Yet Another Green Energy Boondoggle - ONLY $25 Million This Time

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A $25 million U.S.-funded project to help Guatemala combat global warming is being slammed as another taxpayer-backed boondoggle after a new audit highlighted a series of problems -- including numerous inaccuracies in the group's work and a failure to produce a required long-term plan.

Without the plan, the government audit warned, "the funds ... could be wasted."

The grant for the Climate, Nature and Communities in Guatemala Program was awarded to the nonprofit Rainforest Alliance in February 2013 by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) as part of a broader effort to fight climate change abroad.

USAID’s Office of Inspector General, which issued the audit last month, said the program was set up to help organizations and small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Guatemala improve climate-change strategies and strengthen local NGOs so the country’s environment could be conserved without future U.S. assistance. The report noted that as of February 2015, $10.5 million had been disbursed so far.

The audit acknowledged the program was making “some progress,” but it also alleged a laundry list of violations -- including that the reported results were not accurate.

The watchdog reported that data-testing revealed 22 errors in the accounting of whether the program was on track.
 
Sending borrowed money to "help" other countries.....

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The big money to be made in Green Energy is selling it to small and large countries across the World. Small countries like Guatemala can not say no to Obama-Dollars.

Banks and Wall st. will finance and make billions on the loans they make to finance thee most expensive form of Electricity the World has ever known. In small countries like Guatemala, the people have no choice, it is forced on them.

As we can see our Government along with our Universities are already exploiting this tiny 3rd World Country. Renewable Energy will cripple this country indebted Guatemala to the IMF and World Bank.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploa...567/GUATEMALA_-_Energy_Sector_Report_2013.pdf

Renewable energy potential Guatemala enjoys considerable renewable resources, which to date have not been fully taken advantage of. In fact, with 5,000MW of hydroelectric power potential, the country 3 Comisión Nacional de Energía Eléctrica (CNEE) Comisión Nacional de Energía Eléctrica, Guatemala 4 Administrador del Mercado Mayorista (AMM) http://amm.org.gt 5 API: American Petrol Institute gravity. only uses 17.06% (853MW); and with 1,000MW potential geothermal energy, just 4.92% (49.2MW) is used. Other sources of renewable energy have started to be developed. Wind, solar and biomass generation projects have been targeted as sustainable means to reduce the country’s dependence on hydrocarbons. Especially biomass where the local sugar industry has made significant investments to use the sugar-cane residues as a source of energy to their sugar production plants/mills. The current energy capacity installed and in use in Guatemala is as follows: Resource Capacity In Use % of Use Hydroelect ric 5,000MW 853.0MW 17.06 % Geothermi c 1,000MW 49.2MW 4.92% Biomass 700MW 381.0MW 54.43 % Solar 10,446GW /y 52.2GW/y ear 0.50% Wind 7,800MW 0.1MW 0.00% SOURCE: Ministry of Energy and Mines (2012) Three assessment products are under development: 1) A high (10-km) resolution solar map in cooperation with State University of New York (SUNY); 2) A medium (40-km) solar map in cooperation with the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL); and 3) A 1-km wind map in cooperation with NREL. A geospatial toolkit will integrate the solar and wind data with geographic information system (GIS) data to support an overall solar and w
 
Cherrypicking fallacy failure.

Also big lie. The report didn't say any money had been wasted. Spare Change just flat out lied with his headline.

But then, if they didn't lie about everything and fail hard at logic, they wouldn't be deniers.
 
Cherrypicking fallacy failure.

Also big lie. The report didn't say any money had been wasted. Spare Change just flat out lied with his headline.

But then, if they didn't lie about everything and fail hard at logic, they wouldn't be deniers.

Could you at least PRETEND to read the post? Did you follow the "audit" link?

Now, don't you feel stupid?

And, for such good reason ...
 
The big money to be made in Green Energy is selling it to small and large countries across the World. Small countries like Guatemala can not say no to Obama-Dollars.

