DENVER, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- A lunch with Warren Buffet was just
auctioned off at $2.1 million for charity. But according to Eric O'Keefe,
editor of The Land Report, sitting down for a one-on-two lunch with T. Boone
Pickens and Ted Turner, two pioneering entrepreneurs, was priceless. Pickens
is featured on the new Fall cover of the magazine, where he reveals in depth
his highly publicized The Pickens Plan, including plans to build a $10 billion
dollar wind farm in the Texas Panhandle as well as a more personal side. The
Pickens Plan comes from a combination of more than half a century in the
energy business and his ties to and appreciation and understanding of his
beloved Mesa Vista Ranch.
Ted Turner, who was featured in the April 2007 launch issue of The Land
Report in The 100 Largest Landowners in the United States cover story, got his
ties for the land from his father and the family plantation in South Carolina
where he grew up hunting and fishing. He is now America's largest landowner
with more than 2 million acres of property.
"Sitting down with these two leaders and great America landowners and
hearing them discuss their properties and the various alternative energy
possibilities and ways to make American less dependent on foreign oil was a
real eye opener," says O'Keefe. "As we reveal in the magazine's cover story,
Boone's primary motivation in The Pickens Plan is to get rid of our addiction
to foreign oil. Turner immediately seized and recognized the fact that this
will be done through wind, solar and natural gas, ways far cleaner than the
present fossil fuel that we are using."
"Pickens believes in changing the landscape of the great American Plains
through the use of wind power while Ted Turner is intrigued by the use of
solar energy on his 500,000 acre properties in New Mexico and wind power on
his properties in Nebraska, the Dakotas and Kansas."
Featured in the Wall Street Journal and Investor's Business Daily, The
Land Report is now the premiere source of information on land issues. The
continuing goal is to inform, educate, and update existing landowners, while
at the same time encouraging and inspiring prospective landowners as well.
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