Obama-backed Israeli solar project flounders in California
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In fact, as I also reported, BrightSource is an Israeli-based company, ... for the rights of Native Americans on whose ancestral lands it is built.
BrightSource will be building its 370-megawatt power plant in California’s Mojave Desert, and it has already faced objections and protests from 8 environmental groups and several Native American tribes, due to the threat it poses to the endangered desert tortoise and many rare native plants (26). Representatives from the Colorado River Indian Tribe and the Mojave Indian Tribe have said that BrightSource threatens their tribal heritage, their homes, their religious freedom as the plant will be built directly on top of their places of worship, and the habitat of several federally-protected (and tribally-sacred) animals including bighorn sheep, mountain lions, snakes and hawks (27).- Jonathan Azaziah,2010
Obama says: “The largest such plant in the world is not in China, not in India, but in California. With projects like this one we are staking our claim in the new global economy… that will protect our planet for future generations.” - See more at: http://www.greenprophet.com/2010/10/obama-brightsource-solar-energy/#sthash.WUuPciIJ.dpuf
Obama says: “The largest such plant in the world is not in China, not in India, but in California. With projects like this one we are staking our claim in the new global economy… that will protect our planet for future generations.”
Obama says: “The largest such plant in the world is not in China, not in India, but in California. With projects like this one we are staking our claim in the new global economy… that will protect our planet for future generations.” - See more at: http://www.greenprophet.com/2010/10/obama-brightsource-solar-energy/#sthash.WUuPciIJ.dpuf
Israeli company with a US address
In fact, as I also reported, BrightSource is an Israeli-based company, although it moved its official headquarters to Oakland, California.BrightSource founder Arnold Goldman was born in the United States and settled in present-day Israel decades ago where he received a “Builder of Jerusalem Award” from the extreme Zionist and pro-settlement organization Aish HaTorah.
He is a member of the international board of governors of the Jerusalem College of Technology (JCT) which bills itself as “Vital to the State of Israel & the IDF.”
Despite being an “American” firm, as recently as last year, 300 of BrightSource’s 400 employees were “engineers and development staff working mainly in Jerusalem, where its international R&D happens.”
The US jobs Obama announced, were, by contrast, temporary construction work.
Yet with an American address, BrightSource became eligible for more than one billion dollars in loan guarantees from the Obama administration.
“With over $1 b. in US government loans, Israel’s BrightSource will build the world’s largest solar energy project in California,” the website Israel21c reported in 2010.
Obama also promoted the Israeli firm at a time when BrightSource was about to float itself on the stock exchange. But the IPO was canceled just hours before the stock was supposed to start trading.
In a 2012 commentary for KCET public radio, environmental author Chris Clarke explained why investors balked: BrightSource’s “core technology is antiquated – hundreds of mirrors focusing light and heat on a boiler, the chief concession to modernity being computers helping the mirrors track the sun.”-Ali Abunimah
Obama says: “The largest such plant in the world is not in China, not in India, but in California. With projects like this one we are staking our claim in the new global economy… that will protect our planet for future generations.” - See more at: http://www.greenprophet.com/2010/10/obama-brightsource-solar-energy/#sthash.WUuPciIJ.dpuf
Obama says: “The largest such plant in the world is not in China, not in India, but in California. With projects like this one we are staking our claim in the new global economy… that will protect our planet for future generations.” - See more at: http://www.greenprophet.com/2010/10/obama-brightsource-solar-energy/#sthash.WUuPciIJ.dpuf
Obama says: “The largest such plant in the world is not in China, not in India, but in California. With projects like this one we are staking our claim in the new global economy… that will protect our planet for future generations.” - See more at: http://www.greenprophet.com/2010/10/obama-brightsource-solar-energy/#sthash.WUuPciIJ.dpuf
Obama says: “The largest such plant in the world is not in China, not in India, but in California. With projects like this one we are staking our claim in the new global economy… that will protect our planet for future generations.” - See more at: http://www.greenprophet.com/2010/10/obama-brightsource-solar-energy/#sthash.WUuPciIJ.dpuf
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Bye-bye birdies. The world’s largest solar power plant that recently opened in the Mojave Desert has a gruesome effect: birds are getting fried to death when they fly near its towers.
8 Cray Cray Ways to Harness Solar Energy
The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System officially opened last week, a $2.2 billion solar farm containing about 350,000 mirrors, each the size of a garage door. Those mirrors are aimed at three 40-story-tall towers. The concentrated sunlight boils water in the towers, which in turn generates steam that drives special turbines.
For birds, the towers are more like the Eye of Sauron. During test runs at the plant over the past several months, workers discovered dozens of dead birds, the Wall Street Journal’s Cassandra Sweet reported. “The dead birds included a peregrine falcon, a grebe, two hawks, four nighthawks and a variety of warblers and sparrows.” They appeared to have been scorched. Hat tip Gizmodo (warning: dead bird photos).
This system has the capacity to generate 392 megawatts — enough to power 140,000 homes annually, according to developer BrightSource Energy. Plans are in the works to build another plant near Joshua Tree, but biologists warned regulators that it could kill golden eagles and other protected birds, the WSJ reported.
So far the only plan to address the problem is a two-year study.
Ivanpah’s solar concentration system must have seemed competitive before construction began in 2010. But the new plant is already being called irrelevant. Business Insider’s Rob Wile noted that the new Antelope Valley Solar Ranch photovoltaic array will generate 1.5-times as much power as Ivanpah. Without the steam.
Flying Power Plant Would Suck Energy From Sky
I don’t think Ivanpah can be abandoned — it’s far too late for that — but there has to be a way to keep birds away. It’s also time to rethink new solar concentrator plans. By focusing on photovoltaic arrays instead, which have become cheaper over time, everyone is less likely to get burned.
Photo: The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System begins “steam blows” in April 2013. Credit: BrightSource Energy.
