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Chesapeake's Strange Plan To Make 'Green' Gasoline

Forbes -- In announcing his intention to shake things up at Chesapeake Energy, Carl Icahn said in his letter to the board on Friday that he was disappointed the company had not followed through on a debt-reduction plan that Icahn had extracted from Chief Executive Aubrey McClendon a year and a half ago. Icahn wrote that “the promises made in 2010 proved hollow, and the company quickly abandoned their new strategy and not only accelerated land acquisitions but also capital spending on non-core assets.”

Let’s look at an especially puzzling example of this “non-core” spending: McClendon’s formation last year of Chesapeake NG Ventures, a venture capital fund into which he pledged to invest as much as $1 billion in shareholder capital for innovative strategies to increase the use of natural gas. Nevermi

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Submitted May 28, 2012 By: mastermariner

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DrCashFlow Champion Author Massachusetts Posts:7,064 Points:1,626,250 Joined:Jun 2008	Message Posted: May 28, 2012 10:38:02 PM Ignore DrCashFlow Report Abuse McClendon and Loans a toxic combination
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