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CONTACT: Eric Bonetti
PHONE: 202/326-9300
FAX: 202/326-9334
E-MAIL: ebonetti@erols.com
Washington, DC -- The Natural Gas Supply Association has unveiled a new
Internet site, <http://www.renewable.org>, for materials on renewable energy.
The new site details economic and environmental reasons to reject mandated
use of renewables. This issue is important to natural gas producers because,
studies show, such mandates could dramatically reduce growth opportunities for
natural gas while raising electricity costs, contributing nothing to energy security,
and in many cases increasing damage to the environment.
The site will assist efforts to stop congressional mandate initiatives. It will
also be a resource for the several thousand students participating in the National
Forensic Association's high school debate competition on renewables policy. "A
separate site will help people find our material," said Charlotte LeGates, NGSA's
director of industry and public relations.
NGSA has been fighting renewables mandate bills for more than a year has
only just begun to use materials pointing to the downsides of renewables. "Many
members of Congress agreed with our economic arguments against mandates,"
LeGates said, "but they were wary of being labeled "anti-environmental.' We realized
that policymakers and the public needed the environmental and economic facts
about both renewables and natural gas."
"Renewables have an important place in the energy marketplace; but it is a
place they must earn," LeGates concluded. "There is no reason to guarantee them a
market that would otherwise go to environmentally friendly, reliable, and cost-effective natural gas."
The Natural Gas Supply Association represents producers and marketers of domestic natural gas.
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This page was last updated September 19, 1997.