From: James Kotcon <jkotcon@wvu.edu>
To: kevin fooce <fmoose39@hotmail.com>; ec@osenergy.org; Jim Kotcon <jkotcon@wvu.edu>; Jim Sconyers <jim_scon@yahoo.com>; wvec-board@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, October 19, 2010 1:42:14 PM
Subject: RE: [EC] Fwd: How VA is Losing the Competition for Clean Energy Jobs : Virginia Chapter Sierra Club
Examples of project sin other states might suffice, but I think there needs to be a section comparing policy approaches.
While Ohio mandates energy efficiency, West Virginia is building PATH and TrAIL.
While OHIO gives incentives for renewables, West Virginia subsidizes coal. etc.
While employment in solar energy companies nationwide grew by 26 % in 2009, West Virginia pins its hopes on mechanized coal production which employs ever-decreasing numbers of miners.
While other states mandate Green Buildings, West Virginia revoked energy efficiency requirements in state building codes.
While trying to hold onto the rapidly disappearing jobs of the last century, we are rapidly positioning ourselves out of the jobs for the 21st Century.
JBK
>>> kevin fooce <
fmoose39@hotmail.com> 10/19/2010 1:24 PM
>>>
I can put a list of projects, organizations, and politicians that are pushing this agenda. Might need someone to for a good write-up though. Can ask my wife, she is a excellent writer. Would take sometime though.
I believe this is a good idea that needs published on a wide format so everyone in our state can see the problems we have on clean energy and energy efficiency.
The big question is how far do we want to go? Do we want the schools listed? Some of the schools such as OU have positive aspects along with the fact they are now creating a composting facility for the whole city, to Oberlin being one of the top schools in the country for sustainability. Or maybe even list the LEED platinum facility that Hocking tech now host along with being a leader worldwide on fuel cell technologies and other programs they offer. Or would we want to look just at the solar sector and the fact that Ohio now host a 12 megawatt farm
with another solar farm to come which will be one of the largest in the nation. Ohio also plays host to First Solar located in Toledo now employing 1500 people and sales about 80% of it's products to China. Or maybe we want to look at the Burger plant that burns a mixture of biomass and coal and will soon be all biomass. Or maybe the fact that Ohio has programs for the farmers to turn the manure into electricity, fertilizer, and Jiffy peat pots. The list is large, what do we want to focus on?
Kevin Fooce
fooce@hotmail.com 304-751-1448 work
304-675-6687 home
304-593-2875 cell
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:50:15 -0700
From:
jim_scon@yahoo.com To:
jkotcon@wvu.edu;
ec@osenergy.org;
wvec-board@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [EC] Fwd: How VA is Losing the Competition for Clean Energy Jobs : Virginia Chapter Sierra Club
I'd love to see us put together a message that highlights all the clean energy projects and jobs in, say Ohio, and asking why not us?
Jim Sconyers
jim_scon@yahoo.com 304.698.9628 Remember: Mother Nature bats last.
From: James Kotcon <
jkotcon@wvu.edu>
To:
ec@osenergy.org;
wvec-board@yahoogroups.com Sent: Mon, October 18, 2010 1:27:31 PM
Subject: [EC] Fwd: How VA is Losing the Competition for Clean Energy Jobs : Virginia Chapter Sierra Club
Here is a fascinating approach to attracting attention to Green Energy. Why not West Virginia too?
JBK
>>> Paula Carrell <
Paula.Carrell@sierraclub.org> 10/18/2010 1:09 PM >>>
You all might want to take a look at how the VA Chapter is garnering
attention for their take on (unrealized) clean energy opportunities in
Virginia.
http://vasierraclub.org/2010/10/power-failure-how-virginia-is-losing-the-competition-for-clean-energy-jobs/ _______________________________________________
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