The “green jobs” reality check came soon after another new green jobs company, Boston Power Inc., canceled plans to build a Bay State manufacturing plant when a hoped-for $100 million grant from federal “stimulus” funds failed to materialize.
Ironically, Evergreen cited Massachusetts’ high energy costs — 57 percent above the national average (but still less than Connecticut’s) — as a factor in its decision to move manufacturing operations to China, a country where manufacturing is largely powered by high sulfur-emitting coal plants.
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