The Need For Cleaner Energy

Local governments also benefit from clean energy most often in the form of property and income taxes and other payments from renewable energy project owners.

The need for cleaner energy.

There is tremendous economic opportunity for the countries that invent. The clean energy council holds an annual event called clean energy week to explain the different ways we can produce clean energy. The industrial revolution which started a couple of hundred years ago produced all sorts of technology that made an enormous impact on people s lives. At the end of july more than half a million clean energy workers remained out of jobs including 8 000 plus in south carolina 17 of our once booming industry.

With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001 we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into american ingenuity in order to lead the world in new clean energy technology rather than playing catch up to the japanese danish and germans. We need to invest in all kinds of clean energy technologies if we re going to meet our climate goals. Owners of the land on which wind projects are built often receive lease payments ranging from 3 000 to 6 000 per megawatt of installed capacity as well as payments for power line. Many who are proponents of creating clean energy sources say that dependence on oil in foreign countries creates a host of diplomatic problems.

That s what we re doing in canada and nuclear energy is front and centre. Why we need clean energy. Most of the oil deposits in the world are gathered in a few places and the majority is located in the middle east. The clean energy industry generates hundreds of billions in economic activity and is expected to continue to grow rapidly in the coming years.

Write and call your elected officials participate in local meetings and above all vote. To get it back on track we ll need the continued commitment of our republican leadership at the state and congressional levels. This is a very exciting time. And canada is in a.

In fact we ve crunched the numbers and there s simply no credible scenario for canada to reach its goal of net zero emissions by 2050 without it. This is not the case with energy sources like oil. Bernard caleo a really cool and funny guy explains some of the different renewable energy technologies as part of the clean energy week education program last year in melbourne. Make your voice heard.