Pahrump About To Be Screwed

Pahrump, a city about 60 miles from Las vegas (and was featured on COPs tonight) is about to be screwed by a green energy company.
From the Pahrump Valley Times: After 15 months of courtship, a Pahrump economic development official says a company that builds state-of-the-art wind turbines is opening up shop here.
Pahrump Community Business and Development Services Manager Al Balloqui says Wind Sail Receptors Inc. plans to purchase a 15,000-square-foot facility in Pahrump, with intentions of expanding it to more than 45,000 square feet.
“I don’t want to mention the specific site, because it’s still in escrow,” said Balloqui. “They’ve got an offer on it, it’s 15,000 square feet. They’re going to build another 30,000 square feet.” Once fully developed, the company is expecting to employ up to 230 workers. Eighty full-time positions are expected to be filled by the end of this year with an average wage of $23.57 per hour.
Balloqui said the potential for new jobs goes even further than staffing the manufacturing facility. Wind Sail Receptors Inc. performs all of the maintenance on receptors sold, so the possibility of the company training locals to maintain the receptors is high.
A June 14 letter of support sent by Town Manager Bill Kohbarger to the Nevada Commission on Economic Development states, “Wind Sail also anticipates making a capital investment of over $6 million … The incentives offered by the state are imperative to this project,” he wrote.
An item on the commission’s June 21 agenda was approved, giving Wind Sail Receptors, Inc. a training grant for $162,000. The patent paperwork, filed Nov. 7, 2005, reveals that the sail receptors generate power from wind or water flow using six to 10 identical, equally-spaced blades. http://pvtimes.com/news/turbine-maker-eyes-building-local-factory/
Well, it looks like the company just got $162,000 of taxpayer money.
But I have documented the frauds of green companies in Henderson and Boulder City NV. and Wisconsin Rapids, WI. and other places in the country have perpetrated on the communities. And it looks like Pahrump is next.
Further, it looks like government money is drying up for these types of companies. From the Las Vegas Sun: The Energy Department has been teaming up with Nevada lawmakers on an almost monthly basis to announce loan guarantees for renewable energy projects across the Silver State, each of which is expected to create a few hundred jobs.
It’s been a pretty good ride, congressional staffers (Democrats, really) remark; but it’s one that soon could come to an end.
It’s not because Republicans are threatening to strip money out of a program born of the stimulus: It’s because the program is approaching its expiration date, and it isn’t clear if there’s a politically palatable way to extend it.
Renewable energy project managers have known, since the $30 billion in loan guarantees created by Section 1705 of the stimulus became available, that they’d have to break ground on or before Sept. 30 to keep the funding. http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/jun/25/deadlines-may-shelve-renewable-energy-projects/
So, look out Pahrump- they already got $162,000 of government money, I hope Pahrump knows what it is getting into. Here is some advice: Don't listen to Harry Reid and his followers, make sure the company starts running the factory before committing any money and hold the owners responsible- not the corporations.