Work to be done
So KKR is a work in progress to say the least. For they haven’t forsaken all carbon-intensive practices.
So their partnership now is with Premier Natural Resources LLC in Tulsa, Oklahoma. For they buy oil and gas fields as also reported by CNBC. Again, talking about a KKR is about being a work in progress.
As they reported:
In the buyout boom that ran from 2005 to 2007, KKR was involved in huge deals such as the $32 billion buyout of energy company TXU Corp. It now has $61 billion of assets under management, with three core businesses of private equity, fixed income and capital markets.
A venture with Hilcorp Energy Co. drills shale gas deposits in Texas.
While TXU as an energy company is now renamed. Their new name is Energy Future Holdings Corporation. For it is sticking to its promises with EDF. That’s the utility of the 12th- largest carbon emitter among U.S.
For a fossil-fuel-burning power producers report in 2008. It was a study published in 2010 by the New York- based Natural Resources Defense Council found. It found in 2006 NRDC report that TXU ranked as the 13th largest.
“This is very much a work in progress,” says Ralph Cavanagh, co-director of the NRDC’s energy program.
TXU’s 3 new coal-fired plants — the ones whittled down from the proposed 11.
As Fortune reported:
And then there is TXU (Charts).
A $10.4-billion-a-year energy company based in Dallas, TXU is staking its future on coal – the dirtiest of all fuels used to generate electricity. Last spring the company announced plans to build 11 new coal-fired power plants in Texas at a cost of nearly $1 billion apiece. That has set off a firestorm of opposition – lawsuits, pickets, petitions, anti-TXU Web sites, lobbying at the state capitol, even a hunger strike.
Conclusion
In conclusion, one environmental group calculated that the new plants would generate 78 million tons of CO2 each year. For that’s more than the emissions of Sweden, Denmark, or Portugal. Texas already ranks first in the U.S. in carbon emissions.
For they are adding an extra 22 million tons of CO2 to the atmosphere every year, says Tom Smith. Finally, he is Texas director of Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group founded by Ralph Nader.
