Why do we look to the wind industry for solutions to our energy needs when the cradle of industrial wind in the U.S. is ENRON?

Why do we look to the wind industry for solutions to our energy needs when the cradle of industrial wind in the U.S. is ENRON? 

The Director of First Wind is (was?) Patrick Wood III.  First Wind CEO Paul Gaynor is former MA Deval Patrick’s appointed Advisor to the MA energy secretary on green policy under the Global Warming Solutions Act.  Wood is also the Former FERC Chair who failed to address energy market manipulation that led to the CA Energy Crisis, and a long-time promoter of ENRON's Ken Lay. See FTCR’s Letter to FERC Chairman Pat Wood, III 6/15/04, here-

http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/feature/ftcrs-letter-ferc-chairman-...

First Wind Steve Vavrik Vice President, Origination was with ENRON in London in a project development and gas trading capacity. His role at ENRON included trading natural gas forward contracts and negotiating structured power deals.

UPC First Wind President Michael Alvarez is responsible for First Wind operations and assets.  After beginning his energy career with GE Capital, he joined ENRON in London

5/3/08 ‘Enron's ghost, carried on the wind’ Robert Bradley is a 16-year veteran of ENRON, seven of which he spent as a speech writer for Ken Lay. “As Bradley sees it, most of the "green energy" programs that are all the rage now date to initiatives supported by ENRON.”

In 2002, GE with CEO Jeffrey Immelt, spent $358 million to buy the assets of the bankrupt ENRON  Corporation, Zond Wind, founded by James Dehlsen in 1980.  Months later, GE petitioned the courts for the return of over half the money they spent on ENRON assets claiming the value of these assets wasn't worth the price GE paid.  GE’s Immelt led President Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. 

Mike Cutbirth is former head of Global Finance for Zond Corporation and ENRON Wind.  He served 4 years as the first CEO of Clipper Windpower formed by ENRON.   

The first customer of the $40 million, publicly-funded Charlestown, MA Wind Turbine Testing Center WAS Clipper Wind, now bankrupt, founded by ENRON Director James Dehlsen. Dehlsen also served as an advisor to the Department of Energy’s Wind Program, testified at the first U.S. Senate hearings on global warming, and was a delegate to the climate change conference in Kyoto, Japan.

The MA Wind Turbine Testing Center Executive Director  Rahul Yarala is a staffer at MA Clean Energy Center MassCEC, that collects ratepayers' surcharges to invest in renewable schemes, and former Director of Engineering at Clipper Windpower, Inc., formed by ENRON.

Chief Operating Officer of Winergy Power, LLC, is Chris Wissemann is Deepwater Wind Founder is Chief Executive Officer of Fishermen's Energy and hails from ENRON.  

Let us never forget ENRON behind the CA Energy Crisis.  It's interesting to note that Senator Levin, below,  was addressing the future Director of First Wind, Patrick Wood III, then FERC Chairman charged by President George W. Bush to address corporate fraud by ENRON in the following excerpt: 

Senate Government Affairs November 12, 2002 ASLEEP AT THE SWITCH: FERC'S OVERSIGHT OF ENRON CORPORATION--VOL. I

107th Congress transcript states-

Senator Levin: “The Enron scandal began by exposing dishonest accounting at a number of major U.S. companies that, unbeknownst to most, had begun to eat away at the reliability of their financial statements. It has since exposed the conflicts of interest that have made investors distrust investment reports issued by leading U.S. financial firms. It has exposed how those firms have become unwilling participants in shell companies, phony trade deals, and complex financial transactions used to inflate earnings, hide debt, and increase stock prices..”

Levin: “corporate executives have walked away from corporate disasters with millions in their pockets, often from exercising stock options, while pension funds, investors, employees and creditors have lost everything.”

[cut]. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-107shrg83483/html/CHRG-107shrg834...

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