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By: The Minority Report Blog » Obama’s Solyndra a Remake of a Deval Evergreen Production

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 01:02:26 +0000

[...] last, it was only 19 months later that Evergreen announced that they were creating new jobs…In China: Evergreen Solar is shifting some of its production, currently done at a plant in Devens, to China [...]

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Sun, 04 Sep 2011 18:02:34 +0000

By: Obama’s Solyndra a remake of a Deval Evergreen production

Obama’s Solyndra a remake of a Deval Evergreen production — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 18:01:49 +0000

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:50:00 +0000

This is corporate fraud, plan and simple. These guys took advantage of a well intended program…took our tax dollars, paid themselves big bonuses while losing 54 million dollars…the state should go after these crooks

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:11:00 +0000

How about some hefty tarrifs on the imported chinese products. If it costs “x” dollars to make and sell a panel in the us…a comparable imported panel should cosst at least “x” + 20%

By: SP

SP — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:05:59 +0000

This story doesn’t surprise me in the least seeing as the leader of this company is Rick Feldt. Mr Feldt is nothing more than a self centered pompous ass who has driven more than one company into the ground all the while boosting his own worth. When Mr Feldt was at AT Cross in Rhode Island he single handedly turned a once proud company into just another “made in China” entity all the while collecting a nice fat paycheck. This is one evil person who should never be allowed to run another company into the ground.

By: Norm Levesque

Norm Levesque — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:55:06 +0000

Yes, their production equipment should be siezed and they should pay back the corporate welfare money given to them by the state (suckers). Take the money to help pay unemployment benefits and health care expenses of the displaced workers. The excess can go into job training.
By the way, I worked with a Philippino man who said that in his country people try their best to buy US goods, not China, India, Mexico, etc… because of the poor quality of the overseas rip-offs. It’s our own fault here though, we let the greedy American companies move their operations overseas so they could make their stuff cheap then sell it back to us for $$$$$$$. And now we’re actually PAYING THEM SUBSIDIES to do it!

By: Norm Eddy

Norm Eddy — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:08:40 +0000

I think it is time to start embezzlement charges against the c e o .He knew he was going to do that from day one!
Ask the Lenaire Builders about Chinese products-3000 homes had to be sheetrocked because of inferior drywall so just wait he’ll fall on his face

By: EG Worker

EG Worker — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:46:44 +0000

I have been working at Evergreen for the last two years. We busted our butt to get this factory up and running and believe me, no one is happy about the situation. We had expected the price of panels to be $2.50 a watt in 2014, not 2009. Chinese manufacturers are literally selling their panels at or below cost. We have been driving down costs but no matter how fast we cut costs, the price kept dropping faster. No one can make money when the market is like that. So, the choice is to find ways to cut manufacturing costs or close up shop. We had already taken a 10% paycut in order to avoid lay offs.

Not all jobs are leaving Devens – we will still make wafers and cells and should demand pick up, the panel line will re-open.

Whether Evergreen makes it or not, the question we should be asking ourselves is – do we as a country want to be a player in the green energy market? I joined this company because I thought the US would be a player. It seems I was mistaken in that assumption.

We continue to subsidize big oil and big coal with massive tax breaks (not to mention the military cost of keeping oil flowing from the middle east) and the unconsidered costs of environmental degredation and health issues those industries cause on a routine basis that they do not consider at all in their pricing structure.

Until the fossil fuel industry has to play by the same rules the rest of us do, I have grave douts that any green energy company will be able to make a go of it on U.S. shores.

By: Lorreen

Lorreen — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:25:31 +0000

I’m disgusted. I agree that Evergreen should reimburse the State of MA. Until we start to create a level playing field in terms of workers rights we will continue to see the American Economy decline. Not everyone is ready or able to attend university to assume high tech jobs. China already owns so much of USA debt I guess they may as well own Evergreen Solar.

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:11:58 +0000

How many people have gone to China and seen what our money has bought them?

Everything is new in the big cities. The roads, the buildings, the airports, the trains, the stores, the cars. Everything.

Buy MADE IN THE USA. If you don’t start demanding it America you are going to find this country in 3rd world status within a decade.

When I come back to America from Asia or Europe I can’t believe the condition of the infrastructure. 3rd world for sure.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:08:58 +0000

I say we ship all executive management jobs overseas to save money. We are told that Asia and India are all better educated, higher IQ’s and work for a fraction of what it costs here in the US. We gave the working class jobs away already I think it’s time for them to share in our pain as well. Just imagine a single CEO savings in the tens of millions saved annually to just one company. How many workers jobs would that save?

