Excerpt: "Last week found the right-wing echo chamber, from Fox News to the New York Post and the conservative blogosphere, in an anti-green frenzy based on faux facts from a new book, 'Throw Them All Out.'"

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (photo: Santa Clara University)

Big Carbon's Sock Puppets Declare War

By Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Reader Supported News

25 November 11

Big Carbon's sock puppets declare war on America and the planet.

t's now become de rigueur among the radical right-wing rhetoricians to characterize any government support of America's green energy sector as wasteful, fruitless, and scandalous. They greeted with glee the collapse of the government supported solar company, Solyndra, America's first major casualty in our race with China to dominate the "new energy" economy. With Solyndra dying on the battlefield - its marketplace choking on inexpensive Chinese solar panels - the right-wing's response was to hoist the white flag and declare defeat in the war for global cleantech leadership. That brand of "Can't Do" cowardice is a boon to the carbon and nuclear power incumbents who fund so much of the right-wing's activities - but it's bad for America.

Leveraging the aberrant Solyndra bankruptcy, these groups have launched an orchestrated series of attacks against the renewables sector by trying to discredit other companies, even those that are driving America forward with innovative solutions that actually do compete on a global basis. For example, last month, Fox News ran a story insinuating that SunPower received a loan guarantee for its Central Valley Solar Ranch project because of its political connections Congressman George Miller. The story also suggested that SunPower was struggling financially and posed another risk to taxpayers - a la Solyndra. The truth is that SunPower is one of America's strongest solar manufacturing companies and Mr. Miller had nothing to do with the company receiving a loan guarantee for its Central Valley Solar Ranch Project. To Fox News and other right-wing media sources, the facts meant very little. Their intent is only to suggest wrong-doing in an attempt to undermine the Obama Administration and its clean energy goals.

Last week found the right-wing echo chamber, from Fox News to the New York Post and the conservative blogosphere, in an anti-green frenzy based on faux facts from a new book, "Throw Them All Out." The author of this far-fetched screed is Peter Schweizer, Sarah Palin's foreign policy guru, currently employed by the Hoover Institution, a think tank funded largely by oil interests (e.g., Exxon, ARCO, Transamerica, and Richard Mellon Scaife's oil and banking fortune) to craft the philosophical underpinnings for unregulated pollution, unrestricted corporate profit taking, and massive corporate welfare for the carbon/nuke incumbents.

Thanks to a mention in Schweizer's far-fetched opus, I got a shout out, last week from most of these crackpot gas bags. The Daily Mail summarized my supposed crimes in its headline: "JFK's nephew received $1.4 billion dollar taxpayer bailout for his struggling green energy firm."

All of the reported "facts" in this blogosphonic barrage were Schweizer's inventions. Schweizer claims that BrightSource Energy received a government bailout due to political influence exerted on behalf of VantagePoint Capital Partners, where I am a partner and which is the largest institutional shareholder of BrightSource.

The actual facts do not support Schweizer's claims. BrightSource Energy did not receive a bailout. Rather, the Ivanpah project, a 392 megawatt solar thermal project in the Mojave Desert that will provide clean power to 140,000 homes, received a loan guarantee from the Department of Energy (DOE). Ivanpah, which broke ground in October 2010, is majority owned by Google and energy giant NRG. BrightSource is a minority owner of and the technology supplier to the Ivanpah project. The underlying loan from private investors is fully secured, and pays interest that will earn a healthy return for U.S. taxpayers.

Unlike Solyndra which received corporate financing from DOE, and which had no assurance that it would be able to sell its product, Ivanpah and the Central Valley Solar Ranch projects have contractual commitments from California's largest utilities to buy all of its power at fixed prices. This is comparable to building a new hotel with the guarantee that it will have 100% occupancy rates for 20+ years.

Schweizer's claims that the loan guarantee works out to a cost to taxpayers of $1 million per job is also a canard.

The Ivanpah project is one of the largest infrastructure projects in the nation and the largest solar thermal plant under construction in the world. The project's three year construction phase will create 1,400 highly-skilled trade, engineering and construction jobs at peak. These are high paying union jobs in a region plagued by one of America's highest unemployment rates. The project will generate $250 million in earnings for these construction workers and, over its 30 year life, will produce $650 million in earnings for workers on the site, including the 90 permanent jobs required to operate the plant.

