hickenlooper and Gov. Bill Ritter. O'Donnell said the West has also been home to development of many clean energy solutions like solar and wind power, partly because of the favorable conditions for those technologies in the West.

While the West may have been a regional leader in renewable energy, O'Donnell said now is the time for the entire country to embrace these technologies by buying renewable energy, along with cutting back on electricity use wherever possible.