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Sen. John McCain sounds off on Washington algae project
I am not a Twitter follower of Sen. John McCain, so I appreciate the reader who passed on the former presidential candidate's Tweet stream from today. McCain -- who has 1.5 million followers -- started a new feature recently called "Pork Barrel Wednesday" where he Tweets information about government projects that in his mind are wasting taxpayer's money.
Today, McCain took on the Energy & Water conference report, pointing specifically to a $2 million project for "Algae Research" in Washington state. It was unclear from McCain's Tweet where that money was going or why he objected to it.
A project from the conference report -- supported by Senators Patty Murray, Maria Cantwell and U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee -- is titled Algae Biofuels Research. But the report doesn't shed too many details on it.
The Seattle area does have some companies which are looking into the concept of using algae to create biofuels, including Redmond-based Bionavitas and Seattle-based Blue Marble Energy. University of Washington biology professor Rose Ann Cattolico also is studying the topic, with a new company emerging from her research called AXI.
Other projects that McCain put into his top 10 pork barrel list include: $1 million for the Alaska Climate Center; $2.25 million for the Montana Bio-Energy Center of Excellence; and $6 million for the Hawaii Renewable Energy Development Venture.
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