Albert

PS: not only was my job on the line, the “stink” of this project never allowed it to make the first cut, for a host of reasons such as lack of collateral assets, alternative best/worst case and headcount budget projections, hazy market forecasts, etc. And Don Carcieri’s VP-Treasurer would have had the same objections, to save HIS job.

You may also have been told that if you did the project, your job would be on the line. To protect that job, you would have done a basic project management timeline and watched every due date knowing your job was on the line.

Having some knowledge of how the EDC is currently managing the renewable energy projects (see my post above), I can tell you that nobody at the EDC believes their job is on the line.

The 2010 EBEC Phase III study that was funded by the EDC and never completed, you can bet nobody will be held accountable for that mess.

Sad…and eminiently avoidable.

This is small change compared to what is about to happen in RI concerning the “Renewable Energy” taxpayer funded initiatives at the EDC.

There is a line item on everyone’s electric bill (the renewable energy charge) that goes directly to an EDC slush fund, and the GA has plans to increase that line item to create a bigger EDC slush fund.

There is a consortium called the East Bay Energy Consortium who was provided one grant in 2010 for the purpose of doing a Phase III study on wind energy in RI.

In 2011, the EBEC Board voted to allow just two sitting Board members full authority to approve the spending from that grant. Instead of doing the Phase III study, they started to pay ex 38 Studio lawyers and lobbyists. The Phase III study has not been completed.

The GA has it in mind to keep increasing this Renewable Energy Charge on your electric bill in order to pass the money to the EDC and it’s cronies.

38 Studio’s was a one time hit. This renewable scam will go on forever.