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Wednesday, 16 September 2015

Green nightmares

When the government mandates green dreams of energy efficiency, nightmares oftentimes follow. The latest wake-up call comes from California.


The Golden State’s Clean Energy Jobs Act increased taxes on corporations to fund energy-saving initiatives and green programs, primarily at schools. The initiative was supposed to generate more than $550 million annually and create 11,000 new green jobs, notes Nicolas Loris of The Heritage Foundation.


Three years later, more than half of the $297 million doled out to schools has been sucked up by consultants and energy auditors. A board created to oversee California’s initiative and provide annual progress reports has never met, The Associated Press reports. So, of course, fumbling politicians who foisted this farce on Californians are calling for better oversight.


It’s the very same unrealized vision that squandered billions of dollars on green initiatives in the 2009 federal stimulus bill. A 2012 report by the Labor Department’s inspector general found that only 11,613 people retained so-called green jobs for more than six months (about 16 percent of the goal) in what Mr. Loris calls “a classic boondoggle.”


Now, under the Clean Power Plan, the Environmental Protection Agency has set targets for states to cut overall power plant emissions to 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. But at what cost?


Unless states intend to follow California’s abysmal example, they must reject the feds’ latest green scheme.



Green nightmares

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