By: Chris M

Chris M — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:36:35 +0000

@ Online Guitar Tuition
Worst polluters? China has a much bigger population which you need to take into account. If you look at emissions per capita USA is a much bigger polluter.

By: Adam O.

Adam O. — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:23:29 +0000

I’m pretty sure that the only jobs that will be leaving will be the panel assembly jobs.

Nanosolar also divides its production into cell production and panel assembly. Nanosolar has their panel assembly done in Germany, at a fully robotic facility. Evergreen’s using inexpensive human labor to do the same. In either case, panel assembly is just basic manufacturing, you might as well be fabricating vinyl windows.

I would doubt very much that either company would relocate its cell/wafer fabrication to China, too many secrets to protect.

Same goes with biotech and pharma. The secrets stay here.

By: Hemfna

Hemfna — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:18:02 +0000

It’s only fair since China basically owns the US now.

By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:07:05 +0000

The new Asian reality strikes again! Yankee Doodle, from the factory floor up to the top of the company cannot do the job! Poor schooling, poor health care, poor attitudes, drug addiction alcoholism, sexual misbehavior, gluttony, greed, “Entitlement” notions, fancy full “American Dream” notions, and owning a motor car that drinks gasoline, all get in his way, add to his cost, distort investments away from process to focus on him, not product. He dishonestly manipulates the situation into massive corporate health care schemes, union situations, building of ‘burbs nearby filled with non-survivable McMansions, molls and theaters, and forgets good schooling and a disciplined, chaste, clean, and economic survival style life altogether! He eats enough meat in a day for six Asians to survive on for a week, has no cheaper veggies in his diet to speak of, and wants a foot ball star for a son, not a scientist, engineer or mathematician, his whole society based around sports star stud adorations even gives preferential breeding rights to the bigger bodied, physically stronger over the intellectually developed individual even at the high school level, and then he sits in wonderment and amazement as the most recent Scientific developments come from Asia or Asians he imports to show the way in his upper schools! This great dumbing down must stop to change the flow of jobs in a technological age, grow towards a society that champions intellectual over physical performance as does Asia. India a prime example, nation of primarily low upkeep vegans, play “Cricket” like the Brits of older times, and produce more good “Engineers to the world” than U.S.A. ever has! The next world war is not being fought by great healthy hulking infantrymen on foot in the dust in WWII battle field fashion! Why does Yankee Doodle Dandy prepare so diligently for that? The new battlefield is economic, with better factories, higher efficiencies in manufacturing, intensive use of computer controlled computer directed hydraulics, electromechanics and intelligent design for streamlined products to fit the new paradigm, and American “Armstrong” factories and industries die by the way-side, having been robbed of development money for immediate ROI at home, with no investments in future developments. Howcum? Which great regulations failed the “Sports Star” and “Financial Manipulators” notions in America? How can we keep new industries at home? What changes do we have to make or die, to meet the new world standards, the new world marketplace after the Asian fact? Has Asia really beaten us on the new battlefield of the post “mutual Destruction” nuclear age? Have we outgrown the modern paradigm in our demands? Are Americans an anomalous misfit in the modern technological age, and unsustainable at any rate? Americans failed here, by American accountancies own admission. Why? This we need to know for our basic survival!

By: Online Guitar Tuition

Online Guitar Tuition — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:15:20 +0000

hmm nothing like losing Green jobs to the worst polluters on earth.

not sure whether to laugh or cry.

By: martingl

martingl — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:26:37 +0000

Since the overpaid CEO and other management at ESLR is giving our American jobs to China, let’s also send all American politicians to China too..for being traitors to our country.

The idiot politicians of MA could have given ESLR some form of tax incentives to stay.

The only thing that the corrupt and overpaid Feldt is good at is losing and wasting money and stealing from the shareholders.

By: Tom Jones

Tom Jones — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:52:49 +0000

And we keep on taxing and regulating. I thought we were smart.

By: Effie Stewart

Effie Stewart — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:49:15 +0000

58 million dollars given to a company with limited conditions attached which would protect jobs here in Massachusetts?????????? It would appear that Deval Patrick just gave yet another big Holiday present to any challenger in the next race for Governor.
( Just out of curiosity, do we know what the saleries are of the CEO and other officers of the company? )