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Last week, The New York Times reported on the opening of a massive solar power plant on public land at Ivanpah, in California’s Mojave Desert.
What the Times did not say is that the company that established the solar plant, BrightSource Energy (with co-investors NRG Energy and Google), has been touted as one of Israel’s supposed high-tech exports.
The Times story is nevertheless rather somber. The power plant has opened under a shadow: despite the huge cost – subsidized by the US government – the project could be the last of its kind as “the price of rival technologies has plummeted, incentives have begun to disappear and the appetite among investors for mammoth solar farms has waned.”
BrightSource founder Arnold Goldman was born in the United States and settled in present-day Israel decades ago where he received a “Builder of Jerusalem Award” from the extreme Zionist and pro-settlement organization Aish HaTorah.
He is a member of the international board of governors of the Jerusalem College of Technology (JCT) which bills itself as “Vital to the State of Israel & the IDF.”
Despite being an “American” firm, as recently as last year, 300 of BrightSource’s 400 employees were “engineers and development staff working mainly in Jerusalem, where its international R&D happens.”
The US jobs Obama announced, were, by contrast, temporary construction work.
Yet with an American address, BrightSource became eligible for more than one billion dollars in loan guarantees from the Obama administration.
“With over $1 b. in US government loans, Israel’s BrightSource will build the world’s largest solar energy project in California,” the website Israel21c reported in 2010.
Obama also promoted the Israeli firm at a time when BrightSource was about to float itself on the stock exchange. But the IPO was canceled just hours before the stock was supposed to start trading.
Systems like the one at Ivanpah – called “concentrating solar power” – require huge areas of land and large sources of water to keep the mirrors clean and operate the turbines, an unsustainable concept in parched desert areas.
BrightSource’s Ivanpah plant is one of a number that has been challenged in lawsuits by a number of environmental, labor and American Indian groups alleging that the Obama administration disregarded environmental regulations in order to speed through the projects located “in fragile landscapes and … home to desert tortoises, bighorn sheep and other protected flora and fauna.”
Another BrightSource project, at Rio Mesa, California, collapsed last year after the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) rejected an application for the plant to supply power to the utility Southern California Edison.
CPUC ruled that the terms offered by BrightSource “compare poorly on price and value relative to other solar thermal projects offered to” Edison.
Also, as Clarke points out, Rio Mesa would have occupied 4,000 acres of pristine desert and obstacles “arose almost from its inception, including the discovery of a world-class Ice Age fossil deposit, concerns over the effect of the project’s concentrated ‘solar flux’ on birds and other wildlife, and conflict with local Native people.”
As energy analyst Matthew Feinstein tells the Times, companies supplying the mirror-and-steam systems “have questionable futures.”
“There’s other prospects for renewables and for solar that look a lot better than this particular solution,” Feinstein says, “including rooftop solar systems that are being installed one by one on businesses and homes.”
Another firm I discuss in the book is the Israeli electric car company Better Place, also heavily promoted around the world as a green pioneer. Better Place, a settlement profiteer with a war criminal as the CEO of its Israeli operation, collapsed last year after it sold only a few hundred cars.
The New York Times story suggests that Israel’s BrightSource, without Obama administration subsidies and boosterism, could be heading the same way.
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by Jonathan Azaziah
Just when it seemed that war criminal Barack Obama had reached the zenith of subservience to the Zionist entity, he takes his sycophancy to the next level. Obama has already signed a deal with Israel that granted it $30 billion in military aid alone over the next decade (1), and he has proudly declared that his administration has given more security assistance to the Zionist entity than any other administration in history (2). He has restored Israel’s ‘Qualitative Military Edge,’ which is an Orwellian phrase that translates to the US providing Israel with weapons, munitions, vehicles and other technologies to uphold the genocidal occupation of Palestine (3). He has gladly granted Israel $205 million for its Iron Dome missile defense system, which coincidentally, doesn’t work (4). He supports the internationally condemned, criminal, and inhumane blockade of Gaza (5).
Despite the courageous efforts of Mordechai Vanunu that exposed Israel’s secret nuclear program to the world (6), Obama refuses to acknowledge Zionist nukes and has promised to maintain ambiguity about the illegal nature of the program, as well as defend Israel’s refusal to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (7). He has increased American-Israeli military cooperation through joint training exercises, most notably Operation Juniper Cobra, which was designed to provoke Iran (8). All of Obama’s high-ranking intelligence officials have traveled to the usurping Zionist regime to discuss US-Israeli collaborative plans for the future of the Middle East (9). Obama has prepared to provide the Zionist air force with the F-35, the latest Lockheed Martin fighter jet equipped with stealth technology; and has even gone a step further to appease his close friends in Tel Aviv by offering $4 billion to Israeli defense contractors to supply parts for the F-35 (10).
Made In Israel
But these impassioned displays of solidarity with the barbaric Israeli entity weren’t enough. In his most recent public address, Obama decided to present Israel with yet another gift though he didn’t admit it openly. His speech was centered around ‘clean energy’ policies and their grave importance to the new global economy. He trashed India, the occupier of Kashmir, as well as China, and boasted that the world’s largest solar energy plant was located in the US, in the state of California. The plant was operated by a firm named BrightSource (11). Obama authorized the Department of Energy to issue a loan to BrightSource worth $1.37 billion (12). Despite Obama’s nationalistic rhetoric to galvanize environmentalists and his Democratic base, the plant wasn’t Californian. It wasn’t even American. BrightSource is a company founded by a Zionist, operated by Israelis, and based out of occupied lands in Jerusalem and Al Naqab (13).
