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Reid, Titus, Horsford: Green energy means more Nevada jobs
Jinae West
From left, U.S. Rep. Dina Titus (D-Nev.), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), and State Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford (D-Las Vegas) offer remarks Tuesday during a panel discussion on energy at Springs Preserve.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 | 3:23 p.m.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) makes the rounds at an energy conservation fair following the Blue Ribbon Panel Tuesday at Springs Preserve.
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Nevada elected officials and local business leaders met today with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to discuss the Silver State’s future as a green state and to brainstorm ways to create more jobs through energy efficiency during a meeting of Reid’s Blue Ribbon Panel on Energy at the Las Vegas Springs Preserve.
In his opening remarks, Reid talked about the landmark climate bill that last week passed the U.S. House by a slim margin. If passed by the Senate, the bill would curb greenhouse gases and reduce dependence on foreign oil. It would also cut carbon emissions by 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020 and more than 80 percent by 2050.
Members of the Blue Ribbon Panel consist of Nevada business, government, academic, labor and scientific leaders.
U.S. Rep. Dina Titus, (D-Nev.), said the bill would help Nevada become a leader in renewable energy and create more jobs.
"And these are jobs that can't be shipped overseas because this is where the sun is, the wind, the geothermal, the biomass," Titus said. "This is where those jobs will be."
Titus cited the National Wildlife Federation in saying that Nevada has the potential to generate more than 52 percent of its electricity from wind and 46 percent from geothermal.
"We can definitely be a leader in the production market," she said.
State Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford (D-Las Vegas) spoke about state legislation -- like Senate Bill 358 -- and the opportunities the state's solar, wind and geothermal resources could bring to build a new energy economy.
"We can no longer base our economy on tourism and good times to pay for our education and other essential state services," he said. "It is time to begin charting a new direction for the state that is tied to, in large part, this new green economy."
"All of this means jobs," he added later.
Ron Wenker, state director of the Bureau of Land Management, gave an overview of Nevada's use of alternative energy. He said the state has 61 applications for solar development, primarily in the southern part of the state, and 32 of those applications are considered active. He said if all 32 go through to production, it would mean almost 12,000 megawatts of electricity produced.
In Northern Nevada, Wenker said there are 370 geothermal leases authorized on about 450,000 acres. He said there are currently 10 geothermal plants that are able to produce 300 megawatts of electricity.
Among the other speakers at the panel were Democratic state Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley; Michael Yackira, president and CEO of NV Energy; Cindy Ortega, senior vice president of energy and environmental services at MGM Mirage; and Eric Dominguez, director of energy and environmental services at Harrah's Entertainment.
Both Ortega and Dominguez spoke about their companies’ commitment to saving energy. Ortega said MGM Mirage uses energy-efficient lighting and has invested in projects to reduce waste.
Dominguez said Harrah's has improved energy efficiency in its 36 nationwide resorts.
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More green jobs for Nevada, right after we all pay for higher energy bills on everything. Make a headline of a good thing while stealing from everyone in the shadows of bills 1000 pages long with special fees on every page. We have had enough HELP from the government, we cannot afford any more.
So great to see that Nevada will be at the forefront of this issue.
America will be leading the world once again in an industry. We have a chance to use all of our skill and ingenuity to create innovative solutions that can be exported all around the world.
The technology we develop here will restart the economy and protect the environment.
ok, here's hoping that green energy moves forward - I think it must if we are to survive as a society. We have to stop sucking much of our oil from abroad and watching our money go flying across to the other parts of the world. Our failure to come to terms with this stuff will eventually cause the failure of our economy.
rev-
Yep. I wrote something on this yesterday.
http://mysilverstate.com/diary/920/why-w...
Our current energy plan is unsustainable. We only have so much oil left, and all that dirty coal is killing us. We not only need to switch over to renewables ASAP, but we also need to use that energy more wisely. The climate crisis is already here, and we can't afford for it to worsen much more.
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I hope so. America needs to wake up and join the 21st century, and Nevada is perfectly poised to lead the "clean energy revolution".
Everyone should see the movie (link below)
http://www.youtube.com/homeproject
Las Vegas is featured.
There is a lot of good that can be done in Nevada, but first there is a lot of things that need to be done to clean up the mess Nevada elected officials have created already.
Follow me and help sort out solutions
https://twitter.com/endrunlv
http://endrunlv.blogspot.com/
Jobs, at how much per job? $700k and more or less...i wonder how many americans will be homeless before you kool-aid drinkers will get the picture?
Jobs, will Harry make sure that all these jobs go to american citizens? Will he start protecting american jobs for the american citizens? When will Harry start doing his job, to protect the american citizen?
Oh, Harry, hows senate bill S729,The Dream Act '09, to allow millions of illegal aliens' children who were brought into our country by their parents, a pathway to citizenship. These people can be 30 yrs old today and we have no record of how old they were when they entered our country illegally. Once they become citizens they can legally bring in any relative of theirs with a greencard through family member. Millions more to enter our country, like we really need this. Harry, how will this bill help all of the unemployed we have in our state? How will this bill help all the unemployed we have in our country?
Harry, when will you start protecting the american lives who put you into office?
Remember you have an election coming up. Start making american citizens your priority.
Did you know that the Energy bill just passed by the House says that when you sell your house, environmental experts have to come in and do a survey to find out if you've got leaky windows, if all the environmental systems are correct, if you have relatively new appliances, and until you modernize in the way they say, you can't sell -- that's in the bill? Unbelieveable! Let's hope the Senate has more sense.
