Green Energy Firms Under Scrutiny Get ‘We Can’t Wait’ Projects
The Obama administration shifted its alternative-energy goals into high gear today as seven renewable energy projects got the “We Can’t Wait” initiative designation.
“As part of President Obama’s all-of-the-above strategy to expand domestic energy production and strengthen the economy, we are working to advance smart development of renewable energy on our public lands,” said Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. “These seven proposed solar and wind projects have great potential to grow our nation’s energy independence, drive job creation, and power economies across the west.”
And some of the companies managing those projects are already under congressional scrutiny on suspicion that they’ve received favorable treatment by this administration.
The White House touted the “job-creating infrastructure projects” as an endeavor that would provide power to 1.5 million homes “and support the president’s all-of-the-above strategy to expand American made energy.”
The projects are buoyed by an executive order in March that directed the Office of Management and Budget to fast-track the permitting and review process for select infrastructure projects. “Additional expedited infrastructure projects will be announced in the coming weeks,” the White House said.
The renewable energy projects come as the Interior Department has been increasingly limiting fossil fuel-exploration on federal lands.
“There is a tale of two energy policies to be told in this country. There are the states where domestic oil and natural gas production is growing, and there are the states where it is stagnating,” House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) said at an Energy and Power subcommittee hearing last week. “In some states, oil and natural gas output is sharply increasing on private and state-owned lands. But in others where this administration calls the shots on federally controlled lands and offshore areas, the news is not nearly as good.”
Upton cited a recent Congressional Research Service study that found 96 percent of the increase in domestic oil supplies since 2007 has come from non-federal lands.
“If we take the lessons from this tale of two energy policies and allow states like Alaska to harness the resources as they do in states like North Dakota, it would benefit the national economy, jobs, gasoline price, and energy security,” the chairman said.
“While Democrats under President Obama’s leadership have put forth truly all-of-the-above energy agenda, it appears that my Republican colleagues are once again taking their cue from one of their most influential leaders, Sarah Palin, in reviving their simplistic ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ energy agenda,” ranking member Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) said.
Are these projects shovel ready?
Take a look at my blog post the other day – ‘Barack Hussein Obama’s Deconstruction Plans… Green-Wise Via The Economy…Disarming The Citizens Via Gun Control…’- http://www.adinakutnicki.com
Truth IS stranger than fiction.
The “we can’t wait” designation comes in light of the fact that the pResident is desperate for the 50% of this loan money that will be automatically shuffled into his re-election campaign coffers.
Yo, right on, can’t wait to get his hands on the money. Despicable street corner hustler, nothing more, sure as hell isn’t my president.
Holy Wind and Holy Sun startups do three important things, from the POV of this administration;
1. They give Ken Salazar an excuse to sequester vast tracts of public land for their exclusive use, thereby preventing them from being used for oil or gas exploration, mineral exploration, or even public recreation. (Other than tofu-eaters on foot.)
2. They guarantee large amounts of taxpayers’ money going into The One’s re-election coffers, after careful “laundering”. Not to mention the golden nest eggs of His minions, who I suspect are at least smart enough to already have their resumes’ updated.
And oh yes;
3. They help immensely with this crowd’s
UtopianCacotopian dream of taking us back to the Stone Age. “Starve the Beast” is no longer just a deep-eco slogan; it’s now official policy.“All of the Above”? More like “BANANA” (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anybody), with a side order of “FITDYWMB” (Freeze In The Dark, You Western Materialist B******ds).
Never mind November. We need jail time for this lot.
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Wait a minute, where’s the environmental-impact studies on these projects? Countdown to the Sierra Club shutting them down in 3..2..1…
(crickets)
“We Can’t Wait” on these programs, because the companies might be bankrupt by next week. (Surprisingly, many bankruptcy judges take a dim view of money laundering.)
I am sick to death of hearing about the “all of the above” strategy from both the left and the right. What we need is an “all of the above but ONLY if it is cost competitive with conventional energy sources w/o gubmint subsidies or radical regulations on the competition” strategy.
The current Administration clown posse is not competent to run a gubmint. They certainly are not qualified to pick winners and losers in the energy game.
Obama’s tail wags dog.
They definitely did not build these business, the goverment did.
This is business by his definition.
SP’s Chambers: I Stand by My 2011 Decision to Downgrade US Wednesday, 08 Aug 2012 By Forrest Jones
http://www.moneynews.com/StreetTalk/S-P-Downgrade-US-rating/2012/08/08/id/447943?s=al&promo_code=FB25-1
Somebody should tell that person in the White House about Spain or Germany. All these renewables just lead to reduced competitiveness. Every Green job costs 2-4 real jobs (as a result of the inflationary and recession causing increase in electricity prices. All the wind “farms” in the US are NOT capable to power a single ER of a single hospital (unless one has emergencies ONLY when it blows or shines). ALL the 25,000 wind megawatts in Germany have NOT replaced a single, lousy coal plant. Wind power does not reduce CO2 emmissions (instead it relies on single cycle gas plants which are much less efficient than dual cycle plants). Wind power has been around since the mid 70′s and has never managed to stand on its own feet. True, nukes are subsidized but nukes produce power 365/24 for 40 or 50 years. Wind “farms” produce random power, with an availability or capacity factor of about 25%. 1,600,000 or 16,000,000 wind megawatts CANNOT replace a 1,600 MW coal or nuclear plant. Are the engineers on strike in the US or have they all gone gaga?
Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the lead investigator of the MCSO Cold Case Posse, Mike Zullo, presented their preliminary findings today (March 31, 2012) regarding their investigation into the “probable” forgery of Barack Obama’s online birth certificate and selective service forms. This presentation was open to the public, and around one thousand attendees showed up, although mainstream media were absent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uICO4l5PRcs&feature=player_embedded
We are moving into unprecedented times, and it is definitely time to be preparing because dark storm clouds are on the horizon….
http://thetruthwins.com/archives/17-signs-that-you-better-start-preparing-for-a-nightmarish-global-food-crisis