BrightSource’s founder and chairman emeritus is Arnold J. Goldman, a staunch Zionist who was honored with the ‘Builder of Jerusalem’ award (14) by Aish HaTorah, a radical Zionist organization that operates rabbinical schools for Israeli occupation forces, spreads pro-Israel propaganda through its Hasbara Fellowship programs, and supports the building of illegal Zionist settlements (15). Goldman describes himself as a ‘serious’ Kabbalist (16), a student of ‘Jewish’ mysticism that is deeply rooted in racism and xenophobia (17), and he also is one of the founding members of the International Board of Governors of the Jerusalem College of Technology, which produces advisors for the Israeli Defense Ministry, trains vehicle and aircraft mechanics for IOF, and prepares students to enter the Israeli Communications Corps and Intelligence Corps (18).
The chief operating officer of BrightSource is Israel Kroizer, who also heads Israel Cleantech Ventures, a company that according to its website, receives research and development support from Israeli governmental entities. BrightSource’s vice presidents, Yoel Gilon, Jose Barak, Gabriel Kaufman, and Shmuel Huss all worked for Arnold Goldman at his previous company Luz International Ltd., which had constructed the world’s largest Solar Electric Generating Systems with the full backing of the Tel Aviv regime in occupied Al Naqab (19).
An Initiative Covered In Oil and Blood
Obama has touted BrightSource as a part of his clean energy initiative, but there is nothing clean or environmentally safe about the Zionist firm, especially its investors. BrightSource has raised $160 million in operating capital through several energy companies, including BP and Chevron (20). BP, as it is widely known, is responsible for the gulf oil disaster, which has been fully covered up by Obama’s administration (21). Obama has assigned Zionist asset Kenneth Feinberg to ensure minimal liability for BP and lobby aggressively for victims of the oil spill to take out-of-court settlements, eliminating government culpability (22). In a recent study conducted by the Center for Public Integrity, BP has been discovered to have produced 97% of the refinery violations in the US (23). Chevron is responsible for an even more devastating disaster in the Ecuadorian Amazon, where the corporate entity has dumped 37 million gallons of crude oil and wastewater between 1964 and 1990 (24). Chevron is also complicit in the atrocities being committed in Nigeria and has directly contributed to the ungodly oil spill that has ravaged the African nation for a disgraceful 50 years (25).
BrightSource will be building its 370-megawatt power plant in California’s Mojave Desert, and it has already faced objections and protests from 8 environmental groups and several Native American tribes, due to the threat it poses to the endangered desert tortoise and many rare native plants (26). Representatives from the Colorado River Indian Tribe and the Mojave Indian Tribe have said that BrightSource threatens their tribal heritage, their homes, their religious freedom as the plant will be built directly on top of their places of worship, and the habitat of several federally-protected (and tribally-sacred) animals including bighorn sheep, mountain lions, snakes and hawks (27).
In 2008, BrightSource launched the Negev Solar Development Center at the Rotem Industrial Park, near the Zionist entity’s illegal nuclear facility in Dimona (28). It is Dimona, where Israeli nuclear scientists and intelligence officials dump nuclear waste which has created an atmosphere of cancer and other radiation-related diseases in the southern regions of occupied Al Khalil and Al Naqab. While the Tel Aviv regime approved the distribution of iodine tablets to ‘protect’ people living near the Dimona reactor, it has never admitted to its illegal disposal of nuclear waste and materials. Palestinian physicians like Mahmoud Sa’ada, the co-founder of Palestinian Medical Relief, have determined that there is no plausible cause for the growing cancers and mutations in Al Naqab and Al Khalil except Israeli radioactivity (29).
Israel has engaged in a malicious campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian Bedouins of Al Naqab since Al Nakbah of 1948, and has stepped up its racist, destructive policies considerably since the summer of this year, destroying one village, Al Araqib, four times in less than a month (30). To offset the increased coverage on international solidarity activism efforts to end the razing of homes in Al Naqab, and to cover up its horrific crimes of ethnic cleansing, the Israeli government approved a deal between Arava Power Company, owned by Yosef Abramowitz, and collaborationist Bedouins of the Tarabin and Abu Karinath clans (31).
Abramowitz has served on the board of the ultra-Zionist World Jewish Congress (32), and lives on the Kibbutz Ketura, in occupied Umm Rashrash (Eilat), home to scores of illegal Zionist settlers turned environmental entrepreneurs (33). Arava and BrightSource work together very closely in Al Naqab to accommodate the Zionist entity’s solar energy needs (34). Obama’s generous administration wasn’t happy with providing just one Zionist energy company with a loan, so it has provided Arava with a massive loan as well, worth $300 million (35). It is important to note that the deal between Zionist corporation Arava and the collaborationist Bedouins hasn’t pulled the wool over anyone’s eyes; the ethnic cleansing in Al Naqab desert continues. The Zionist entity destroyed rebuilt homes in Al Araqib for a fifth time just two weeks ago (36), and Israeli bulldozers demolished four homes belonging to Palestinian Bedouin families in Khashim Zema on Monday, October 4th (37). The alliance between Obama, Tel Aviv, BrightSource, and Arava is a genocidal existential threat to indigenous peoples from occupied Palestine to California.
Conclusion
With bloodstained operating capital money and a billion dollar Obama loan fresh in hand, BrightSource is now moving forward with an IPO in 2011. The Zionist firm has hired none other than Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, two of the criminal banking institutions bailed out by Obama’s administration, to handle the initial public offering. Goldman Sachs was the largest contributor to Obama’s presidential campaign (38).
Distinguished scholar, author, and activist Ali Abunimah, who first broke the story about BrightSource (39), commented in his follow-up piece regarding the BrightSource scandal that "Obama did not say anything about a BrightSource IPO, but nevertheless his boosterism about the company in a presidential address clearly has market implications. Obama's intervention on behalf of BrightSource seems particularly odd and inappropriate. He touted it as an example of creating American jobs with American technological ingenuity, and specifically warned against allowing jobs and ‘competitive advantage’ to flow to India, China or other foreign countries. But as an example of supporting domestic clean energy industries, BrightSource is at best a dubious case. Many of the jobs will be created and stay in Israel, and the high-tech benefits and patents are also being developed in Israel (40)."
