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What’s the Industrial Authority’s Plan?

Appended is my LTE in the VDT today.
I’ve added links. -jsq



What is the Industrial Authority’s plan to bring in real clean jobs?


MAGE SOLAR is hiring for the first of 350 jobs
in its photovoltaic (PV) solar manufacturing plant in Dublin, Georgia, with half
the population of Valdosta, in Laurens County, with half the
population of Lowndes County. They’ve parlayed their position
between the Atlanta airport and the Savannah seaport for
many new clean jobs.

Suniva of Norcross’s second PV plant with its 500 jobs
went to Michigan.
Saginaw Valley calls itself Solar Valley and collaborates
with governments, academia, and industry, winning thousands of clean
jobs in wind and solar manufacturing and generating plants.


The Saginaw News remarked (7 Nov 2010):

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Suniva went to Solar Valley, Michigan, which has a plan



Suniva’s

second solar PV manufacturing plant that Georgia couldn’t keep
went to Saginaw, Michigan,

where the editorial board of The Saginaw News lists it as
just one bullet item:

• Georgia-based solar panel maker Suniva is well along in its federal loan guarantee application so it can build a plant in Saginaw County.

So what is the big news that they’re editorializing about?

The Solar Valley is starting to snowball.

Amid the campaigning and squabbling on the Friday before last week’s
statewide election were two electric announcements promising a big buzz
for our region’s future.

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