Finally, the $2.2 billion Ivanpah project is an investment in America's future with substantial indirect economic benefits locally and across the nation. The majority of the project's supply chain is being sourced domestically across 17 states, driving investments throughout the country and creating additional jobs in other areas of the United States that have been adversely affected by the economic downturn. The Ivanpah project is also generating $300 million in state and local tax revenues over its life.

The right-wing's campaign against the DOE's support of renewable energy is not in our national interest. The DOE loan guarantee program has been extremely successful in providing debt financing to innovative energy projects in the wake of the 2008 credit market challenges. Access to capital is a crucial component of building innovative energy infrastructure and creating economic benefit. The DOE loan guarantee program has also been very successful at attracting private capital to these projects. Each dollar appropriated for the program leverages $13 dollars in private sector investment. As of August 2011, DOE had made commitments to 37 clean energy projects, leveraging private investment of more than $40 billion. This includes more than 10 utility-scale solar power projects in the Southwest, including SunPower's Central Valley Solar Ranch and BrightSource's Ivanpah. These projects are estimated to create tens of thousands of jobs across the country.

Where Is the Right-Wing Opposition to the Obscene Subsidies to Carbon and Nuke?

The frenzy against government support for green energy is ironic considering the silence from those same quarters regarding the hundreds of billions of dollars in annual subsidies and externalized costs flowing from government and the American public to the carbon and nuke companies that fund the right-wing think tanks and the conservative blogosphere.

The same DOE loan guarantee program that supported the solar projects gave an astonishing $8.3 billion loan guarantee - many times the size of the solar projects - to Southern Company to build two nuclear power plants. Nuclear power is an industry with a product so expensive it cannot compete in any version of free market capitalism. Big nuke is totally dependent on massive, monstrous public and government subsidies at every stage of its life. Oil is a close second. A comprehensive inventory of oil subsidies by former California EPA Chief Terry Tamminen, in his acclaimed book Lives Per Gallon, calculates U.S. subsidies to the oil industry at upward of one trillion dollars annually!

The Rise of Green Energy

This blogosphere wrangling is part of a larger struggle pitting disruptive technologies like LED lights, electric cars, and renewable energy such as wind and solar - the clean, green democratic, abundant, and patriotic fuels from heaven - against the powerful incumbents of coal, oil, and nuke - the destructive, plutocratic, largely foreign owned, addictive, poisonous, destructive, and war breeding fuels from hell.

The green fuels are winning. Solar power is now at or near grid parity in many U.S. states. That means that solar generators can deliver electricity to consumers at or below the cost of coal or oil, without even considering the catastrophic health and environmental costs that these dirty sources create. Energy industry giants like NRG, which owns coal and nuke fleets, are moving aggressively into solar. "Solar is the future," says NRG CEO David Crane. "Over the long term, solar won't need the government to drive adaptation - the pace of innovation is so rapid and the costs are dropping so quickly that the marketplace will ultimately force the transition. Government incentives are important in that they will drive a quicker adaptation and keep American companies in the game."

Crane points out that his vendors are already offering solar panels at slightly less than $1.00 per watt, leading to an all-in cost of installed solar on a distributed basis of $2.50/watt. This, according to Crane, translates into 12¢/kilowatt hour, making home grown solar energy cheaper than the grid in 20 states.

Experience shows that these industries are demonstrated jobs producers. There are already more Americans employed by the solar industry (110,000) than there are coal miners (90,000), and the wind industry (75,000) is rapidly expanding its workforce.

The only questions now are: How fast will the transition occur? Which nations will lead the way and reap the financial rewards of that leadership?

Unfortunately, due to the outsized influence of big coal, oil, and nuke on our Congress, America is lagging.

China's Leadership

China's bold strategy is to dominate the new energy economy with giant investments in wind, solar, LED light bulbs, smart grid systems, and electric cars. Despite our strong lead among entrepreneurs, the American government's willingness to compete with the Chinese in these domains has been anemic. The Waxman-Markey bill, which passed the House and then died under pressure from the carbon cronies in the Senate, would have increased solar deployment in America by a mere 37% by 2020. The Chinese have already committed to increase their solar development by 20,000% during that period and wind development by 1200%. While the right-wing whines about a $1.6 billion loan guarantee to a solar project, the Chinese are funneling $758 billion to their solar and wind industry over 5 years.

