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LEEDCo Gets More Taxpayer Money for Wind Project

May 26, 2016 by Paul Crowe

Your money handed to wind developers
Handing your money to wind developers to build wind turbines in Lake Erie

County Executive Kathy Dahlkemper, who is also on the board of LEEDCo, the Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation in Cleveland, Ohio, thinks it is great news that they’ve received another $3.7 million handout from the U.S. Department of Energy.

According to Dahlkemper:

Receiving this funding is great news for the development of wind energy, and moves this project one step closer to fruition

… I am proud to be a part of the team that is working to bring both renewable energy and jobs to our region

Taxpayers have now put up a total to $10.7 million to get LEEDCo’s wind energy operation off the ground (and into Lake Erie), unfortunately, without government grants to the wind industry, there is no wind industry. Any renewable energy jobs created will disappear immediately when the grant money runs out. Real businesses create products and services people want and will pay for and, as a result, private investors willingly risk their own money to fund them. Wind energy is not a real business.

Pro tip: If government grants are what your “business” runs on, you don’t have a business.

Source: Erie County via YourErie

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: boondoggle, county executive, green jobs, wind energy


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  1. Chris says

    May 29, 2016 at 5:43 pm

    I remember Kathy “Deer in the Headlights” Dahlkemper when she received so much “media” attention when she voted for the disaster commonly known as Obamacare. She never read it and even Pelosi said “We have to pass it so we can find out what is in it.”

    Now she has brought her brilliance back to Erie, after falling into total and laughable irrelevance in Washington, (where she was nothing but a pawn with not one original idea rattling around her vacuous head) and we are all going to fall victim again.

    Windmills? Really? Borrow money (on behalf of unknowing taxpayers) from others for bird, bat and butterfly killing turbines that will damage the most beautiful sunsets in the world for generations to come. Windmills have a less than 25% efficiency in this area and only exist because of the government’s ability to steal money from others, which is then turned into windmills in the lake, salaries for the dishonest promoters, along with the ALL-IMPORTANT RECYCLING OF A PERCENTAGE OF THE “LEEDCO TAKE” INTO CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS FOR CORRUPT POLITICIANS WHO WILLINGLY DECEIVE OTHERS INTO BELIEVING THIS ALL MAKES SENSE.

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