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In the meantime we have Southern California Edison and Nevada Energy opposing tax breaks for the roof top solar industry. Mr. Obama is failing on his environmental promises.
Energy chief launches $305 million plan on energy frontier
By KEITH ROGERS
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
Ken Salazar
Interior Department secretary
Photo by Marlene Karas/Review-Journal
With Red Rock Canyon as a backdrop, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Saturday announces a plan that will provide $26.4 million in stimulus funds this year for more than 40 Nevada projects.
Photo by Marlene Karas/Review-Journal
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar launched a plan Saturday to spend $305 million for creating jobs on what he called the public lands' "renewable energy frontier" to reduce the nation's dependence on foreign oil while at the same time restoring landscapes and wildlife habitat.
Standing in a sun-drenched parking lot at Red Rock Canyon's fire station with a solar panel behind him, Salazar said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid "really believes that Nevada is going to be at the point of the spear in terms of moving this country forward with a whole new renewable energy agenda."
"That work we will do here on solar and geothermal and wind energy is going to be exemplary for the rest of the nation as we take the moonshot on the new energy frontier and tackle the realities of climate change," Salazar said.
The Interior Department will manage $3 billion in investments under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act signed by President Barack Obama. The president's goal is to invest $150 billion over the next decade to speed up renewable energy development.
Bureau of Land Management stimulus funding in Nevada this year will provide $26.4 million for more than 40 projects, including renewable energy, habitat restoration, and building and restoring roads, bridges and trails.
Salazar said the monies are "going to create jobs to get our economy out of the ditch. And second of all, we're going to invest in projects that are going to bring out long-term sustainability to these assets of America and to the initiatives we have."
The Obama administration aims to have 10 percent of the nation's electricity generated from renewable resources by 2012 and 25 percent by 2025.
In all, $41 million authorized under the stimulus act will be spent on 65 BLM projects to spur large-scale production of solar, wind and geothermal energy, in addition to siting transmission lines on public lands to support renewable energy development.
After his announcement to a gathering of BLM employees, conservationists, some local officials and members of the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe, Salazar said he met early Saturday with representatives from more than a dozen solar companies.
He said they have financing for many projects in Nevada, Arizona, California, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado, "and they want to get moving on those projects" but the BLM has a backlog for processing applications.
There are 241 applications for wind projects and 199 for solar projects that are in various stages of processing.
Salazar said the BLM plans to open special offices in Nevada and other Western states to accelerate processing renewable energy permit applications.
Groundbreaking on some of those projects will occur next year, he said.
"So we are putting the pedal to the metal to get it done," he said.
Salazar said BLM stimulus funding will translate to more private sector jobs including those for contractors to install solar panels at BLM facilities, including the fire station for Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area.
"I think there are literally millions of jobs that can be created around the country with respect to renewable energy," he said.
"Overall what we expect from the Department of Interior is somewhere in the neighborhood of 100,000 jobs around the country with the total investment we're making," he said.
As part of the $305 million for BLM recovery investments, 650 projects across the nation will restore landscapes and watersheds, protect wildlife habitat, spur renewable energy development, and clean up abandoned mining sites.
Contact Review-Journal reporter Keith Rogers at krogers@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0308.
www.lvrj.com/news/442562...blogcomments
In the meantime we have Southern California Edison and Nevada Energy opposing tax breaks for the roof top solar industry. Mr. Obama is failing on his environmental promises.
Energy chief launches $305 million plan on energy frontier
By KEITH ROGERS
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
Ken Salazar
Interior Department secretary
Photo by Marlene Karas/Review-Journal
With Red Rock Canyon as a backdrop, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Saturday announces a plan that will provide $26.4 million in stimulus funds this year for more than 40 Nevada projects.
Photo by Marlene Karas/Review-Journal
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar launched a plan Saturday to spend $305 million for creating jobs on what he called the public lands' "renewable energy frontier" to reduce the nation's dependence on foreign oil while at the same time restoring landscapes and wildlife habitat.