I commend the Chinese for their commitment to transition to a green energy economy. But I refuse to accept the right-wing narrative that America can no longer compete in the world marketplace. Americans still lead the world in patents filed and the other indicia of entrepreneurship. The promising new technologies and young green tech companies that I see daily are challenged principally by a lack of capital available from our banks and government. This is more than an issue of national wealth and prosperity - our national security is also at stake. The war by America's carbon and nuclear energy industries and their right-wing allies, against our country's burgeoning cleantech industry is damaging our economy and subverting our national security, just as it has in the past led us into oil wars. When I was a boy, America owned half the wealth on Earth. We lost that advantage mainly due to our carbon addiction, which still causes us to hemorrhage nearly $750 billion annually in American wealth - the cost of importing foreign oil. The Chinese would naturally like us to spend what's left of our national wealth purchasing Chinese solar panels, Chinese LED lights, and Chinese wind turbines and electric cars.

Democrats and Republicans in Congress, many in the thrall of Big Carbon, are sitting on their hands as the hemorrhage continues. The incumbents are able to control the political process in Washington with the support of their right-wing media flacks, and with hundreds of millions in annual contributions and lobbying. Such investments allow the incumbents to reap hundreds of billions in annual subsidies from U.S. taxpayers, artificially ballooning their profits. These are self-destructive policies for America. With the same resolve that established America's industrial and technological greatness in the 20th century, leading the transition to a new energy economy is America's best hope for true national security, prosperity, and restoring our global leadership and moral authority.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is President of Waterkeeper Alliance, Senior Attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, and a Partner in VantagePoint Capital Partners.

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+16 # fredboy 2011-11-25 12:21

Reminds me of a standing joke here in polluted Florida: A guy walks in a bar and says he wants to hire a prostitute. The bartender says "Save your money by hiring a biologist--they're cheaper and they do whatever you say."

+17 # WLawpsh 2011-11-25 12:24

Well Robert, you're a lawyer, how about helping put an end to the imperialism pursuant to which the military industrial complex so feared by Eisenhower in his farewell address, and its modern extension the international finance industry centered on Wall Street, implement the problem you have identified among many others such perpetual wars and genocides against those too weak to defend themselves other than pursuant to the rule of law that since enactment of the two federal imperial statutes the Appropriations Act of 1871 and the War Powers Act of 1973 has been inoperative because the US Supreme Court obstructs and ignores the constitutional question of that ordinary legislation's manifest abrogation of the constitutional policy of peace based upon respect for the territorial sovereignty of foreign Nations and Indian tribes? See, Justice as Truth Legal Argument and Justice as Truth Legal Proof at the website of the Mahican and Mi'kmaq Indian Tribes “Might Is Not Right”. Nobody pays attention to us. Maybe they might to you? Since the Constitution already establishes the right and remedy all that remains as a practical matter is to persuade the Court to permit it to rule, which is to say to permit the People whose constitution it is to be sovereign as it intends.

+20 # CL38 2011-11-25 18:58

How about Robert Kennedy, Al Gore, Robert Redford and many others who have worked in support of the environment coming together for class action suit again some of these industries?

+45 # jwb110 2011-11-25 12:35

Look, it has been pretty clear that if the Fox News lips are moving that they are lying. This is nothing new.
Stop preaching to the choir and start giving people the kind of RSN news that doesn't exhaust them but inspires and shows them ways to bypass the idiocy of the GOP/TP and their creepy friends.
How about running the idea of Occupy "K" Street passed the RSN public?
OWS has proven we are not downtrodden. We were merely silent a little too long.
99.9% cannot be beat! That is where we begin.

+29 # stevb 2011-11-25 13:03

Critically important. How to disseminate to a wider population? RFK, jr ought challenge Obama and use the resulting publicity and media coverage to drill this message into the campaign and into the country's awareness. Obama is too narcissistic to recognize the criticality of this and too afraid "the right thing" will lead to defeat that he has to be pushed. Kennedy would automatically have the attention of the media and people would take notice and listen.

