September 17, 2011 – 12:09 pm
The question is, did they get it? Failed solar panel maker Solyndra’s Securities and Exchange Commission filings show that seven months after the Obama administration’s Department of Energy approved a $535 million federal loan guarantee, Solyndra applied for a second one valued at $469 million. “On September 11, 2009, we applied for a second loan […]
September 8, 2011 – 3:46 pm
Damn, I guess this was breaking news from earlier, as the FBI has raided Solyndra FBI agents served search warrants this morning at Solyndra, the Fremont solar company that abruptly closed last week, two years after receiving more than $500 million in federal stimulus money, an agency official said. The search is part of a […]
September 6, 2011 – 4:50 pm
Must suck when your house of cards falls With the economy stagnating and unemployment high, where are the jobs of the future going to come from? A few years ago, it seemed as though the Green Economy could be a big part of the answer. Only to confirmed leftists. New clean-energy sources could address environmental, […]
September 6, 2011 – 11:15 am
Here we go again, another enviro group which loves “green” energy, but doesn’t want it where they can see it (via Master Resource) Editor’s note: This op-ed is by Annette Smith, executive director of Vermonters for a Clean Environment. It is not too late for Vermont to stop and take a serious look at wind […]
September 5, 2011 – 9:18 am
As we approach the time of Obama’s wishy washy jobs whine, we can surely assume that it will include lots of bloviating for more green jobs. And yet another study shows that the government push for these kills real jobs The UK’s headlong rush into renewable energy –one ignored by the rest of the world […]
September 1, 2011 – 1:41 pm
Yesterday, we learned that solar panel maker Solyndra, recipient of $535 million in Department of Energy loans via the Stimulus act, was closing shop, laying off 1,100 workers, and filing for Chapter 11 (there are also rumors that they are going to send part of their business to China, but, I can’t find confirmation on […]
August 15, 2011 – 1:44 pm
The Liberal Law Of Unintended Consequences at work (though, with liberals, I’m not sure that the word “work” should really be associated with the) Energy-saving light bulbs leap in price First the European Union banned the sale of traditional 100-watt light bulbs in favour of “energy-saving” alternatives. Frosted-style bulbs, too, disappeared from British shop shelves […]
August 3, 2011 – 5:11 pm
Well, OK, I guess, because during a cool period, fauna has a much tougher time growing. But, hey, everyone (else) needs to pay a carbon tax to stop this dire, dire threat! SUMMIT COUNTY — The warmer and drier conditions predicted across the West by most climate change models will help invasive grasses replace native […]
July 17, 2011 – 4:02 pm
From the UK Telegraph by Andrew Gilligan, a peak at the future of Britain In the film Billy Elliot, a boy strives to be a dancer against the backdrop of the miners’ strike. Now, the place where they filmed it is the focus of another defining industrial struggle, with hundreds of thousands of jobs at […]
July 16, 2011 – 8:30 am
Funny how this news was lost in the shuffle Friday, and I had to go to a British newspaper to find out Republicans claimed to have struck a blow for freedom on Friday when the House of Representatives voted to strip all funding from government programmes promoting energy-saving lightbulbs. The measure, brought as an amendment […]
