Sunday, June 28, 2009
Unions Block Non-Union Solar Projects
This is what unions do, so we shouldn't be surprised.
The annoying thing is that unions don't feel bad about raising the bar and costs for something intended to benefit people...
The annoying thing is that unions don't feel bad about raising the bar and costs for something intended to benefit people...
At BusinessInsider.com, Jay Yarow reports on a recent N.Y. Times article:
"When a company called Ausra filed plans for a big solar power plant in California, it was deluged with demands from a union group that it study the effect on creatures like the short-nosed kangaroo rat and the ferruginous hawk.
By contrast, when a competitor, BrightSource Energy, filed plans for an even bigger solar plant that would affect the imperiled desert tortoise, the same union group, California Unions for Reliable Energy, raised no complaint. Instead, it urged regulators to approve the project as quickly as possible."
