Submitted by kpaul.mallasch on Thu, 07/31/2008 - 4:54pm.
Area: StatePeople: Jill Long ThompsonTopics: Environment, PoliticsTypes: Opinion
Area: StatePeople: Jill Long ThompsonTopics: Environment, PoliticsTypes: Opinion
Letter: New Jobs with Clean Energy
By Jill Long Thompson
Last month, Indiana lost 17,900 jobs. Our unemployment rate jumped more than any other state in the country.
Those are daunting statistics -- but while our current leadership might accept them, we don't have to.
Yesterday, Dennie Oxley and I announced our new Green Jobs Initiative. Our plan centers on using the skills Hoosiers already have and creating 30,000 new, good paying green jobs across the state.
Visit my website to learn more about the plan -- and to provide your own feedback:
http://www.hoosiersforjill.
We can make clean technology options a priority in Indiana.
Research shows in our manufacturing sector alone, Indiana has the potential to create as many as 25,180 new jobs from wind turbine manufacturing. We can also create an additional 7,485 new jobs in solar component manufacturing, with even more jobs to be created in geothermal and biomass manufacturing fields.
These jobs use skills many Hoosiers already have. They run the gamut from electricians to welders, carpenters to engineers, mechanics, equipment operators, roofers, iron and steel workers, millwrights and truckers.
Combined with tax rebates for eligible companies that create green jobs, and a clean energy fund to invest in this emerging industry, we can achieve our energy, environmental and economic goals.
Click here to learn more -- and to tell us what you think:
http://www.hoosiersforjill.
Indiana has the potential to be a national leader in clean energy and simultaneously build its economy. Dennie and I plan to work hard everyday to make this a reality for all Hoosiers.
Sincerely,
Jill Long Thompson
PS. You can read the comprehensive Green Jobs Initiative here:
http://www.hoosiersforjill.
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I think the article points out the skills and talents of the people of the state are there, if there were anyone interested in developing the capacities to utilize them.
Capital is lacking to make the development happen, as is the interest in allowing it to flourish to replace existing capacity in the existing sector for such energy. And then there is the nature of disruptive technology that as one technology raises another diminishes or ceases to exist.
Problem is that the folks who have the cash flow and have the credit or capital investments are not all that interested in philanthropic endeavors’, unless there is a fat return on investment. And with Wind turbine and Solar, there is not a lot of work left after the initial construction; so it turns into a short term fix for employment, but a long terms benefit with steady returns.
I think any Would be Governors need to focus on things that can employ more, more often, and still keep their eyes on the savings and lowering of costs to the consumers and residents to do business of a different type. Many more self employed individual may develop in the service sector as a result of the Graying of Indiana. But it too has it’s associated disadvantages with a decreasing birth rate.
Randall L. Jacobsen Sr.
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