-4 # Ecopolitidae 2011-11-25 14:41

But WAIT! There is more to the story. Kennedy is deceptively representing the interests of the 1%. Continuation of the destructive, OLD ENERGY MODEL that enriches the 1%, (monopoly energy industry) at the expense of the 99% (ratepayers) is not the solution. Ivanpah, and massive, remote industrial solar projects like it are destroying our, publicly owned, ecologically vital desert ecosystems - and the myriad of endangered species that depend on them - forever. These centralized power plants also siphon all the economic benefits to the 1% while the 99% pays. The transition to solar and wind energy offers us a historical opportunity to democratize our energy system. We should be fighting for policies that promote decentralized, locally owned, green (i.e. environment friendly) energy in the VAST urban environment. Local DG will create magnitudes more jobs and economic benefit for real people, businesses and communities, while protecting the environment. More here: http://slvrenewablecommunities.blogspot.com/2011/11/bigger-subsidies-make-bigger-solar-bad.html
Also see "MIKE CHECK" above.

-13 # Ecopolitidae 2011-11-25 13:29

MIKE CHECK. Mr. Kennedy avoids legitimate questions about Obama's solar policy by associating criticism of Ivanpah only with the extreme right wing. He claims that, "solar generators can deliver electricity to consumers at or below the cost of coal or oil, without even considering the catastrophic health and environmental costs that these dirty sources create", but not so with Ivanpah. The massive remote power tower power plant is far more expensive and destructive than solar PV. The 20-year PPA is "confidential", so ratepayers will never know the price of energy generated from Ivanpah. Broad exemptions to environmental laws were required to permit Ivanpah and 3,000 tortoises will be killed and/or displaced by the project. Displacing Big Destructive Fossil Fuels with Big Destructive Solar and Wind, is a continuation of the old "energy for the 1% paid for by the 99%" model. Sun, wind, water, geothermal and even fossil fuel energy belongs to all of us. All the solar goods that he falsely claims will be gained from Ivanpah, can really only be realized through broadly democratic, distributed solar PV in our VAST urban environment. Energy for the 99%! http://slvrenewablecommunities.blogspot.com/2011/11/bigger-subsidies-make-bigger-solar-bad.html

-4 # Ecopolitidae 2011-11-25 13:41

@"the $2.2 billion Ivanpah project is an investment in America's future with substantial indirect economic benefits locally and across the nation". Again, if invested in local distributed solar PV, this same $2.2 billion would generate magnitudes more jobs and economic benefit for real people, businesses and communities. Ivanpah monopolizes solar energy for the 1%.

+4 # reiverpacific 2011-11-26 10:19

Quoting

@"the $2.2 billion Ivanpah project is an investment in America's future with substantial indirect economic benefits locally and across the nation". Again, if invested in local distributed solar PV, this same $2.2 billion would generate magnitudes more jobs and economic benefit for real people, businesses and communities. Ivanpah monopolizes solar energy for the 1%.

Nice lecture BUT WAIT!
Whilst community-based green is good and laudable, the true core of the 1% would find that somewhat utopian model very easy to circumvent with heavy funding and reactionary propaganda in their owner-media.
Community-based trading and building can carry on in each self-defining community But:- what the rest of us need is the critical mass begun by OWS with the AID and resources of some of the wealthier non-reactionary, even progressive people like Kennedy, (I still sometimes have my suspicions about Gore but we need all the help we can get -this is GLOBAL after all!), Michael Moore, Russel Means- and so on to speak for the voiceless of the 99% WHICH INCLUDES the indigenous peoples and other species of the planet where we live in the great circle of life.
We all need each other, so please don't nit-pick and chuck the bath water on the baby you've already thrown out!

+26 # Alcuin 2011-11-25 13:48

Pow!! Take that, right-wing! Not that they will consider Kennedy's points, though. We are witnessing the death throes of the right-wing - their time is past. All they can do is obstruct and whine. There is no leadership or vision on the right side of the aisle any longer.

-9 # Ecopolitidae 2011-11-25 14:45

Ivanpah is still energy for the 1% at the expense of the 99%. Kennedy avoids facing the legitimate problems with the Obama - benefit the 1% - clean energy policies, and the need for a real energy democracy revolution: http://slvrenewablecommunities.blogspot.com/2011/11/bigger-subsidies-make-bigger-solar-bad.html

+29 # cadan 2011-11-25 13:54

The Ivanpah project sounds very good, and is a credit at least in part to RFK Jr and BrightSource Energy.

