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Hi Bruce and all,<br>
<br>
Here is an email that I sent out in April that reveals Vote Solar's
funding relationship with fossil fuel energy corporations...<br>
<br>
previously I wrote:<br>
<br>
Vote Solar just proudly announced its successful fundraising event
<br>
'Equinox 2' in which, among its major donors, were PG&E, Edison,
Chevron
<br>
and BP.
<br>
<br>
see <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.votesolar.org/equinox2/thank_you/">http://www.votesolar.org/equinox2/thank_you/</a>
<br>
and also the previous year's Equinox fundraiser at
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.votesolar.org/equinox/thank_you/">http://www.votesolar.org/equinox/thank_you/</a>
<br>
<br>
Vote Solar is the organization (founded by now SFPUC Commissioner David
<br>
Hochschild) which also put forward the poorly written solar Prop B in
<br>
2001 for 50 mw of solar on City facilities. Prop B passed, but failed
to
<br>
implement because of its poor funding plan combined with the fact that
<br>
the SFPUC made no effort to find a way to make it work. No solar
<br>
facilities were ever built through Prop B, although Vote Solar's web
<br>
site blatantly and falsely claims otherwise. (See
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.votesolar.org/city-initiatives/successes.html">http://www.votesolar.org/city-initiatives/successes.html</a>
)
<br>
<br>
David Hochschild is the architect of the Mayor's weak privatized solar
<br>
proposals. Vote Solar has been
one of the most vocal proponents of the Mayor's proposals. Though
<br>
Hochschild is no longer with Vote Solar, he spoke and hobnobbed at the
<br>
Equinox fundraiser. As did Phil Ting (who helped Hochschild create and
<br>
sponsor the Mayor's solar program), along with Mayor Newsom himself,
<br>
Assemblymember Mark Leno (who has frequently sponsored milquetoast
<br>
renewable energy legislation which has basically amounted to faux stuff
<br>
that allows PG&E to remain dominant in our Northwest power market)
and,
<br>
Adam Werbach, the new greenwash champion for Walmart and Wall Street..
<br>
<br>
David Hochschild -is- however VP for External Relations for Solaria
<br>
Corp., a private solar technologies company which is one of those proud
<br>
new Equinox funders of Vote Solar.
<br>
<br>
I didn't even notice the note on Hochschild's corporate position when I
<br>
saw the press release for his appointment to the SFPUC last year, but
<br>
now that I've picked up on it I'm pretty shocked. A man with that kind
<br>
of energy corporation conflict of interest should not have even made it
<br>
onto the SFPUC commission in the first place, and should certainly at
<br>
the very least be recusing himself on all votes related to solar power
<br>
funding.
<br>
<br>
This all puts into even starker contrast the fact that, although
<br>
Hochschild has vociferously upbraided the SFPUC staff for not creating
<br>
solar and other renewables programs in San Francisco, he has never once
<br>
in those tirades mentioned the massively promising Community Choice
<br>
project, which would have already been out for bids long ago were it
not
<br>
for both constant interference from the SFPUC staff, and a resolute and
<br>
total lack of support from the SFPUC commissioners themselves
(including
<br>
former commissioner Adam Werbach).
<br>
<br>
It has become clear to me that Hochschild and is his ilk are nothing
<br>
more than the next generation of private corporate developers
<br>
manipulating their way into sweetheart deals for their own companies at
<br>
the expense of the public good, while steering city government away
from
<br>
publicly owned energy projects, into cozy and corrupt 'public/private
<br>
partnerships'.
<br>
<br>
I would have thought that the visionary renewable energy industry could
<br>
have avoided this typical, tawdry trough feeding. I guess I was wrong.
<br>
<br>
peace
<br>
<br>
Eric Brooks<br>
<br>
Bruce Wolfe wrote:
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Eric,<br>
Where can I find the evidence that they get funding from those corps?<br>
Bruce<br>
<br>
<br>
Eric Brooks wrote:
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<div>Hi all, <br>
<br>
See below the verbatim alert from 'Vote Solar' (which gets funding from
fossil fuel energy corporations like PG&E, Chevron, BP, and
Edison); an alert that ridiculously says we should tell our
congressmembers that they should approve the Wall Street bank bail-out
and sell out the American people and economy to massive corrupt
mega-banks and insurance companies, just because the sell-out/bail-out
now contains an amendment that extends solar credits. Perhaps 'Vote
Solar' would care to address the reality that hundreds of thousands of
homeowners under mortgage stress and out of work because the bail-out
bill doesn't help them, will not be able to buy solar panels at any
price...<br>
<br>
Here's 'Vote Solar's' absurd alert:<br>
<br>
Vote Solar wrote:<br>
<br>
Friends,</div>
<div><span><br>
Congress is set to vote on the future of solar in America in the next
36 hours.<br>
<br>
The Senate has included the critical clean energy tax
incentives--including an 8 year extension of the 30% investment tax
credit, with removal of residential caps--in the bailout package (aka
the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008). This adds a
significant job development enhancement to the package--according to <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2Fa577dIbE2iNftMZLLtSVGbTQF2JKxCP">this
study</a> by Navigant, 1.2 million of them. Now the bailout is not
just greenbacks for Wallstreet, but also green jobs for Mainstreet, if
you will. The bill will likely pass the Senate tonight, but prospects
in the House are much more uncertain.</span></div>
<p><span>If you want to see the tax credits go through, call your
representative in the House to urge their support for <span>the
Senate-passed Stabilization Bill.</span><br>
<br>
<b><i><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">-Call Instructions-</span></i></b><br>
<br>
1) Call the Capitol Hill Switchboard (202-224-3121) and ask for your
House Member's office number.<br>
<br>
2) When you call the office, state your name and location and ask to be
transferred to the Chief of Staff. If she/he isn't available, ask to
leave a message for her/him. <br>
<br>
3) Sample message: "My name is _____ and I am calling from (location)
to urge Representative XX to vote "YES" on the Economic Stabilization
bill coming over from the Senate. The clean energy tax incentives
extender package was added to the bill, and if signed into law, 1.2
million employment opportunities, including 440,000 permanent jobs, and
$232 billion in new investment would be generated in the U.S. by the
solar energy sector alone through 2016. Thank you in advance for
building the clean energy economy of tomorrow by voting YES on the
Economic Stabilization Bill coming over from the Senate."</span></p>
<br>
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span
style="font-family: Verdana;">Onwards,<br>
<br>
Annie and the Vote Solar Team<br>
The Vote Solar Initiative<br>
300 Brannan Street, Suite 609<br>
San Francisco, CA 94107<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.votesolar.org">www.votesolar.org</a><br>
<br>
to subscribe: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/votesolar/signUp.jsp?key=987">http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/votesolar/signUp.jsp?key=987</a><br>
<br>
to unsubscribe: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/votesolar/unsubscribe.jsp">http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/votesolar/unsubscribe.jsp</a><br>
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