While Israeli cleantech companies have taken a major hit and are unable to secure venture capital due to the slow recovery in the ‘green’ sector, BrightSource, Avara, and another Obama-funded company, Ormat Technologies, are thriving. Obama has guaranteed Ormat $350 million in loans for three geothermal power plants in Nevada (41). Ormat is also building a 120 megawatt solar power plant in Ashalim, an illegal Zionist settlement in Al Naqab, populated with Israeli students and entrepreneurs strengthening their relations through the Ayalim Association, founded by a group of IOF veterans in 2002 (42). Ormat is owned by the ardent Zionist husband and wife team of Lucien and Yehudit Bronicki. Lucien serves as a member of the Executive Council of the Weizmann Institute of Science, which has several interdisciplinary programs closely tied to Israeli intelligence; he has received the Rothschild Award for Innovation, which is handed out by the Zionist entity’s president; and in 2005, he received honors from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, a key research center for Israel’s nuclear program (43).
The BrightSource scandal has emerged during the latest round of fraudulent peace talks, this time between mass murderer Benjamin Netanyahu and the treasonous collaborationist Abbas-Fayyad Palestinian ‘Authority.’ It is just one more example that the parties involved have no interest in securing peace in the region, only perpetuating the unrelenting and illegal Zionist occupation. Additionally, it is an excellent example of Barack Obama showing his true colors once again: Israeli blue and white. Obama was designed by Zionists from the inception of his political career, and from the moment he was selected as President, he has done nothing but kowtow to Tel Aviv’s every whim. He is not a friend of the Palestinian people; he is their enemy’s willing partner, and their blood will stain his hands for the remainder of his existence.
Peace talks will be considered legitimate when the US stops sending billions in military aid to Israel. When the torturous blockade against Gaza is lifted. When Israeli planes stop dropping bombs on the coastal sliver. When Zionist occupation forces stop shooting innocent men to death on their way home from work (44). When illegal settlements stop being built. When Israel stops detaining, assaulting, and murdering activists in international waters with impunity. When ethnic cleansing stops. When lemon trees and olive trees stop being uprooted. When Gaza fishermen stop being shot at and killed. When thousands of Palestinian prisoners, including young children, are released. When Palestinian women stop being raped. When Palestinians can travel to their places of worship without being harassed or beaten, or both, or worse. When the people choose their own governments and aren’t subjected to collaborationist marionette regimes. When every single Israeli bulldozer is destroyed. When Israel’s murderous politicians are prosecuted for crimes against humanity. And when Zionist companies complicit in several of the aforementioned crimes like BrightSource, Avara and Ormat stop receiving billions in taxpayer monies under the guise of federal loans.
Palestine will know peace when the Zionist entity is completely dismantled and its racist ideology is buried beneath its ashes. Once Zionism ends, the occupation will end, Palestine’s lands will be liberated and the right of return for its people will be implemented. A steadfast commitment to this discourse, along with the dignified Resistance of Palestine’s magnificent people, and the BDS efforts of activists from all over the world, can make the Zionist regime’s demise a hastened reality. Any other option is co-opted by the occupier. And anyone adhering to such a crooked path, is dwelling in the realm of delusion.
~ The End ~
Sources:
(1) Israel To Get $30 Billion In Military Aid From U.S. by Steven Erlanger, The New York Times
(2) Interview Of The President by Yonit Levi, Israeli TV
(3) U.S.-Israeli Arms Cooperation Quietly Growing by Nathan Guttman, The Jewish Daily Forward
(4) Iron Dome May Not Be As Effective As IDF Thinks by Yossi Melman, Haaretz
(5) Obama Endorses Gaza Siege by Press TV
(6) The Woman From Mossad: The Story Of Mordechai Vanunu and the Israeli Nuclear Program by Peter Hounam
(7) The State Of U.S. - Israel Relations July 6, 2010 by National Jewish Democratic Council
(8) The Obama Administration’s Approach To U.S.-Israel Security Cooperation: Preserving Israel’s Qualitative Military Edge by Andrew J. Shapiro
(9) US-Israel Cooperation Continues At The Highest Levels by David Streeter
(10) US Arms ‘Bonanza’ In Middle East by Jonathan Cook
(11) Obama Touts Israeli-Developed Solar Company BrightSource by Karin Kloosterman
(12) BrightSource Gets A Billion by Karin Kloosterman
(13) Meet BrightSource’s Arnold Goldman by Green Prophet Staff
(14) Guma Aguiar Honored As ‘Builder of Jerusalem’ By Aish HaTorah by Hana Levi Julian, Israel National News
(15) Rabbi Noah Weinberg, Founder of Aish HaTorah, Dies by Ben Harris, JTA
(16) Solar Power Pioneer, Arnold Goldman: How Our Electricity Can Become "Fuel For Life" by Jewish Climate Initiative
(17) Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight Of Three Thousand Years by Israel Shahak (rip)
(18) Haredim, Hi-Tech And The IDF by Judy Seigel Itzkovich, Jerusalem Post
(19) Solar Energy In Israel by Professor David Faiman, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
(20) Reclaiming His Place In The Sun by Eric A. Taub, The New York Times
(21) Censorship And Cover-Up In The Gulf Oil Disaster by Tom Eley
(22) From Agent Orange, To 9/11, To BP: Kenneth Feinberg Is Master Of Disaster by Sander Hicks
(23) Study: BP Refineries Produce 97% Of Violations by CBS News
(24) Chevron’s Terrestrial Oil Spill: Less Media, More Insidious Than The Gulf Slick by Starre Vartan
(25) Oil Companies Complicit In Nigerian Abuses by Human Rights Watch
(26) BrightSource Energy Gets OK For 370-Megawatt Solar Plant In Mojave Desert by Dana Hull, Mercury News
(27) American Indian Tribes Protest Proposed Solar Power Complex by Kenneth Artz
(28) BrightSource Energy Raises $150 Million Series D Financing by Jonathan Shapira
(29) Dimona’s Buried Nuclear Waste Spreads Cancer And Sterility In Southern Hebron And Negev by International Press Center
(30) Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing Of Palestinian Bedouin by Kim Bullimore
(31) Arava Power Company Signs Solar Deals With Negev Bedouins by Moshe Terdman