Standing in a sun-drenched parking lot at Red Rock Canyon's fire station with a solar panel behind him, Salazar said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid "really believes that Nevada is going to be at the point of the spear in terms of moving this country forward with a whole new renewable energy agenda."
"That work we will do here on solar and geothermal and wind energy is going to be exemplary for the rest of the nation as we take the moonshot on the new energy frontier and tackle the realities of climate change," Salazar said.
The Interior Department will manage $3 billion in investments under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act signed by President Barack Obama. The president's goal is to invest $150 billion over the next decade to speed up renewable energy development.
Bureau of Land Management stimulus funding in Nevada this year will provide $26.4 million for more than 40 projects, including renewable energy, habitat restoration, and building and restoring roads, bridges and trails.
Salazar said the monies are "going to create jobs to get our economy out of the ditch. And second of all, we're going to invest in projects that are going to bring out long-term sustainability to these assets of America and to the initiatives we have."
The Obama administration aims to have 10 percent of the nation's electricity generated from renewable resources by 2012 and 25 percent by 2025.
In all, $41 million authorized under the stimulus act will be spent on 65 BLM projects to spur large-scale production of solar, wind and geothermal energy, in addition to siting transmission lines on public lands to support renewable energy development.
After his announcement to a gathering of BLM employees, conservationists, some local officials and members of the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe, Salazar said he met early Saturday with representatives from more than a dozen solar companies.
He said they have financing for many projects in Nevada, Arizona, California, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado, "and they want to get moving on those projects" but the BLM has a backlog for processing applications.
There are 241 applications for wind projects and 199 for solar projects that are in various stages of processing.
Salazar said the BLM plans to open special offices in Nevada and other Western states to accelerate processing renewable energy permit applications.
Groundbreaking on some of those projects will occur next year, he said.
"So we are putting the pedal to the metal to get it done," he said.
Salazar said BLM stimulus funding will translate to more private sector jobs including those for contractors to install solar panels at BLM facilities, including the fire station for Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area.
"I think there are literally millions of jobs that can be created around the country with respect to renewable energy," he said.
"Overall what we expect from the Department of Interior is somewhere in the neighborhood of 100,000 jobs around the country with the total investment we're making," he said.
As part of the $305 million for BLM recovery investments, 650 projects across the nation will restore landscapes and watersheds, protect wildlife habitat, spur renewable energy development, and clean up abandoned mining sites.
Contact Review-Journal reporter Keith Rogers at krogers@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0308.
www.lvrj.com/news/442562...blogcomments
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Re: Green-washing in the name of saving the planet
Thu, May 14, 2009 - 12:32 PMMeanwhile, Arizona is planning to host the site of the world's largest Solar Thermal power plant in Mohave County, which is just a hop, skip and jump from Clark County, where Red Rock Canyon is located. .
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Re: Green-washing in the name of saving the planet
Mon, May 25, 2009 - 7:57 AMThis isn't really a surprise to you is it?
You see how GE is now high up in the political power hierarchy of America? You notice how so many folks are tossing out their GE appliances? I refuse to buy them. GE wants the top positions in this country, and they can afford to buy them. -
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Re: Green-washing in the name of saving the planet
Tue, May 26, 2009 - 9:54 AMIt's actually kind of amazing just how many pies GE has their fingers into. Of course they keep buying up their competition so I suppose that helps. -
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Tue, May 26, 2009 - 10:30 PMScary isn't it? -
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Re: Green-washing in the name of saving the planet
Thu, June 11, 2009 - 6:57 AMthe above link doesn't work, what are you all upset about? the fact that GE is getting the business? Don't get me wrong, i am usually against large corporations as a general rule, just not sure what the argument is here, govt spending or govt spending in the wrong place? -
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Re: Green-washing in the name of saving the planet
Thu, June 11, 2009 - 10:55 AMGeorge, it's that GE is calling the shots. It's that GE is holding some of those puppet strings attached to Obama and his administration of ex-lobbyists (NO LOBBYISTS IN MY ADMINISTRATION!! Well, except for this one, and maybe this one, oh and of course this one, oh and yeah a few of those over here. Let's just waiver them real quick) It's that all of the American public will have to abide by and live under rules that were created by GE and for GE.