One of my coworkers claims that for the cost of the Iraq war we could have built a series of these projects in the southwest desert, providing more energy than we could ever hope to get from the Iraqi oil.

He might be right, and it would certainly have been a smarter gamble.

I hope we have many more projects like Ivanpah, and many fewer wars.

+4 # Ecopolitidae 2011-11-25 14:34

Continuation of the destructive, OLD ENERGY MODEL that enriches the 1%, (monopoly energy industry) at the expense of the 99% (ratepayers) is not the solution. I agree on ending the wars, but "many more projects like Ivanapah" would destroy our ecologically vital desert ecosystems (and the hundreds of species that depend on them) forever and siphon all economic benefits to the 1%. The transition to solar and wind energy offers a historical opportunity to democratize our energy system. We need policies that promote decentralized, locally owned, green (i.e. environment friendly) energy in the VAST urban environment. This approach will create magnitudes more jobs and economic benefit for real people, businesses and communities, while protecting the environment. More here: http://slvrenewablecommunities.blogspot.com/2011/11/bigger-subsidies-make-bigger-solar-bad.html

+6 # cadan 2011-11-25 18:52

Thanks Ecopolitidae for providing the link
http://slvrenewablecommunities.blogspot.com/2011/11/bigger-subsidies-make-bigger-solar-bad.html

In a way it is reminiscent of the health care problem, where we got some reform, but not single-payer.

I have mixed emotions here because in my heart i think RFK Jr did something good, and that we can be proud of. But i'm certainly willing to acknowledge that it may be much better yet if we can have a very decentralized system owned by small businesses and communities and individual people. It would be more robust anyway.

I hope you can continue to make a case and we can move to a better energy future than what we are facing now.

+1 # Ecopolitidae 2011-11-27 14:54

You're welcome cadan, and thank you. I agree, it is a lot like the health care problem; corporate parasitism of a resource that everyone needs. It's hard for people to imagine an energy/utility system that's decentralized and democratic but a few places (like Boulder, CO and Marin, CA) are taking back their energy futures. If you think about all the ways energy effects our lives, Energy Democracy should be a fundamental part of the Occupy movement. The alternative is increasingly toxic air and water, environmental degradation, extreme global warming and skyrocketing energy costs for the 99%.

+3 # roostergirl 2011-11-27 10:00

I like renewable energy (and Mr. Kennedy) in theory but, folks, don't kill the messenger. Ecopolitidae is spot on in questioning the wisdom of paving the Mohave and other landscapes with solar panels. Likewise, wind projects are full speed ahead without analysis of the eco and economic costs. The ecological damage of the current pro-solar, pro-wind push is potentially massive and is its promoters are unresponsive to solid scientific and economic sense. When political winds (and tax rebates) blow hard, I encourage everyone to be a skeptic and look for Big Energy and the 1% when evaluating each project. Concentrations of solar and wind energy (especially in remote, sensitive ecosystems) spell concentration of wealth and power.

+1 # Ecopolitidae 2011-11-27 14:56

We're in the early stages of an emerging Energy Democracy movement, it will take time for people to understand. Thanks for your support roostergirl!

+13 # universlman 2011-11-25 14:35

for over ten years our leaders seem unable to make smart decisions anymore - like developing any energy policy

they instead seem to have an unending ability to make dumb decisions like the iraq war and deregulating key bank practices

instead of intelligent and strong leadership we get a shot of pepper in the face - welcome to the future

+5 # racetoinfinity 2011-11-25 18:05

The reactionary, greedy, venal OIl&Gas carbon dinos are part of the 1% - they're in the top .1%, and we need to abandon them and move asap to a green, non-carbon based sustainable energy system. There are 99 reasons why, including having a halfway decent biosphere on this planet in the near future!! They will lie and put out b.s. propaganda with all their billions to pollute the underinformed's minds, but people are waking up. Occupy Big Oil&Gas!! and its well-paid servants in Washington. They are a death culture.

No more death cultures, no more war, no more destroying our beautiful planet.

