That's a 'Renewable Energy' Job? If You Say So

The statewide news site MLive recently published a column by the owner of a solar panel installation company claiming the state’s renewable energy sector has produced an estimated 82,600 jobs.
Dean Berden, owner of DB Solar in Snover, wrote: “In recent years, Michigan's renewable sector has already seen tremendous growth, with more than an estimated 82,600 jobs in renewable power industries, energy efficiency and other conservation services.” The column links to a report called, “Powering Up Michigan," and attributes the 82,600 jobs number to a 2010 Bureau of Labor and Statistics report.


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Green dreams of jobs bonanza dashed in California

Want a definition of a green boondoggle? This incredible report by the Associated Press tracking the three year program to tax corporations and give the money to schools for green energy projects - a ballot measure that promosed tens of thousands of new jobs - shows the total, abject failure of another green energy project.
Three years after California voters passed a ballot measure to raise taxes on corporations and generate clean energy jobs by funding energy-efficiency projects in schools, barely one-tenth of the promised jobs have been created, and the state has no comprehensive list to show how much work has been done or how much energy has been saved.


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Germany’s Green Jobs Miracle Collapses

Renewable energy was supposed to create tens of thousands of green jobs. Yet despite three-digit Euro billions of subsidies, the number of jobs is falling rapidly. Seven out of ten jobs will only remain as long as the subsidies keep flowing.—Daniel Wetzel, Die Welt, 26 May 2014

“A few years ago the renewable sector was the job miracle in Germany, now nothing is left of all of that,” said the deputy leader of the Greens in the Bundestag, Oliver Krischer.—Daniel Wetzel, Die Welt, 26 May 2014

The same green subsidies have led to rising costs and job losses in many other areas, such as heavy industry and commerce as well as conventional power plants.

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The hope-a-nomics disaster: One company’s horror story

President Obama promises to move the country forward with his recycled pledge of five million green jobs. But in the real world, small businesses are struggling to stay afloat as they deal with the fiscal wreckage of this administration’s disastrous venture socialism. Here’s the tale of just one Colorado company victimized by the Obama Department of Energy (DOE).

Colorado Distribution Group is a privately held storage and shipping company based in Denver. Thanks to hope-a-nomics, its warehouse is saddled with nearly 7,000 pallets of federally subsidized solar panels (one-third of which are completely spoiled and unsalable), along with related detritus such as broken glass and stray module parts.

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Quarter-billion-dollar stimulus grant creates just 400 jobs

Battery maker A123 Systems vowed thousands of new jobs when it received a nearly quarter-billion-dollar stimulus grant in late 2009, but federal job-tracking figures show only a few hundred positions were created before the company joined a growing list of federally backed energy businesses that ended in bankruptcy.

The latest quarterly report on file with a federal stimulus tracking database shows just seven positions created through the grant from April to June this year. Previous quarters’ job reports contained anywhere from a handful of positions created to more than 100 new jobs.

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White House Refuses to Turn Over Internal Solyndra Documents

10/17/2011 - As investigation reveals those closest to President Obama were warned about the Solyndra loan, White House violates own transparency pledge

WASHINGTON, DC – Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) responded to the recent letter from White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler that the White House would not provide internal White House communications related to Solyndra. On October 5, 2011, the committee leaders requested the internal communications after recently produced documents revealed the President’s closest confidantes monitored the Solyndra loan. Read more at House Energy & Commerce Committee...

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Mark Steyn: Obama’s magical thinking on green jobs

Pass this bill now, or I’ll say “Pass this bill now!” another two dozen times! With this latest inspiration, Obama has taken the post-modern phase of democratic politics to a whole new level. “Pass this jobs bill”? Simply as a matter of humdrum reality, there is no bill, it won’t “create” any jobs, and it will be paid for with money we don’t have. But the smartest president in history has calculated that, if he says the same four monosyllables over and over, a nonexistent bill to create nonexistent jobs with nonexistent money will be yet another legislative triumph in the grand tradition of his first stimulus (the original Dumb And Dumber to the sequel’s Stimulus And Stimulusser). Read more at the Orange County Register...

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Hoekstra: Prisoners taking work from private sector

HOEKSTRA.HOUSE.GOV, 12/8/2009 by U.S. Reps. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) and Dave Camp (R-MI) - "The insanity continues: 'green jobs' are turning into 'orange jumpsuit' jobs." ∴ The president recently held a "Jobs Summit" at the White House. Topping the agenda was the creation of "green jobs." With the unemployment rate in Michigan hovering above 15 percent and the nation at 10 percent, a great deal of hope is being thrust upon the renewable energy industry and the promise of "green jobs." ∴ It appears, however, the administration is content with having those jobs performed by prisoners as opposed to law-abiding citizens. Read more at Congressman Hoekstra's website... Read More......

Van Jones resigns

9/5/2009 - REUTERS and BREITBART report that Van Jones, Pres. Obama's 'green jobs' czar, resigned late Saturday evening. But in an Accuracy in Media (AIM) article, Van Jones Scandal Threatens Obama Presidency, published before Jones' resignation, Cliff Kinkaid wrote, "Curiously, it's not Jones' communist background which has proven to be the most controversial. Rather, it's his two apologies in a week for statements calling Republicans 'assholes' and having signed a 9/11 truth statement blaming the terrorist attacks on U.S. officials. ∴ It's the communism, stupid." Read more at AIM... Read More......