This should bother the hell out of you, man. Seriously. Your tax dollars at work. -
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Re: Green-washing in the name of saving the planet
Fri, June 12, 2009 - 6:52 AMthanks, it does bother me, just been out of the loop for a while. i was happy with the election, but not so happy with is cabinet picks. seems he is just another politician after all. hopefully things will change for the better. -
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Re: Green-washing in the name of saving the planet
Thu, July 16, 2009 - 11:28 AMSo how do you feel about all these unConstitutional Czars he's titling to control all aspects of our lives who answer only to him and not the American public?
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Re: Green-washing
Thu, July 16, 2009 - 10:35 AMen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwash
Greenwash
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Greenwash (a portmanteau of green and whitewash) is a term used to describe the practice of companies disingenuously spinning their products and policies as environmentally friendly, such as by presenting cost cuts as reductions in use of resources.[1] It is a deceptive use of green PR or green marketing. The term green sheen has similarly been used to describe organizations that attempt to show that they are adopting practices beneficial to the environment.[2]
Usage
Greenwashing was coined by NY environmentalist Jay Westerveld[3][4][5] in an essay regarding the hotel industry's practice of placing green placards in each room, promoting reuse of guest-towels, ostensibly to "save the environment". Westerveld noted that, in most cases, little or no effort toward waste recycling was being implemented by these institutions, due in part to the lack of cost-cutting affected by such practice. Westerveld opined that the actual objective of this "green campaign" on the part of many hoteliers was, in fact, increased profit. Westerveld hence monikered this and other outwardly environmentally conscientious acts with a greater, underlying purpose of profit increase as greenwashing.
The term is generally used when significantly more money or time has been spent advertising being green (that is, operating with consideration for the environment), rather than spending resources on environmentally sound practices. This is often portrayed by changing the name or label of a product, to give the feeling of nature, for example putting an image of a forest on a bottle containing harmful chemicals. Environmentalists often use greenwashing to describe the actions of energy companies, which are traditionally the largest polluters.[6]
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Greenwashing
A term merging the concepts of “green” (environmentally sound) and “whitewashing” (to conceal or gloss over wrongdoing). Greenwashing is any form of marketing or public relations that links a corporate, political, religious or nonprofit organization to a positive association with environmental issues for an unsustainable product, service, or practice.
In some cases, an organization may truly offer a “green” product, service or practice. However, through marketing and public relations, one is wrongly led to believe this “green” value system is ubiquitous throughout the entire organization.
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www.greenwashingindex.com/
voting, polling, and reporting site for most authentic and also worst offenders
FTC Charges Three Companies With False Green Claims; Delays New Guides
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America's Ten Worst Greenwashers
by Shireen Deen, Valley Advocate
August 29, 2002
More than a decade ago, on Earth Day 1990, millions of people joined together around the country to protest the rapidly declining health of our planet, forcing corporations to realize that even the average Joe had started to take an interest in the well-being of the environment.
Predictably, the level of "greenwashing" has spiked sharply since that eventful Earth Day. Greenwashing is what corporations do when they try to make themselves look more environmentally friendly than they really are.
Arguably, the greenwashers get away with it more often than not. But their deceptions do not go entirely unnoticed. Every year for the past decade, the watchdog group Earth Day Resources for Living Green has released a report called "Don't Be Fooled." The report calls attention to the year's 10 worst greenwashers, the 10 companies that have made the most misleading claims about the environmental benefits of their products and industries. This year, EcoPledge.com, a coalition of environmental organizations that uses boycotts to put pressure on environment-abusing companies, has joined Earth Day Resources in putting out the report.
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