+11 # adickinson 2011-11-25 21:58

Robert Kennedy Jr. is a great environmentalis t and an articulate person. I admire him and have heard wonderful speeches over the years from him. It's good to set the record straight and take the time to spell out the facts when Fox lays out their lies. How sick we all are of Fox News and their incessant and destructive lies! At the high school where I teach, someone started putting up posters to Boycott Fox News, and our principal actually sent out a school-wide email saying he wanted those taken down and wanted to find out who was putting them up. I should have made a stink about that. I'm going to check back and see if I wrote something courageous back. He probably watched Fox News himself, but an educational institution SHOULD be shining a light on them as a source of propaganda. Kennedy makes a positive statement of faith in Americans. It's good, but difficult, to keep hope alive.

0 # mwd870 2011-11-26 04:07

There is no right-wing opposition in favor of anything that is good for this country.

Thank you for being an activist and advocate against Big Carbon.

-1 # Ecopolitidae 2011-11-27 15:11

@mwd870. If only it were that simple. Global warming is a symptom of an economic system based on destructive extraction. Monopoly Energy is inherently destructive weather its fossil fuel or solar. The transition to renewable energy offers a historic opportunity to democratize and localize energy generation in the VAST urban environment that will generate magnitudes more jobs and economic benefit for real people, businesses and communities while preserving our remaining desert ecosystems. Sorry, but Kennedy's costly and destructive Ivanpah boondoggle is not what we need.

Learn more at: http://slvrenewablecommunities.blogspot.com/2011/11/bigger-subsidies-make-bigger-solar-bad.html

+3 # cvm79 2011-11-26 04:25

Since 2000 the Energy and Natural Resources Industry has contributed $23,805,521 to political campaigns in the State of Pennsylvania $17,147,486 (72%) of which went to Republican candidates. Is it any wonder they've been allowed to contaminate drinking water?

0 # lark3650 2011-11-26 10:10

I encourage everyone to read the book, "Imperial Washington." It is out-of-print but is available on abebooks.com Read this book written by R.F. Pettigrew, a senator from South Dakota in the late 1800s and you'll get a pretty good idea of how our legislature operates..and it is not in the interest of the American people.

0 # Ecopolitidae 2011-11-27 15:12

We can learn a lot from the Populist movement, thanks!

+3 # Electricrailwaygod 2011-11-26 14:12

One thing that still seems to be left out of the green equation is RAILWAY ELECTRIFICATION ! Yes it is a positive move to promote electric motorcars. I am myself a member of the EVA (Electric Vehicle Association locally in my area). However it appears that every civilised and industralised country on this planet with exception to North America (as I also cite fault with Canada and México as well) is there is still this unwillingness to make a serious and major attempt to electrify the existing and future railways on this continent! India, for example, being classified as a Third World Country has been systematically electrifying its vast railway system for several years now (the world's largest employer). My home, Europe has been in pursuit of railway electrification all during the Post War period -- and still is! Japan in my opinion has the best railway infrastructure on this planet -- second to none! Both for the JR and the privitised railway systems as well.

It is a shame that in North America there to this very moment seems to be this extreme opposition to the electrification of the trains. The ewalth this country (USA) claims to have every singly kilometre of track could have already been electrified! In fact over the decades, more than HALF of the trackage has been unfortunately "de-electrified"! And that's a shame!

0 # Electricrailwaygod 2011-11-26 14:25

Another comment: If these corporate thugs continue to destroy this planet (the biosphere thereof) on WHAT or WHERE are they going to spend their ill-gotten fortunes on anyway -- if there is nothing worthwhile to spend it on!?

It simply does not make any sense whatsoever! (Unless one would believe that these CEOs and right wing fascists are naught but the malevalent extraterrestria ls "in guise" that are stealing the resources for another planet and civilisation whilst "trashing" this one at the same time)! But frankly personally I am not a believer in all this UFO stuff anyway. The responsibility is right here on this planet -- exclusively!

0 # Electricrailwaygod 2011-11-26 16:54

Note: Typo! Correction "ewalth should be "wealth". Thanks!

0 # Progressive Patriot 2011-11-27 07:05

So, what's new? The oil, gas, and coal industry have been fighting development of alternative energy resources for decades.

0 # pernsey 2011-11-27 19:22

GOP = Greedy One Percent, cant stand anything that isnt going to make them money. Going green doesnt line their pockets with green.

NEVER EVER VOTE REPUBLICAN!!

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