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Report Details Plan to Build "Green Economic Machine" in NM

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008   

Albuquerque, NM - As unemployment figures reach five-year highs, a new report finds that an investment in "green" jobs could bring a quick return to a truly "enchanted economy" in New Mexico. The report, from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, looks at ways to make the transition to clean energy while creating work and boosting the economy in the process.

Shrayas Jatkar with the Sierra Club in New Mexico says more than 13,000 jobs would be created here, decreasing the unemployment rate by about 1.5 percent.

"We're talking about engineering jobs, sheet metal workers, chemists, chemical engineers, truck drivers, and agricultural workers - new jobs in construction and innovative fields that will be created to help stimulate a stagnant economy."

Jatkar notes that the report finds investing in renewable energy would create four times as many jobs as investing the same amount in the oil industry, while also improving public health and well-being. He believes that's especially important given the presence of two big coal-fired power plants and the nuclear industry in the state.

David Foster, director of the Blue Green Alliance , is hopeful the report will help ease concerns that a green economy would mean lost jobs.

"Environmental investments aren't job-killers but are, in fact, the greatest job-creators we have at a particularly worrisome time in our economy."

Critics say the report is "overly optimistic," and the proposal doesn't do enough to meet the country's growing energy needs.

The report was written by the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and commissioned by the Center for American Progress. The full report is available online at
www.peri.umass.edu.




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