You cannot make the claim that you are creating more jobs without comparing what could have been created if the government a) spent the money on something else or b) allowed taxpayers to spend THEIR OWN money.
If you do not make that comparison you ARE assuming that you either A) spend the money on the project or B) light the money on fire
It could very well be the case that the money would provide MORE and BETTER jobs if spent elsewhere. One thing is for sure, if taxpayers had spent the money how we see fit, we would get the things we NEED and the local economy would grow around OUR NEEDS and not the politicians and their well connected friends.
the state spent $45 million dollars for green energy. That money produced 89 jobs. doing the math says that the state's spent $505,617.98 for those 89 jobs. This is not a great return for the money that was spent.
So I say again, "At what cost to the taxpayer is this going to bring a large number of jobs?"
There is also a whistle-blower in the EPA that claims there are many memos and research available to dispute and prove the issue of global warming does not exist. It is an agenda of politicians and people that want to make a fortune to line their pockets.
This allegation should be investigated and the global warming issue should be debated publicly. the information should not be hand-picked for the benefit of the global warming believers. all the information should be made available...
The reason congress and the senate does not want to make the information public or even allow it to be publicized is the fact that they do not want to embarrass al gore and show him as the greedy idiot he is!!
Here is a great video by Dr. John Christy from the University of Alabama Huntsville (he's giving a lecture at Auburn University)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WWpH0lmc...
Basically he says
1) Climate changes, it gets warm it gets cold
2) We don't know enough about the climate to accurately model it
3) Climate models are often wrong, because the world is too complex (at this time) for us to accurately predict what is going on
4) Most warming seems to be occurring in and around human developments, not because of C02.
5) Some "fixes" for C02 problems don't even reduce the future CO2 problems as Christy demonstrates by using his oppositions own climate models - meaning we'll waste a whole bunch of money for little to no results.
The Searchlight wind farm proposal would create some construction jobs (hopefully they would hire American workers and not people from Central America like other renewable developers in Nevada have), but would only create 15 full time jobs, most of which will not go to local people.
The ugly view of the turbines will destroy the far more stable tourism industry and there are no plans by the company to compenstae lost business revenue to the people of the town.
Duke Energy, the company that wants to build the turbines, is mostly a coal producing company. The Searchlight wind farm will give them a tax break and the energy bill (that they helped write!) will require the tax payer to fund the US Government to give Duke grants to off set their carbon emissions. In other words, the new energy bill is just a front to allow them to keep polluting! The wind farm is just a tax break for them. By constructing this wind farm, they get grants and the new energy bill makes it cheaper for them to produce coal emissions. That's because you and I will be covering their cap and trade requirements. Ask Reid about that on election day!
'4) Most warming seems to be occurring in and around human developments, not because of C02.'
http://www.youtube.com/homeproject
Watch this movie...it says and shows a lot more than what anybody says.
Everyone should see this for a perspective on where the world is in relationship to humanity.
We are running out of time.
Come follow me on Twitter https://twitter.com/endrunlv
There are many many people world wide who are involved in these issues.
When someone who wants to spend trillions of dollars, drastically increase the cost of living, make human life more difficult, and fundamentally alter the way we live and operate in the global marketplace asks you to hurry, you've gota stop and think.
The solar project south of Boulder City was built with El Salvador labor. They manipulated the labor/immigration laws. If they try this again the job will be shut down and boycotted.
The oceans are about to stop their regular movement hot and cold streams.
That will cause these large storms to generate that will dump tons on snow on the northern hemisphere and put it into a deep freeze.
Everybody above Texas will die.
It is 100% proven science. There is even a documentary on it which means it is true.
Also, the man that made a $100 million selling this theory says it true too.
Hurry up before we all die.
But I think we need to focus more on dihydrogen monoxide then the mother of all snow storms.
Dihydrogen monoxide has already killed millions and will kill millions.
Some people that get addicted to dihydrogen monoxide will die if they try to stop taking dihydrogen monoxide.
We must rid the planet of dihydrogen monoxide then we can attack the mother of all snow storms.
Forget the green jobs that is a misnomer.
I want to know why Obama hasn't cracked down on plastic water bottles.
I guess he only cares about waste that is pointless and PC.
whodathunk
All this "green energy" means renewable energy, right? So Nevada Energy doesn't have to buy up lots of Natural Gas or Coal or such to run the power plants and generators, right?
So why haven't our bills gone down?
Ohh, so we can keep paying the shareholders. Right....
I hope Americans don't forget how disgraceful & treasonous the left wing dems were to our men in uniform.Remember "This war is lost,the surge is not working,give it up"Harrie Reed"or what about john fraud kerry's and murtha's comments about how, "all our soldiers are breaking in in the middle of the night, raping and murdering men women and children"!!!And these are just some off them. Man,if our fore fathers were around,they might be HUNG from the highest tree, for aiding and abetting the enemy in time of war. Happy 4th everyone,(But not for the Marxist)
We have more oil then you can imagine,only if the left wing loon tree huggers like Mr "the planets got a temperature" AL bore,and harry reed would allow off shore drilling,we need wind power, and all of the above.But the only answers the liberal dems have, is to spend America into bankruptcies!!Global warming is one of the biggest left wing farce con jobs going!! Most of them pushing it stand to make HUGE MONEY in their so called green investments! please wake up America. We need to be energy independent and get out from under foreign oil,(our national security depends on it)and stop bowing to saudi princes!!!God help us !