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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Chris_ on September 21, 2009, 12:45:19 PM
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Audit Finds Waste in 'Green' Projects
The four drafty buildings had been fixtures of the Energy Department complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn., for more than half a century. They burned energy like 1950s sedans.
The buildings seemed like perfect candidates for a federal conservation retrofit program that relies on private contractors that receive a percentage of the money they save. A deal was struck in 2001. The contractors reworked lighting and heating systems, among other things, and began collecting payments.
The project was counted among the department's "green" successes -- until auditors discovered that the buildings had been torn down several years ago, and the government had paid $850,000 for energy savings at facilities that no longer existed.
The audit findings show the potential for waste and abuse at a time when the department is poised to launch billions of dollars more in stimulus spending on an unprecedented welter of green projects across the country.
MORE (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/20/AR2009092001917.html)
algore is just laughing his a$$ off.
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This entire article is bunk because...
Green projects ARE waste.