(32) Interview With Yosef Abramowitz, CEO Of Arava Power by Avner Warner
(33) Israel’s Kibbutzim Shift From Red To Green by David Wainer, Bloomberg News
(34) Green Business Double Book Review by Karin Kloosterman; Green Day For AJC by Sharon Udasin, The Jewish Week
(35) Arava Power Signs Land Deal With Bedouins To Build Solar Field by Ehud Zion Waldoks
(36) Israel Reportedly Razes Bedouin Village For Fifth Time by Ma’an News Agency
(37) Israel Razes Bedouin Homes In Negev by Press TV
(38) BrightSource Energy Quietly Moves Toward IPO In 2011 by Iris Kuo, Reuters; Goldman Sachs Was Top Obama Donor by Robert Yoon, CNN
(39) Obama Uses Weekly Address To Lobby For Israeli Firm BrightSource by Ali Abunimah
(40) Israel-Based Firm BrightSource That Obama Misleadingly Boosted Has Been ‘Quietly’ Planning For IPO by Ali Abunimah
(41) Global Investment Plummet Hits Israeli Cleantech Companies... Except BrightSource and Ormat by Lisa Damast
(42) Plant An Olive Tree In Israel by The Ayalim Association
(43) Lucien Bronicki: Executive Profile And Biography by Bloomberg Businessweek
(44) IOF Forces Shoot And Kill Another Palestinian Worker by The Palestinian Information Center
8 Cray Cray Ways to Harness Solar Energy
The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System officially opened last week, a $2.2 billion solar farm containing about 350,000 mirrors, each the size of a garage door. Those mirrors are aimed at three 40-story-tall towers. The concentrated sunlight boils water in the towers, which in turn generates steam that drives special turbines.
For birds, the towers are more like the Eye of Sauron. During test runs at the plant over the past several months, workers discovered dozens of dead birds, the Wall Street Journal’s Cassandra Sweet reported. “The dead birds included a peregrine falcon, a grebe, two hawks, four nighthawks and a variety of warblers and sparrows.” They appeared to have been scorched. Hat tip Gizmodo (warning: dead bird photos).
This system has the capacity to generate 392 megawatts — enough to power 140,000 homes annually, according to developer BrightSource Energy. Plans are in the works to build another plant near Joshua Tree, but biologists warned regulators that it could kill golden eagles and other protected birds, the WSJ reported.
So far the only plan to address the problem is a two-year study.
Ivanpah’s solar concentration system must have seemed competitive before construction began in 2010. But the new plant is already being called irrelevant. Business Insider’s Rob Wile noted that the new Antelope Valley Solar Ranch photovoltaic array will generate 1.5-times as much power as Ivanpah. Without the steam.
Flying Power Plant Would Suck Energy From Sky
I don’t think Ivanpah can be abandoned — it’s far too late for that — but there has to be a way to keep birds away. It’s also time to rethink new solar concentrator plans. By focusing on photovoltaic arrays instead, which have become cheaper over time, everyone is less likely to get burned.
Photo: The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System begins “steam blows” in April 2013. Credit: BrightSource Energy.
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Obama-backed Israeli solar project flounders in California
Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Tue, 02/18/2014 - 01:50
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Israeli-conceived solar plant at Ivanpah, California is based on
obsolete technology and has raised alarm about environmental harm. (Craig Dietrich)
What the Times did not say is that the company that established the solar plant, BrightSource Energy (with co-investors NRG Energy and Google), has been touted as one of Israel’s supposed high-tech exports.
The Times story is nevertheless rather somber. The power plant has opened under a shadow: despite the huge cost – subsidized by the US government – the project could be the last of its kind as “the price of rival technologies has plummeted, incentives have begun to disappear and the appetite among investors for mammoth solar farms has waned.”
Obama backing
As I reported in 2010, President Barack Obama used his weekly address to promote BrightSource, while misleadingly describing it as an example of American “ingenuity and can-do spirit”:With projects like this one, and others across this country, we are staking our claim to continued leadership in the new global economy. And we’re putting Americans to work producing clean, home-grown American energy that will help lower our reliance on foreign oil and protect our planet for future generations.
Israeli company with a US address
In fact, as I also reported, BrightSource is an Israeli-based company, although it moved its official headquarters to Oakland, California.BrightSource founder Arnold Goldman was born in the United States and settled in present-day Israel decades ago where he received a “Builder of Jerusalem Award” from the extreme Zionist and pro-settlement organization Aish HaTorah.
He is a member of the international board of governors of the Jerusalem College of Technology (JCT) which bills itself as “Vital to the State of Israel & the IDF.”
Despite being an “American” firm, as recently as last year, 300 of BrightSource’s 400 employees were “engineers and development staff working mainly in Jerusalem, where its international R&D happens.”
The US jobs Obama announced, were, by contrast, temporary construction work.
Yet with an American address, BrightSource became eligible for more than one billion dollars in loan guarantees from the Obama administration.
“With over $1 b. in US government loans, Israel’s BrightSource will build the world’s largest solar energy project in California,” the website Israel21c reported in 2010.
Obama also promoted the Israeli firm at a time when BrightSource was about to float itself on the stock exchange. But the IPO was canceled just hours before the stock was supposed to start trading.
Antiquated
In a 2012 commentary for KCET public radio, environmental author Chris Clarke explained why investors balked: BrightSource’s “core technology is antiquated – hundreds of mirrors focusing light and heat on a boiler, the chief concession to modernity being computers helping the mirrors track the sun.”Systems like the one at Ivanpah – called “concentrating solar power” – require huge areas of land and large sources of water to keep the mirrors clean and operate the turbines, an unsustainable concept in parched desert areas.
