County approves tax break for 'green' energy FREMONT -- Sandusky County commissioners voted unanimously to designate the county as an alternative energy zone, which will provide tax breaks to green energy industries moving to the area. The decision was made Thursday as German-based wind turbine ... Mid-Norfolk MP George Freeman’s green energy pledge during Ridgeons visit By dominic bareham The MP for Mid-Norfolk said he was sympathetic to the need for tax breaks to help the emerging green energy industry during a visit to a construction firm yesterday. To send a link to this page to a friend, simply enter their email ... ‘Green energy’ used as a pretext for land grabbing Most of the current land conflicts in the country pit villagers against investors in agriculture who mainly cultivate crops for the production of ‘green energy’, a research conducted by the Lawyers’ Environmental Action Team (Leat) shows.Leat is a civil society organization that conducts activism on issues of land and investments in the country.The research conducted recently in Tanga, Lindi and Coast regions reveals a new trend of land-grabbing through the ‘noble cause’ of production of bio-energy that would save the world from further warming caused by fossil fuels.A separate research conducted in Tanzania by the US-based Oakland Institute last year indic... Obama's Green Energy Investment Continues to Deliver Lousy Results Industrial Policy: In recent days we learned sales of the Volt and Leaf cratered, President Obama's failed green jobs program is under investigation, and another "clean energy" company's in trouble. Green is the new red. Each week, it seems, ... Jerry Taylor & Peter Van Doren By Jerry Taylor & Peter Van Doren President Obama is obsessed with green energy as a terrier is obsessed with a bone. He digs the issue up time and time again with a single-mindedness that is remarkable in contemporary politics. 'Green' energy is mostly hype The government's green energy policy is taking many people into fuel poverty because they are unable to pay the extra £200 to £300 on their bills. The wind turbines and solar generators are manufactured outside of the UK, and it is only the investors ... Middle East trails again in g... JPost By Ronen Zvulun/Reuters ABU DHABI/DUBAI - Talk of a Middle Eastern green energy boom is likely to prove no more than a mirage with little hope of the region saving clean technology companies from the shrinking project pools of Europe. Intel uses more green energy than anyone else in the US Intel Corp. currently uses more green energy than any other single organization in the US to power its American operations, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency. Intel used about 2.5bn kWh of solar and wind power to power 88% of its US ... Green energy project, jobs at standstill in Danville US Green Energy is running behind on creating jobs and building its Cane Creek Centre facility, but company leaders say they will make it happen. The company and local economic development officials estimate the company is a year behind on investing ...

India records world-beating green energy growth India's transformation into a cleantech powerhouse moved up a gear in 2011 when it racked up investments of $10.3bn in the sector, a growth rate of 52 per cent year on year that dwarfed the rest of the world's significant economies.