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Another Solar Company Can't Take The Heat, Closes Despite $10 Million In Stimulus
cns news ^ | 4/8/13 | Joe Schoffstall

Posted on 04/08/2013 3:32:59 PM PDT by Nachum

A Pittsburgh, Pa. solar energy company has shut its doors four years after receiving nearly $10.2 million in tax credits from the Obama Administration as part of the as part of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act.

Flabeg Solar U.S. Corp., a $30 million solar plant located near the Pittsburgh International Airport, opened its doors in 2009 and was said to provide 300 jobs. Now, just four years later, the plant has shut down and laid off more than 60 workers. In addition to this, 10 of its former employees have petitioned a federal judge for severance pay after they lost their jobs last month, according to PA Independent.

Robert Lampl, the attorney for Flabeg, said the company would probably seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from the workers who are suing over their severance pay.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; solar; stimulus
Obama and Agenda 21
1 posted on 04/08/2013 3:32:59 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/


2 posted on 04/08/2013 3:33:28 PM PDT by Nachum (The Obama "List" at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

!)M.

That’s a lot of white house tours that will never be conducted.


3 posted on 04/08/2013 3:36:45 PM PDT by NoLibZone (A nation's electoral process is as free and fair as its press.)
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To: NoLibZone

They were used to launder money to King Obama.


4 posted on 04/08/2013 3:38:57 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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To: Nachum

Well if he had asked for 100 million, he would still be in business! At least for a while longer.. What kind of dolt does not ask for 20 times what they thing that they need from the Government?


5 posted on 04/08/2013 3:39:29 PM PDT by Deagle (quo)
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To: Nachum

Another money laundering operation.


6 posted on 04/08/2013 3:39:41 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Nachum

Obummer can take his solar companies
and shove `em where the sun don`t shine!


7 posted on 04/08/2013 3:43:47 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 ("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.)
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To: Nachum

They supposedly had 300 employes yet when they close the plant,only sixty are laid off?


8 posted on 04/08/2013 4:18:19 PM PDT by Lx (Do you like it, do you like it. Scott? I call it Mr. and Mrs. Tennerman chili.)
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To: Nachum

Someone, Someplace is keeping a list I hope.


9 posted on 04/08/2013 4:57:48 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: bunkerhill7

Fleabag Solar?


10 posted on 04/08/2013 5:00:15 PM PDT by beelzepug (Telling other people they need to die is a good way to get your own lamp blown out.)
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To: TexasCajun

Someone, Someplace is keeping a list I hope.

++++++++++++++++++++++++

A list of all the cronies and payola committed by this kleptocracy


11 posted on 04/08/2013 5:10:26 PM PDT by Chickensoup (200 million unarmed " people killed in the 20th century by Leftist Totalitarian Fascists)
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To: TexasCajun

‘Someone, Someplace is keeping a list I hope.’

Like this?

http://www.nachumlist.com/agenda21.htm


12 posted on 04/08/2013 5:29:16 PM PDT by Nachum (The Obama "List" at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

bump


13 posted on 04/08/2013 5:37:22 PM PDT by lowbridge (Joe Biden: "Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy.")
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To: Nachum
I just looked up this company. It's a German company that goes back to 1882. It opened up a USA plant in 2009 and gets $10 million in TARP money for "American" reinvestment?

-PJ

14 posted on 04/08/2013 5:45:20 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Nachum

This is how communism works. All the Party members and friends get all the money.

Pray for America to wake up


15 posted on 04/08/2013 6:46:02 PM PDT by bray (Surviving to spite Obama)
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