Posted on 02/14/2025 5:34:10 AM PST by CFW
There is considerable buzz in Washington about the disclosures of Administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Lee Zeldin on controversial grants by the Biden Administration, including the $50 million environmental justice grant to an organization that believes “climate justice travels through a Free Palestine.” However, one item was particularly notable: $160 million to a Canadian electric bus manufacturer which later announced bankruptcy without fulfilling the contract.
Both the Obama and Biden Administration wasted billions in loans and grants on green initiatives including the failed solar-panel company Solyndra and most recently the termination of the Ivanpah Solar Power Plant.
These projects often start with photo ops and virtue signaling that costs taxpayers billions in losses. What is missing is a modicum of economic and administrative judgment.
The Canadian electric bus company Lion Electric is such an example. Figures like Vice President Kamala Harris did repeated photo ops with electric buses as a defining issue. However, the company struggled from the start and the Biden Administration failed to take the most basic steps to protect taxpayer money. Rather than break up payments in segments based on actual production, Biden officials just sent the $160 million to the company.
The company is now shutting down without supplying $95 million in bus orders. The money is gone. Poof! and the company could vanish with the “Lion’s share” of U.S. public funds.
(Excerpt) Read more at jonathanturley.org ...
By the way, the bureaucracy has been stealing us blind for decades but doubled and tripled down after installing the senile Biden in the White House!
"Both the Obama and Biden Administration wasted billions in loans and grants on green initiatives...."For a good cause? Nope. For kickbacks, as we watch the bankruptcies surrounding Solyndra and a hundred more, all "touted" as the future. All bankrupt. This is proving true in Europe as well. Grift, by narrative.
The Climate Change /Global Warming scam is nothing more than a money-laundering front for Democrats and RINOs. Ignorant, uneducated people believe in it because they are conditioned to believe everything their governments tell them to believe. ........
bttt
Green New Deal was all a scam to move money to favored people.
In a normal situation...there would be a bid-process, and you’d have a schedule...get x-amount on day one, and as each bus arrives...another check.
I’d argue from day one...this was an arranged transfer of money and no intention of ever achieving success. I’d sue the CEO, and personally go after his wealth.
How about some Enron style lawsuits for the beneficiaries?
Here in Santa Cruz California the local transit agency bought 8 Proterra electric buses. Proterra went bankrupt and the buses are parked. Goodbye $10 million.
How much went to the bureaucrats?
Where is the money that was supposed to build all those EV charging stations?
But But But Kamala loves electric school buses so let’s try doing this again.
Same thing with Ithaca NY, the frames busted and each $million dollar bus is permanently parked.
Now we know where the DIMs got all the money for their campaigns and other nefarious BS. So many corrupt, integrity free criminals!!!
Yep, someone with connections is living La Vida Loca courtesy of the American taxpayers. That’s what all this is about and why so many are screaming. Not only are their friends and families going to have to get real jobs, but they don’t want their constituents to know they were getting their cut off the top. I’m guessing there was no gender equity program in Albania, but that money went somewhere.
This is just more of the same technique to launder money. “Green Initiatives” that Obama gave out during his administration to companies that went bankrupt in less than a year after receiving millions of dollars was quite obvious that they were scams.
“The Climate Change /Global Warming scam is nothing more than a money-laundering front for Democrats and RINOs.”
I agree. This has been nothing more than a hoax.
>>>Full Charge: EPA Sent $160 Million to Now Bankrupt Canadian Electric Bus Company
Where is Justin Trudeau?
Those who had the power to issue these grants and follow through with them need to be prosecuted.
With all that we know being the tip of the iceburg we are coming to the point where we want justice, no more! Examples need to be made
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