Lawsuits
The plant was also opposed for damage to the local ecology and wildlife and its disregard for the rights of Native Americans on whose ancestral lands it is built.BrightSource’s Ivanpah plant is one of a number that has been challenged in lawsuits by a number of environmental, labor and American Indian groups alleging that the Obama administration disregarded environmental regulations in order to speed through the projects located “in fragile landscapes and … home to desert tortoises, bighorn sheep and other protected flora and fauna.”
Another BrightSource project, at Rio Mesa, California, collapsed last year after the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) rejected an application for the plant to supply power to the utility Southern California Edison.
CPUC ruled that the terms offered by BrightSource “compare poorly on price and value relative to other solar thermal projects offered to” Edison.
Also, as Clarke points out, Rio Mesa would have occupied 4,000 acres of pristine desert and obstacles “arose almost from its inception, including the discovery of a world-class Ice Age fossil deposit, concerns over the effect of the project’s concentrated ‘solar flux’ on birds and other wildlife, and conflict with local Native people.”
Better technology
The obsolete Israeli technology used at Ivanpah and planned for the failed Rio Mesa project has been outpaced in efficiency by photovoltaic cells which convert the sun’s rays directly into electricity without the need for water, steam and turbines. China, Germany and the United States – not Israel – are world leaders in that field.As energy analyst Matthew Feinstein tells the Times, companies supplying the mirror-and-steam systems “have questionable futures.”
“There’s other prospects for renewables and for solar that look a lot better than this particular solution,” Feinstein says, “including rooftop solar systems that are being installed one by one on businesses and homes.”
Greenwashing
In my new book The Battle for Justice in Palestine, I focus on BrightSource as an example of “greenwashing” – the exaggerated or outright false presentation of Israel as an environmental pioneer in order to win “progressive” support and distract from the apartheid regime under which it forces Palestinians to live.Another firm I discuss in the book is the Israeli electric car company Better Place, also heavily promoted around the world as a green pioneer. Better Place, a settlement profiteer with a war criminal as the CEO of its Israeli operation, collapsed last year after it sold only a few hundred cars.
The New York Times story suggests that Israel’s BrightSource, without Obama administration subsidies and boosterism, could be heading the same way.
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http://www.maskofzion.com/2010/10/brightsource-obamas-latest-gift-to.html
BrightSource: Obama’s Latest Gift To Israel
Just when it seemed that war criminal Barack Obama had reached the zenith of subservience to the Zionist entity, he takes his sycophancy to the next level. Obama has already signed a deal with Israel that granted it $30 billion in military aid alone over the next decade (1), and he has proudly declared that his administration has given more security assistance to the Zionist entity than any other administration in history (2). He has restored Israel’s ‘Qualitative Military Edge,’ which is an Orwellian phrase that translates to the US providing Israel with weapons, munitions, vehicles and other technologies to uphold the genocidal occupation of Palestine (3). He has gladly granted Israel $205 million for its Iron Dome missile defense system, which coincidentally, doesn’t work (4). He supports the internationally condemned, criminal, and inhumane blockade of Gaza (5).
Despite the courageous efforts of Mordechai Vanunu that exposed Israel’s secret nuclear program to the world (6), Obama refuses to acknowledge Zionist nukes and has promised to maintain ambiguity about the illegal nature of the program, as well as defend Israel’s refusal to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (7). He has increased American-Israeli military cooperation through joint training exercises, most notably Operation Juniper Cobra, which was designed to provoke Iran (8). All of Obama’s high-ranking intelligence officials have traveled to the usurping Zionist regime to discuss US-Israeli collaborative plans for the future of the Middle East (9). Obama has prepared to provide the Zionist air force with the F-35, the latest Lockheed Martin fighter jet equipped with stealth technology; and has even gone a step further to appease his close friends in Tel Aviv by offering $4 billion to Israeli defense contractors to supply parts for the F-35 (10).
Made In Israel
But these impassioned displays of solidarity with the barbaric Israeli entity weren’t enough. In his most recent public address, Obama decided to present Israel with yet another gift though he didn’t admit it openly. His speech was centered around ‘clean energy’ policies and their grave importance to the new global economy. He trashed India, the occupier of Kashmir, as well as China, and boasted that the world’s largest solar energy plant was located in the US, in the state of California. The plant was operated by a firm named BrightSource (11). Obama authorized the Department of Energy to issue a loan to BrightSource worth $1.37 billion (12). Despite Obama’s nationalistic rhetoric to galvanize environmentalists and his Democratic base, the plant wasn’t Californian. It wasn’t even American. BrightSource is a company founded by a Zionist, operated by Israelis, and based out of occupied lands in Jerusalem and Al Naqab (13).
BrightSource’s founder and chairman emeritus is Arnold J. Goldman, a staunch Zionist who was honored with the ‘Builder of Jerusalem’ award (14) by Aish HaTorah, a radical Zionist organization that operates rabbinical schools for Israeli occupation forces, spreads pro-Israel propaganda through its Hasbara Fellowship programs, and supports the building of illegal Zionist settlements (15). Goldman describes himself as a ‘serious’ Kabbalist (16), a student of ‘Jewish’ mysticism that is deeply rooted in racism and xenophobia (17), and he also is one of the founding members of the International Board of Governors of the Jerusalem College of Technology, which produces advisors for the Israeli Defense Ministry, trains vehicle and aircraft mechanics for IOF, and prepares students to enter the Israeli Communications Corps and Intelligence Corps (18).