Banks and Wall st. will finance and make billions on the loans they make to finance thee most expensive form of Electricity the World has ever known. In small countries like Guatemala, the people have no choice, it is forced on them.

As we can see our Government along with our Universities are already exploiting this tiny 3rd World Country. Renewable Energy will cripple this country indebted Guatemala to the IMF and World Bank.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploa...567/GUATEMALA_-_Energy_Sector_Report_2013.pdf

Renewable energy potential Guatemala enjoys considerable renewable resources, which to date have not been fully taken advantage of. In fact, with 5,000MW of hydroelectric power potential, the country 3 Comisión Nacional de Energía Eléctrica (CNEE) Comisión Nacional de Energía Eléctrica, Guatemala 4 Administrador del Mercado Mayorista (AMM) http://amm.org.gt 5 API: American Petrol Institute gravity. only uses 17.06% (853MW); and with 1,000MW potential geothermal energy, just 4.92% (49.2MW) is used. Other sources of renewable energy have started to be developed. Wind, solar and biomass generation projects have been targeted as sustainable means to reduce the country’s dependence on hydrocarbons. Especially biomass where the local sugar industry has made significant investments to use the sugar-cane residues as a source of energy to their sugar production plants/mills. The current energy capacity installed and in use in Guatemala is as follows: Resource Capacity In Use % of Use Hydroelect ric 5,000MW 853.0MW 17.06 % Geothermi c 1,000MW 49.2MW 4.92% Biomass 700MW 381.0MW 54.43 % Solar 10,446GW /y 52.2GW/y ear 0.50% Wind 7,800MW 0.1MW 0.00% SOURCE: Ministry of Energy and Mines (2012) Three assessment products are under development: 1) A high (10-km) resolution solar map in cooperation with State University of New York (SUNY); 2) A medium (40-km) solar map in cooperation with the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL); and 3) A 1-km wind map in cooperation with NREL. A geospatial toolkit will integrate the solar and wind data with geographic information system (GIS) data to support an overall solar and w

Huh? You're trying to defend this, with that piece of faulty logic??

The taxpayer has been boondoggled ... who do you suppose is paying for all those loans? Duh - the American taxpayer.

The government cheated you - and you want to try to defend it.

God save me from liberals ... they truly do the devil's work.
 
The big money to be made in Green Energy is selling it to small and large countries across the World. Small countries like Guatemala can not say no to Obama-Dollars.

Banks and Wall st. will finance and make billions on the loans they make to finance thee most expensive form of Electricity the World has ever known. In small countries like Guatemala, the people have no choice, it is forced on them.

As we can see our Government along with our Universities are already exploiting this tiny 3rd World Country. Renewable Energy will cripple this country indebted Guatemala to the IMF and World Bank.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploa...567/GUATEMALA_-_Energy_Sector_Report_2013.pdf

Renewable energy potential Guatemala enjoys considerable renewable resources, which to date have not been fully taken advantage of. In fact, with 5,000MW of hydroelectric power potential, the country 3 Comisión Nacional de Energía Eléctrica (CNEE) Comisión Nacional de Energía Eléctrica, Guatemala 4 Administrador del Mercado Mayorista (AMM) http://amm.org.gt 5 API: American Petrol Institute gravity. only uses 17.06% (853MW); and with 1,000MW potential geothermal energy, just 4.92% (49.2MW) is used. Other sources of renewable energy have started to be developed. Wind, solar and biomass generation projects have been targeted as sustainable means to reduce the country’s dependence on hydrocarbons. Especially biomass where the local sugar industry has made significant investments to use the sugar-cane residues as a source of energy to their sugar production plants/mills. The current energy capacity installed and in use in Guatemala is as follows: Resource Capacity In Use % of Use Hydroelect ric 5,000MW 853.0MW 17.06 % Geothermi c 1,000MW 49.2MW 4.92% Biomass 700MW 381.0MW 54.43 % Solar 10,446GW /y 52.2GW/y ear 0.50% Wind 7,800MW 0.1MW 0.00% SOURCE: Ministry of Energy and Mines (2012) Three assessment products are under development: 1) A high (10-km) resolution solar map in cooperation with State University of New York (SUNY); 2) A medium (40-km) solar map in cooperation with the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL); and 3) A 1-km wind map in cooperation with NREL. A geospatial toolkit will integrate the solar and wind data with geographic information system (GIS) data to support an overall solar and w

Huh? You're trying to defend this, with that piece of faulty logic??

