Natural Gas: A Bridge to the Future or Bridge to Nowhere?

The Energy Gang

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🗓️ 31 January 2014

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In his latest State of the Union address, President Obama once again called natural gas a "bridge" to the clean energy future. But is the resource really all the industry claims? We'll take a nuanced look at dynamics in the natural gas market, and ask whether it's helpful or hurtful to renewable energy. We'll also discuss the energy and climate piece of Obama's State of the Union Speech, as well as dissect the forces behind the booming solar jobs market. The Energy Gang is produced by Greentechmedia.com. The show features weekly discussion between energy futurist Jigar Shah, energy policy expert Katherine Hamilton and Greentech Editor Stephen Lacey. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	For the Green Tech Media. I'm Stephen Lacey, senior editor with Green Tech Media, behind the mic in Washington, D.C.
0:21.8	And spread out over different points throughout D.C. brought together digitally, is
0:25.8	the rest of the gang. Catherine Hamilton is at her office is downtown. She's the founder of
0:30.4	38 North Solutions, a clean energy public policy consulting firm.
0:34.3	Catherine, how are you this afternoon?
0:36.3	Just great, it's a balmy 30-something degrees now.
0:40.1	Yeah, it feels a lot better.
0:42.2	And you know, we were just visiting you at your offices this morning,
0:45.0	and I swear you are up to something covert over there.
0:49.0	I mean, the check-in process to your building is intense.
0:51.0	I thought they were gonna like scan my eyeballs or
0:53.7	asked for a DNA sample. Yeah, we're pretty secretive over here at 38 North.
0:58.8	So I'm not sure where he is in the city he could be podcasting from a taxi for all I know it's Jigger Shaw
1:06.6	Fresh from a book signing event here in the city. Jigger is of course the author of creating climate wealth and he's also an investor in the
1:14.0	space. Jigger how's it going how is the book signing event? It was awesome you know I was
1:19.2	doing it with the Wharton Energy Club and it's pretty amazing how powerful this club is.
1:24.8	They get their own tables at the National Press Club
1:27.4	and all sorts of other things.
1:28.6	It's pretty kind of fun.
1:29.8	So people have been responding to the book pretty well?
1:32.4	Yeah, you know, I think a lot of folks are looking for sort of a way to make sense of it all, so it'll be interesting.
1:38.0	Well, they have this podcast as well.
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