A123 Shows Risks as Battery Science Meets Government Cash - Bloomberg

A123’s filing immediately became a presidential campaign issue, because the Obama administration pledged $249.1 million in grants three years earlier to help the company bring jobs and factories to the U.S...“This is about the birth of an entire new industry in America -- an industry that’s going to be central to the next generation of cars,” Obama said in a September 2010 phone call with A123 Chief Executive Officer David Vieau and then-Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm. The call was played over loudspeakers during an event celebrating the opening of a plant in Livonia, Michigan.

GM Says Output of Volt-Like Cadillac to Start in 2013 - Bloomberg

General Motors Co. (GM) said it will begin production of the Cadillac ELR, a two-door, plug-in hybrid that uses Chevrolet Volt-like technology, late next year.

The company will invest $35 million in its Detroit- Hamtramck Assembly plant to build the new model, Mark Reuss, president of GM North America, said in a speech in Detroit. The factory already builds the Volt. Cadillac is GM’s luxury brand.

Indigenous Peoples Bring Concerns to Impacts of AB 32 : Indybay

California’s Global Warming Trading Scheme Could Endanger Indigenous Forest Peoples
International Delegation Warns Against Carbon Offsets Rejected by Other Global Governments
...“We support California’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” said Tom Goldtooth, Executive Director of the Minnesota-based Indigenous Environmental Network. “But REDD amounts to nothing more than a plan to grab the lands that our indigenous peoples have always cared for, in exchange for permits that let industries continue to pollute.”

“REDD plus indigenous peoples equals genocide,” Goldtooth said.

Flashback » Armed Troops Burn Down Homes, Kill Children To Evict Ugandans In Name Of Global Warming

Armed troops acting on behalf of a British carbon trading company backed by the World Bank burned houses to the ground and killed children to evict Ugandans from their homes in the name of seizing land to protect against “global warming,” a shocking illustration of how the climate change con is a barbarian form of neo-colonialism.