More corruption and crony capitalism by the Obama regime. Register this along with the thousands of other stories that will be ignored by the Democrat-controlled media.
Check back in a year or so, and it will be ‘lights’ out’ for this solar company (and your tax money) along with so many other Obama ‘green’ works.
Heritage ((h/t Weasel Zippers) – Internal emails show that BrightSource Energy, which received the largest federal loan for a solar energy project under President Obama’s stimulus package, leveraged its considerable political connections with top Democratic policymakers to secure its $1.6 billion in taxpayer backing.
BrightSource energy faced a “do-or-die moment,” according to a report in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal, as the Energy Department weighed a federal loan for its massive Ivanpah solar farm in the California Mojave Desert.
To spur the administration to approve the loan, BrightSource beefed up its lobbying presence, most notably by hiring Bernie Toon, former chief of staff for then-Senator Joe Biden, to lobby on its behalf. Toon was paid $40,000 for his efforts, according to disclosure forms. Keep reading…
That means solar energy is still developing