“Enormous economic gains can be obtained through conservation, and many of those gains are distributed widely among all citizens,” said Bob Decker, executive director of the Helena-based Policy Institute http://thepolicyinstitute.us/index.html .
The Institute said the new Office of Energy Conservation would employ four-to-six people and have an annual budget of $500,000 to $750,000. It would be funded by reinstating oil-and-gas taxes that were cut in 1999, the Institute said.
Decker said a state conservation office would help put into place recommendations from Gov. Brian Schweitzer’s Climate Change Advisory Committee — as well as complement the Schweitzer administration’s current energy policy, which mostly emphasizes energy development.
By MIKE DENNISON, IR State Bureau
Full Story: http://helenair.com/articles/2008/01/10/state/102st_080110_thinktank.txt
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