Green Energy Jobs? Not So Much In Las Vegas

The Brookings Institute did a survey of green jobs and green economy and it shows that that green energy is not doing what it promised, created thousands of jobs and bring Las Vegas out it's depression.
From the LVRJ: The Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program today releases rankings placing Las Vegas in the bottom half of the nation's 100 biggest cities in the size, concentration and export power of its green economy, a sector that includes renewable energy, mass transit, recycling and energy-saving building materials...
Las Vegas had just under 10,000 clean jobs in 2010, ranking it No. 54 among the country's biggest metro areas. That jobs count made up 1.2 percent of the local employment base, a concentration that ranked No. 84 nationwide. Las Vegas came in at No. 87 on exports, creating international exports worth $5,937 per green job in 2009...
Overall, though, the results look like a bit of a blow to the idea, often repeated by local and state officials and business leaders, that the green economy, from renewable energy to clean-product manufacturing, could turn around the Las Vegas economy.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has used his position to spotlight Southern Nevada's green potential, drawing political luminaries such as Bill Clinton and Al Gore to his annual National Clean Energy Summit. Congress has allotted more than $1 billion in stimulus funds and loan guarantees to Nevada for renewable power lines, generating stations, home-weatherization programs and worker-training initiatives during the recession. And the Nevada Development Authority has included renewable energy on its list of economic-diversification targets for at least half a decade.
The Brookings report did register an especially big spike in local green-jobs creation after 2008, when federal stimulus spending jumped. Still, the study disappointed some local members of the green economy
http://www.lvrj.com/business/report-lv-s-green-economy-still-green-125472758.html
While almost 10,000 jobs is nice, Harry Reid has promised but failed to deliver these green jobs.
Further, I would like to see what kind of jobs are considered "green jobs". Are the jobs like plumbers who install a green energy product or a sales person who sells them, like a worker at Wal-Mart or Lowes?
Green energy is not the solution to unemployment woes in Nevada. Most projects are frauds or pipe dreams, but politician love to get on the band wagon. But where are they when the plant is not built or the green project runs aways with the money the government has given them? No where.
Green energy can be a nice industry but it is not an industry that will turn the economy around. But politicians like Harry Reid, Shelly Berkley and President Obama just don't get it.