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Countering the cacophony of crap against renewable energy

Renewable Energy Industry Pushes Back Against Bad Press Fox News, June 20, 2012 A new informational website called energyfactcheck.org   and launched Wednesday by one of the industry’s top Washington boosters will target reporters, political decision-makers, and anyone else willing to listen to the pitch that the industry is viable, despite some failures.

“The perception, because of the lack of fact-based information out there, is that we’re some fleeting, fly-by-night, government-dependent entity,” said Vice Admiral Dennis McGinn, a retired Navy officer and chief executive of the American Council on Renewable Energy, the nonprofit that is maintaining the new website.

“The fact is that we have real companies making real profits and making investments in renewable energy for all the right reasons.”
The council, which is funded by renewable energy companies and investors, announced the website Wednesday at the Renewable Energy Finance Forum it hosted here amid simmering frustration about how the some in the media and politics have portrayed renewable energy following the bankruptcy last year of Solyndra LLC. and other U.S. solar-energy firms.
Nicholas d’Arbeloff, president of regional development for Advanced Energy Economy, a business group, during one panel discussion bemoaned a “cacophony of crap, pardon my French, that is being thrown around at advanced energy and clean energy in the press today.”
Much of that press coverage has focused on attacks from Republicans, who have seized on the bankruptcy of Solyndra, the recipient of a $535 million federal loan guarantee, as part of attacks on President Barack Obama’s economic policies  http://www.foxbusiness.com/news/2012/06/20/renewable-energy-industry-pushes-back-against-bad-press/#ixzz1ySfGSTmQ

June 21, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Resources -audiovicual