Why Not Ohio? Samsung Signs $6.6 Billion Solar and Wind Power Deal with Ontario,

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Why not Ohio? Is it because we have a fossil fuel Governor in the likes of Ted Strickland? A Governor who never met a nuke or coal plant he didn't like?

Blue-green jobs are out there, except their going to Canada, while Ohio gets no jobs and only more and more dirty pollution from Ted Strickland's dirty coal plants.

You must have missed my post from yesterday.

[From Today's Vindicator]
If there's one government initiative that has exceeded expectations, it is Ohio Third Frontier launched by former Republican Gov. Bob Taft and embraced by Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland. Bipartisan public support has been unwavering.

Now, Strickland has called for increasing the amount of money that would be available through Third Frontier to companies starting up in industries such as alternative energy and biomedical research.

The Ohio House and Senate have answered the call.

But, the two chambers have differing versions of the measure that must be adopted Tuesday in order to give Ohio voters a say in the May primary. The House would add $950 million over five years, while the Senate would add $500 million, plus earmark $100 million for highways and other public works projects.

Given the snail's pace with which the state is recovering from the national economic recession, we believe a $950 million commitment is appropriate and timely.

Job creation

The numbers tell the story of the Third Frontier's success: overall economic impact, $6.6 billion; total jobs created, 41,000 — 10,000 direct; tax revenue generated from Third Frontier activities, $107 million. In addition, the program has attracted seven times the amount of follow-on capital invested, and the growth of venture capital activity has been twice the national average in the last five years.

The success in the Mahoning Valley is just as impressive. A couple of examples: Youngstown State University in collaboration with Fireline, Inc., secured $2.1 million for its Center for Advanced Materials Analyses; Refractory Specialties received $400,000 in 2008 under the fuel cell program.

It is clear that the Third Frontier initiative must be expanded to keep Ohio competitive in the global economy.

We urge adoption of the House version, and believe Ohioans will continue to support this important economic development program.

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Why Not Ohio? Samsung Signs $6.6 Billion Solar and Wind Power Deal with Ontario, Canada

a recent Green Options report which states the Ontario will be giving the green light to receive 16,000 jobs thanks to their energy legistlation which is allowing a 6.6 billion dollar wind and solar power deal to fall their way:

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In one of the biggest renewable energy deals in the history of the world, a Korean consortium led by Samsung has agreed to build 2,500 megawatts of wind and solar power capacity in the Canadian province of Ontario.
Samsung C&T and the Ontario government signed the deal on Thursday, January 21st. The agreement will bring thousands of jobs and clean energy for more than half a million homes to Ontario.

Building off of this new deal, Korean trade officials plan to make Ontario their base of operations for all of North American.

Samsung first proposed the deal about a year ago, but Ontario's Green Energy Act is what seems to have actually moved the proposal to a reality — another reason for clean energy activists in the US to look with puppy dog eyes at the rest of the world as they speed ahead with clean energy (and clean energy jobs) and Americans remain tied to the old bone of dirty technology.

As The New York Times reports, "Under the terms of the agreement, officials said, Samsung must build four manufacturing plants in Ontario, promising 16,000 direct and indirect jobs over the next five years. The energy generated will be enough for 580,000 homes."

The first phase of the project is scheduled to be built near an old coal plant that is supposed to be decommissioned by 2014 (near Windsor). Out with the old, in with the new.

Samsungs new manufacturing facilities under this deal (4 manufacturing plants in Ontario) will be producing wind turbine towers, wind blades, solar inverters and solar assembly by 2015.

Now, as Ontario's premier, Dalton McGuinty, says, "This means Ontario is officially the place to be for green energy manufacturing in North America." With generous subsidies for clean energy production under its new Green Energy Act, many more clean energy developers probably have their eye on Ontario as well.

With a project so big and so close to home, the US may start to take the clean energy and climate change legislation that is currently in the Senate a little more seriously. We will see.

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Why not Ohio? Is it because we have a fossil fuel Governor in the likes of Ted Strickland? A Governor who never met a nuke or coal plant he didn't like?

Blue-green jobs are out there, except their going to Canada, while Ohio gets no jobs and only more and more dirty pollution from Ted Strickland's dirty coal plants.