The chief operating officer of BrightSource is Israel Kroizer, who also heads Israel Cleantech Ventures, a company that according to its website, receives research and development support from Israeli governmental entities. BrightSource’s vice presidents, Yoel Gilon, Jose Barak, Gabriel Kaufman, and Shmuel Huss all worked for Arnold Goldman at his previous company Luz International Ltd., which had constructed the world’s largest Solar Electric Generating Systems with the full backing of the Tel Aviv regime in occupied Al Naqab (19).
An Initiative Covered In Oil and Blood
Obama has touted BrightSource as a part of his clean energy initiative, but there is nothing clean or environmentally safe about the Zionist firm, especially its investors. BrightSource has raised $160 million in operating capital through several energy companies, including BP and Chevron (20). BP, as it is widely known, is responsible for the gulf oil disaster, which has been fully covered up by Obama’s administration (21). Obama has assigned Zionist asset Kenneth Feinberg to ensure minimal liability for BP and lobby aggressively for victims of the oil spill to take out-of-court settlements, eliminating government culpability (22). In a recent study conducted by the Center for Public Integrity, BP has been discovered to have produced 97% of the refinery violations in the US (23). Chevron is responsible for an even more devastating disaster in the Ecuadorian Amazon, where the corporate entity has dumped 37 million gallons of crude oil and wastewater between 1964 and 1990 (24). Chevron is also complicit in the atrocities being committed in Nigeria and has directly contributed to the ungodly oil spill that has ravaged the African nation for a disgraceful 50 years (25).
BrightSource will be building its 370-megawatt power plant in California’s Mojave Desert, and it has already faced objections and protests from 8 environmental groups and several Native American tribes, due to the threat it poses to the endangered desert tortoise and many rare native plants (26). Representatives from the Colorado River Indian Tribe and the Mojave Indian Tribe have said that BrightSource threatens their tribal heritage, their homes, their religious freedom as the plant will be built directly on top of their places of worship, and the habitat of several federally-protected (and tribally-sacred) animals including bighorn sheep, mountain lions, snakes and hawks (27).
In 2008, BrightSource launched the Negev Solar Development Center at the Rotem Industrial Park, near the Zionist entity’s illegal nuclear facility in Dimona (28). It is Dimona, where Israeli nuclear scientists and intelligence officials dump nuclear waste which has created an atmosphere of cancer and other radiation-related diseases in the southern regions of occupied Al Khalil and Al Naqab. While the Tel Aviv regime approved the distribution of iodine tablets to ‘protect’ people living near the Dimona reactor, it has never admitted to its illegal disposal of nuclear waste and materials. Palestinian physicians like Mahmoud Sa’ada, the co-founder of Palestinian Medical Relief, have determined that there is no plausible cause for the growing cancers and mutations in Al Naqab and Al Khalil except Israeli radioactivity (29).
Israel has engaged in a malicious campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian Bedouins of Al Naqab since Al Nakbah of 1948, and has stepped up its racist, destructive policies considerably since the summer of this year, destroying one village, Al Araqib, four times in less than a month (30). To offset the increased coverage on international solidarity activism efforts to end the razing of homes in Al Naqab, and to cover up its horrific crimes of ethnic cleansing, the Israeli government approved a deal between Arava Power Company, owned by Yosef Abramowitz, and collaborationist Bedouins of the Tarabin and Abu Karinath clans (31).
Abramowitz has served on the board of the ultra-Zionist World Jewish Congress (32), and lives on the Kibbutz Ketura, in occupied Umm Rashrash (Eilat), home to scores of illegal Zionist settlers turned environmental entrepreneurs (33). Arava and BrightSource work together very closely in Al Naqab to accommodate the Zionist entity’s solar energy needs (34). Obama’s generous administration wasn’t happy with providing just one Zionist energy company with a loan, so it has provided Arava with a massive loan as well, worth $300 million (35). It is important to note that the deal between Zionist corporation Arava and the collaborationist Bedouins hasn’t pulled the wool over anyone’s eyes; the ethnic cleansing in Al Naqab desert continues. The Zionist entity destroyed rebuilt homes in Al Araqib for a fifth time just two weeks ago (36), and Israeli bulldozers demolished four homes belonging to Palestinian Bedouin families in Khashim Zema on Monday, October 4th (37). The alliance between Obama, Tel Aviv, BrightSource, and Arava is a genocidal existential threat to indigenous peoples from occupied Palestine to California.
Conclusion
With bloodstained operating capital money and a billion dollar Obama loan fresh in hand, BrightSource is now moving forward with an IPO in 2011. The Zionist firm has hired none other than Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, two of the criminal banking institutions bailed out by Obama’s administration, to handle the initial public offering. Goldman Sachs was the largest contributor to Obama’s presidential campaign (38).
Distinguished scholar, author, and activist Ali Abunimah, who first broke the story about BrightSource (39), commented in his follow-up piece regarding the BrightSource scandal that "Obama did not say anything about a BrightSource IPO, but nevertheless his boosterism about the company in a presidential address clearly has market implications. Obama's intervention on behalf of BrightSource seems particularly odd and inappropriate. He touted it as an example of creating American jobs with American technological ingenuity, and specifically warned against allowing jobs and ‘competitive advantage’ to flow to India, China or other foreign countries. But as an example of supporting domestic clean energy industries, BrightSource is at best a dubious case. Many of the jobs will be created and stay in Israel, and the high-tech benefits and patents are also being developed in Israel (40)."
While Israeli cleantech companies have taken a major hit and are unable to secure venture capital due to the slow recovery in the ‘green’ sector, BrightSource, Avara, and another Obama-funded company, Ormat Technologies, are thriving. Obama has guaranteed Ormat $350 million in loans for three geothermal power plants in Nevada (41). Ormat is also building a 120 megawatt solar power plant in Ashalim, an illegal Zionist settlement in Al Naqab, populated with Israeli students and entrepreneurs strengthening their relations through the Ayalim Association, founded by a group of IOF veterans in 2002 (42). Ormat is owned by the ardent Zionist husband and wife team of Lucien and Yehudit Bronicki. Lucien serves as a member of the Executive Council of the Weizmann Institute of Science, which has several interdisciplinary programs closely tied to Israeli intelligence; he has received the Rothschild Award for Innovation, which is handed out by the Zionist entity’s president; and in 2005, he received honors from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, a key research center for Israel’s nuclear program (43).