The taxpayer has been boondoggled ... who do you suppose is paying for all those loans? Duh - the American taxpayer.

The government cheated you - and you want to try to defend it.

God save me from liberals ... they truly do the devil's work.
You ain't reading to well, did you notice my comments?

As we can see our Government along with our Universities are already exploiting this tiny 3rd World Country.

What do you think I am thinking by posting this? I would say I have got to be showing how $25 million is opening the pickle jar. I follow with a link that shows what they intend to exploit.

I state that banks and wall st. will make billions, hardly am I defending. Faulty logic would be to ignore where the true money is being made, I guess you should read what I said, and take it a bit further, and show how Wall St. people work in the Government, get appointed to stuff like secretary of treasure, how they open the door to 3rd World Countries with grants of millions, which then the leaders of the 3rd World are beholden to repay, buy allowing the development of the country.

Yes focus on $25 million, and look no further, do not see how that is simply opening the door, by our government, to allow the IMF, the World Bank, and Wall st. to dump billions in loans, guaranteed by us the tax payers.

$25 millions is peanuts, but as we can see our universities are busy researching where Solar Farms can be constructed, where Wind Turbines can be installed, and $25 millions is a small bribe, to open the door to $100 billion in loans.

Help me out here, and think a little beyond what you see in front of you.
 
A $25 million U.S.-funded project to help Guatemala combat global warming is being slammed as another taxpayer-backed boondoggle after a new audit highlighted a series of problems -- including numerous inaccuracies in the group's work and a failure to produce a required long-term plan.

Without the plan, the government audit warned, "the funds ... could be wasted."

The grant for the Climate, Nature and Communities in Guatemala Program was awarded to the nonprofit Rainforest Alliance in February 2013 by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) as part of a broader effort to fight climate change abroad.

USAID’s Office of Inspector General, which issued the audit last month, said the program was set up to help organizations and small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Guatemala improve climate-change strategies and strengthen local NGOs so the country’s environment could be conserved without future U.S. assistance. The report noted that as of February 2015, $10.5 million had been disbursed so far.

The audit acknowledged the program was making “some progress,” but it also alleged a laundry list of violations -- including that the reported results were not accurate.

The watchdog reported that data-testing revealed 22 errors in the accounting of whether the program was on track.
Actually there is a plan, it was submitted to Paris ahead of schedule, I have given links, facts, and translated the agreement that was submitted, at least a portion of it.

Kind of a poor article considering there is very much a plan in place, with IMF backing as well as World Bank backing. I did not include the World Bank links, which as you can see, I could.
 
Could you at least PRETEND to read the post? Did you follow the "audit" link

Obviuoisly yes, since that's what demonstrated how you lied. Ho-hum. Another day, another denier fraud busted.

If you're not lying, simply show us the sentence that said $25 million was wasted, as you're strongly implying. That would be quite a trick, since only $10.5 million had been spent, and since the audit was pointing to documentation problems, not money wasted.

However, if you are lying, just keep on crying at me, and everyone will understand what that means.
 
Could you at least PRETEND to read the post? Did you follow the "audit" link

Obviuoisly yes, since that's what demonstrated how you lied. Ho-hum. Another day, another denier fraud busted.

If you're not lying, simply show us the sentence that said $25 million was wasted, as you're strongly implying. That would be quite a trick, since only $10.5 million had been spent, and since the audit was pointing to documentation problems, not money wasted.

However, if you are lying, just keep on crying at me, and everyone will understand what that means.
, simply show us the sentence that said $25 million was wasted,


well why don't you post up the sentence that that statement was ever made?
 

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