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...bottled water is already a $30 billion global industry, the technological challenge of shipping bulk quantities of freshwater between distant points and distributing it to customers has so far stumped some major would-be players. For example, Azurix, a water-retailing company and a subsidiary of the energy multinational Enron, is struggling. "Enron thought it could use its expertise as a commodity trader to market water like energy," says Debra Coy, a water analyst with Charles Schwab. "But water is more complex politically...
...paper, the New York Times almost helpfully put another story atop its business section. "Some Energy Executives Urge U.S. Shift on Global Warming," went the headline, and the gist of the story was that the same energy companies casually vilified as Bush?s corrupters by poll respondents - BP Amoco, Enron, Royal Dutch/Shell - have actually begun making major moves to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions on their own. And they?re wondering when Bush is going to catch...
...Bush could convince his friend, Enron CEO Kenneth Lay, to squawk even louder than Jack Welch, he might get those 2004 soccer-mom votes...
...decade. So far, most of India's estimated $100 million annual spending on renewable-energy plants is going to Indian companies or firms such as Denmark's NEG Micon, which in 2000 had 9.1% of India's wind market--more than four times the share of the U.S. firm Enron. Says Dale Vince, managing director of Next Generation, which erected a large wind turbine for Britain's Sainsbury's grocery chain: "The export market will be colossal for wind energy, and the U.S. is lagging behind the Europeans...
...sure, Enron has opened a new wind turbine plant south of Madrid, right in the heart of the European market. And Cannon, a U.S. wind-energy developer, has launched big projects in Turkey. But the wind turbines Cannon is installing are made by Danish firms...