[Ed. Note: Paola Mayorga is a 21-year-old Missouri City woman who won a contest sponsored by Reliant Energy for a trip to the Latin Grammys, including backstage and green carpet access and accomodations at the Four Seasons. Rocks Off asked her to write up her experience.]
Paola Mayorga and her mother Giovanna on the green carpet
Since the moment that I got the call from the representatives of Reliant Energy, it’s been kind of like a dream. At first I didn’t believe it was true and it was
Those wily IT guys.A computer tech who was a contract worker
for the energy giant Calpine is going to federal prison for a year and
a day because he hacked into an employee's computer and used it for
nefarious purposes.Actually, not all that nefarious -- he used
the financial information contained on the computer to receive a little
more than $6,000 in loans "from various online financial loan
institutions," according to the US Attorney's office.Six thousand bucks? In loans, not straight-up cash
Photo courtesy NIOSHIn case you were worrying that the air in Texas was getting too clean and all, you can rest assured it's not.Now it's coal ash that has the greenies up in arms.The National Resources Defense Council has released a list of states that are proposing to build enough new coal plants to produce 14 million tons of what they call "dangerous waste." As a sideline, the plants will also produce electricity.And Texas is Number One on the list!! Hurrah!! (Cough. Hack up black mucus.)Ther
General T. Boone Pickens is invading Washington, D.C. tomorrow. Well, virtually. Members of his New Energy Army, numbering somewhere between 1.5 and 3 million strong, are planning to bombard Congress with emails and phone calls urging lawmakers to pass legislation favorable to Pickens' plan to use less foreign oil and more wind power and natural gas. The three day campaign on Capitol Hill will last through Friday and Pickens' troops are getting keyed up."It's going to be a lot of fun to see