The BrightSource scandal has emerged during the latest round of fraudulent peace talks, this time between mass murderer Benjamin Netanyahu and the treasonous collaborationist Abbas-Fayyad Palestinian ‘Authority.’ It is just one more example that the parties involved have no interest in securing peace in the region, only perpetuating the unrelenting and illegal Zionist occupation. Additionally, it is an excellent example of Barack Obama showing his true colors once again: Israeli blue and white. Obama was designed by Zionists from the inception of his political career, and from the moment he was selected as President, he has done nothing but kowtow to Tel Aviv’s every whim. He is not a friend of the Palestinian people; he is their enemy’s willing partner, and their blood will stain his hands for the remainder of his existence.
Peace talks will be considered legitimate when the US stops sending billions in military aid to Israel. When the torturous blockade against Gaza is lifted. When Israeli planes stop dropping bombs on the coastal sliver. When Zionist occupation forces stop shooting innocent men to death on their way home from work (44). When illegal settlements stop being built. When Israel stops detaining, assaulting, and murdering activists in international waters with impunity. When ethnic cleansing stops. When lemon trees and olive trees stop being uprooted. When Gaza fishermen stop being shot at and killed. When thousands of Palestinian prisoners, including young children, are released. When Palestinian women stop being raped. When Palestinians can travel to their places of worship without being harassed or beaten, or both, or worse. When the people choose their own governments and aren’t subjected to collaborationist marionette regimes. When every single Israeli bulldozer is destroyed. When Israel’s murderous politicians are prosecuted for crimes against humanity. And when Zionist companies complicit in several of the aforementioned crimes like BrightSource, Avara and Ormat stop receiving billions in taxpayer monies under the guise of federal loans.
Palestine will know peace when the Zionist entity is completely dismantled and its racist ideology is buried beneath its ashes. Once Zionism ends, the occupation will end, Palestine’s lands will be liberated and the right of return for its people will be implemented. A steadfast commitment to this discourse, along with the dignified Resistance of Palestine’s magnificent people, and the BDS efforts of activists from all over the world, can make the Zionist regime’s demise a hastened reality. Any other option is co-opted by the occupier. And anyone adhering to such a crooked path, is dwelling in the realm of delusion.
~ The End ~
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(1) Israel To Get $30 Billion In Military Aid From U.S. by Steven Erlanger, The New York Times
(2) Interview Of The President by Yonit Levi, Israeli TV
(3) U.S.-Israeli Arms Cooperation Quietly Growing by Nathan Guttman, The Jewish Daily Forward
(4) Iron Dome May Not Be As Effective As IDF Thinks by Yossi Melman, Haaretz
(5) Obama Endorses Gaza Siege by Press TV
(6) The Woman From Mossad: The Story Of Mordechai Vanunu and the Israeli Nuclear Program by Peter Hounam
(7) The State Of U.S. - Israel Relations July 6, 2010 by National Jewish Democratic Council
(8) The Obama Administration’s Approach To U.S.-Israel Security Cooperation: Preserving Israel’s Qualitative Military Edge by Andrew J. Shapiro
(9) US-Israel Cooperation Continues At The Highest Levels by David Streeter
(10) US Arms ‘Bonanza’ In Middle East by Jonathan Cook
(11) Obama Touts Israeli-Developed Solar Company BrightSource by Karin Kloosterman
(12) BrightSource Gets A Billion by Karin Kloosterman
(13) Meet BrightSource’s Arnold Goldman by Green Prophet Staff
(14) Guma Aguiar Honored As ‘Builder of Jerusalem’ By Aish HaTorah by Hana Levi Julian, Israel National News
(15) Rabbi Noah Weinberg, Founder of Aish HaTorah, Dies by Ben Harris, JTA
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(20) Reclaiming His Place In The Sun by Eric A. Taub, The New York Times
(21) Censorship And Cover-Up In The Gulf Oil Disaster by Tom Eley
(22) From Agent Orange, To 9/11, To BP: Kenneth Feinberg Is Master Of Disaster by Sander Hicks
(23) Study: BP Refineries Produce 97% Of Violations by CBS News
(24) Chevron’s Terrestrial Oil Spill: Less Media, More Insidious Than The Gulf Slick by Starre Vartan
(25) Oil Companies Complicit In Nigerian Abuses by Human Rights Watch
(26) BrightSource Energy Gets OK For 370-Megawatt Solar Plant In Mojave Desert by Dana Hull, Mercury News
(27) American Indian Tribes Protest Proposed Solar Power Complex by Kenneth Artz
(28) BrightSource Energy Raises $150 Million Series D Financing by Jonathan Shapira
(29) Dimona’s Buried Nuclear Waste Spreads Cancer And Sterility In Southern Hebron And Negev by International Press Center
(30) Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing Of Palestinian Bedouin by Kim Bullimore
(31) Arava Power Company Signs Solar Deals With Negev Bedouins by Moshe Terdman
(32) Interview With Yosef Abramowitz, CEO Of Arava Power by Avner Warner
(33) Israel’s Kibbutzim Shift From Red To Green by David Wainer, Bloomberg News
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(36) Israel Reportedly Razes Bedouin Village For Fifth Time by Ma’an News Agency
(37) Israel Razes Bedouin Homes In Negev by Press TV
(38) BrightSource Energy Quietly Moves Toward IPO In 2011 by Iris Kuo, Reuters; Goldman Sachs Was Top Obama Donor by Robert Yoon, CNN
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(40) Israel-Based Firm BrightSource That Obama Misleadingly Boosted Has Been ‘Quietly’ Planning For IPO by Ali Abunimah
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