Everything John Hickenlooper said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Hickenlooper: House reconciliation bill proposed taxing all wind and solar energy
“The House bill came over and it had a tax on all wind energy and solar energy. So no, no longer are we going to give them tax credits, but we're going to, you know, we're going to tax them.”
Hickenlooper: Environmental nonprofits fund overhead by opposing and slowing development
“Part of it is we have to recognize that all these non, non-profit organizations, they are organisms. They have a life of their own, and like any organism, they're gonna, they don't wanna make themselves extinct. And so they've been raising money to pay for the…”
Hickenlooper: Manchin secretly remained in IRA talks despite public walkout
“He told the press he was out, he was done. I saw him the next morning, had a nice, 15 minute happy chat, and I said, well, you're not really Over, you're not quitting, right? And he goes, no, but I'm going to let him think it for a while. Just I need space. Yo…”
Hickenlooper: IRA would have been 5x larger under progressive Democrats' plan
“Trust me, if the progressive part of the Democratic Party had gotten their way, this bill would have been five times bigger than it ended up being.”
Hickenlooper: 85% of IRA Renewable Investments Go to Red States
“So, 85% of the Inflation Reduction Act, environmental, you know, renewable energy investments were going into red states. Two-thirds of the jobs are in red states.”
Hickenlooper: New DOI rules require three appointee review levels for projects
“The Department of Interior now is creating new rules that requires, you know, three different levels of political appointees to review each, you know, every action that the DOI, the Department of Interior takes, which is gonna, you know, it's gonna slow down a…”
Hickenlooper: 25% to 33% chance permitting reform passes in three years
“Well, let's say in the next three years, I think it's got a, I don't know, 25, 30, 33% chance.”
Hickenlooper hosted dinners with Rio Tinto's CEO and environmental leaders
“So that's one place where, you know, I've done dinners at my house where I had the CEO of Rio Tinto and some of the largest mining companies sitting with the CEOs of a couple of the largest nonprofit environmental communities, just describing, don't we have an…”
Hickenlooper: Power turbine procurement lead times are four to six years
“It takes, it's four to six years to get a turbine from GE or whoever manufactures the turbines but four to six years to get one, that's a long time to wait when you're trying to ramp up capacity in, in the short term.”
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