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ANOTHER White House Energy Link
Topic Started: Mar 7 2010, 10:44 AM (191 Views)
George K
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Gee, remember the outrage over Bush meeting with Energy Company executives in secret at the White House? Remember all the cries of collusion between these companies and the White House to increase profits while milking the public?

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/breaking-anti-lobbyist-obama-administration-recruited-left-wing-lobbyists-to-sell-bogus-green-jobs/
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After two studies refuted President Barack Obama's assertions regarding the success of Spain's and Denmark's wind energy programs, a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request reveals the Department of Energy turned to George Soros and to wind industry lobbyists to attack the studies.

Via the FOIA request, the Competitive Enterprise Institute has learned that the Department of Energy -- specifically the office headed by Al Gore's company's former CEO, Cathy Zoi -- turned to George Soros' Center for American Progress and other wind industry lobbyists to help push Obama's wind energy proposals.

The FOIA request was not entirely complied with, and CEI just filed an appeal over documents still being withheld. In addition to withholding many internal communications, the administration is withholding communications with these lobbyists and other related communications, claiming they constitute "inter-agency memoranda." This implies that, according to the DoE, wind industry lobbyists and Soros's Center for American Progress are -- for legal purposes -- extensions of the government.

This is a defense commonly employed against FOIA requests when seeking to withhold certain communications with, for example, paid consultants.

As candidate and president, on eight separate occasions Barack Obama instructed Americans to "think about what's happening in countries like Spain [and] Germany" if they wanted to know what successful "green jobs" policies look like, and if they wanted to know what we should expect here in the U.S. from his agenda.

Some European economists took a look. In March, a research team from Madrid's King Juan Carlos University produced a detailed, substantive, heavily sourced, two-method paper: "Study of the Effects on Employment of Public Aid to Renewable Energy Sources." The paper concluded that Spain's "green jobs" program was an economic failure, in fact costing Spain many jobs.

Wait.

Green jobs? A failure?

Se. Sensenbrenner is looking into the coverup as well:
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The Honorable Catherine Zoi
Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
U.S. Department of Energy
1000 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20585

Secretary Zoi:

I would appreciate clarification on your January 6, 2010 letter regarding the “National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL) Response to the Report ‘Study of the Effects on the Employment of Public Aid to Renewable Energy Sources’ from King Juan Carlos University (Spain).” Your response did not address the questions I initially posed in my September 24, 2009 letter.

I would like a response to the following questions:

1. How much DOE funding was provided for this specific study?
2. Who requested the study and what was the stated reason to undertake the response?
3. Who initially approved the white paper response and funding?
4. What is NREL’s policy of commissioning reactionary studies? What guidelines does the DOE provide?

Further, a recent Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request has revealed new concerns in relation to the white paper. On November 13, 2009 my staff emailed the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy (EERE) and requested an update on the status of the September 24 letter. At that time your staff responded “I don’t believe that we have seen this letter before.” The FOIA request, however, reveals emails as early as September 29, in which DOE staff discussed my September 24 letter. I am extremely disappointed that DOE EERE took nearly three-and-a-half months to provide an inadequate response to my inquiry. Given the recent FOIA documents, I’m equally concerned that the delay stemmed not from inattention, but from a deliberate attempt to avoid the inquiry. Given the recent FOIA disclosures, please respond to the following:


5. The documents reveal internal debate in which DOE and EERE staff deliberately avoids answering direct questions in relation to the origination of the study. This elusiveness is troubling. A September 2 exchange asked, “how often does [this type of study] happen” and that “this is the first time we’ve been asked to respond so directly [to another study],” with the reply as “That is probably the true answer.” Another DOE employee specifically says “Let’s avoid this type of direct response.” This tactic was intended to mislead to direct inquiries into the study.

a. Can you identify any previous instances in which NREL commissioned a paper intended as a direct rebuttal of a foreign study?

6. DOE and EERE, in conjunction with NREL, appear to have closely coordinated a strategic response to the King Juan Carlos study with outside interest groups, specifically the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), the Center for American Progress (CAP), and others.
a. How often do NREL and EERE coordinate policy strategy with special interest groups? Please provide all documentation of contact with CAP, AWEA, and UCS to the Select Committee.
Please respond to the above questions by March 19, 2010.

Sincerely,

F. JAMES SENSENBRENNER, JR.
Ranking Member
Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming





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jon-nyc
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Funny George, I don't remember you being so outraged about it then. Why the sudden change of heart?
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Luke's Dad
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I think George's point is more about the double standards involved.
The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it.
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George K
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jon-nyc
Mar 7 2010, 10:59 AM
Funny George, I don't remember you being so outraged about it then.
Of course not. Those meetings occurred in 2001. I joined here in 2005. In fact a quick search of "oil secret" here reveals only one post on the subject.
http://s10.zetaboards.com/The_New_Coffee_Room/single/?p=8289786&t=7154345

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Why the sudden change of heart?

No change of heart at all.

So, let me throw the question back at you. Are you outraged by this? Were you outraged when Bush did it?
Edited by George K, Mar 7 2010, 11:16 AM.
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Mar 7 2010, 11:08 AM
I think George's point is more about the double standards involved.
So's mine.
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George K
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jon-nyc
Mar 7 2010, 12:02 PM
Luke's Dad
Mar 7 2010, 11:08 AM
I think George's point is more about the double standards involved.
So's mine.
As I said, the original story broke in 2001. For me to have commented about it back then would have been...impossible.

And by the time the story was finished in late 2005, I had a grand total of about ... 15 posts here.

So, your request for my opinion on something that was off the radar by the time I got here is problematic.
Edited by George K, Mar 7 2010, 12:28 PM.
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In order for there to be a double standard from George, there first needs to be a standard. I've seen no posts from George expressing his approval or disapproval over Bush's meetings, and I've seen no posts from George indicating his feelings over Obama's meetings. The only point I've seen him make is the one concerning the reaction to Bush's meetings, and Obama's. And there is a discrepancy there.
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True, he might have been just as outraged as the editors of Moveon.org At least (as you point out), I can't prove otherwise.
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