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Comment by J Jay Pirko on August 26, 2010 at 9:18pm

More great news from this "hotbed" of sustainable, USA-based energy technology and industry, from the Youngstown Business Journal:

* Biofuels Energy Project $2.5 million startup would convert algae.

* Youngstown's top development official updates viewers on job-creation initiatives.

If you are need working energy business models, or a place to build your new energy businesses, you should look at the Youngstown, Ohio region. We are already building it here with every tool in the tool box, including waste-to-energy, solar, wind, coal-to-aircraft fuel, and everything needed for Marcellus shale gas exploration.

We have unprecedented teamwork including our Regional Chamber of Commerce, universities, and government officials who understand and are committed to building our economy by eliminating our dependence on foreign oil.

James Jay (Jim) Pirko
Pickens Plan District Leader (OH-17)

Comment by J Jay Pirko on July 13, 2010 at 10:01pm

We are building the new energy economy in the "Tech Belt" Youngstown Ohio region, with a "Green Tech" electrical workers training facility, operational wind, photovoltaic solar, waste-to-energy electricity generation, the energy-efficient Chevy Cruze, a "Green Energy Business Incubator," diesel engines designed to run on natural gas, and a new $650,000,000 steel mill to produce the pipes to drill the Marcellus shale gas deposits. - J. J. Pirko, Pickens Plan Ohio 17th District Leader

Comment by J Jay Pirko on May 16, 2010 at 3:18pm

Congressman Tim Ryan (OH-17) Newsletter Reported:

NORTHEAST OHIO IS RIPE FOR 'GREEN GROWTH'
In a Vindy article from Monday, Team NEO, a Cleveland-based nonprofit that promotes business development and attraction, released its quarterly economic report. The report focuses on the future of “clean-tech” industries in the 16 counties that make up Northeastern Ohio. Major Northeastern Ohio manufacturing sectors that make up the clean-tech supply chain include fabricated metals, plastics, machinery, iron and steel mills and structural metals.

These industries contribute $12.5 billion to the regional economy and make up 35 percent of manufacturing in the area. The industries are expected to grow more than 20 percent by 2015, according to the Team NEO report. The report points out that U.S. Department of Labor has identified occupations expected to see increased demand from the growing clean-tech sector, including computer-controlled machine tool operators, machine setters, materials scientists and industrial production managers.

SELECTED TO POWERFUL DEFENSE SUBCOMMITTEE
Earlier this week, I announced my selection to the powerful Defense Appropriations Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives. I am humbled and honored to fill the vacancy caused by the untimely death of Congressman John Murtha of Pennsylvania.

The Defense Appropriations Subcommittee has jurisdiction over the Department of Defense – Military, Departments of Army, Navy (including Marine Corps), Air Force, Office of Secretary of Defense, certain Defense Agencies, the Central Intelligence Agency, and Intelligence Community Staff.

This appointment is a huge win for the 17th District. The Defense budget is the largest of all the budgets in the United States government. Having the opportunity to steer federal defense dollars to our district will accelerate the economic progress of our region and further promote the Tech Belt initiative. I will make sure everyone doing business with the Pentagon knows what a great place Northeast Ohio is to do business.

I have been given a very serious responsibility and a tremendous opportunity to serve on the subcommittee that provides direction and funding for our national security. I will work extremely hard to make sure the men and women who serve our great country have all of the resources they need. This seat on the Defense Appropriations subcommittee will have a significant impact on our military facilities at the Ravenna Training and Logistics Site and the Youngstown-Warren Air Reserve Wing and its 910 Airlift Wing, as well as the manufacturers and contractors in our region that provide equipment and services to the military.

In Fiscal Year 2010, the Defense Appropriations subcommittee appropriated more than $625.9 billion for Defense-related activities including operations and training, health care for uniformed and civilian personnel, the maintenance of arms, equipment and facilities, and the development and purchase of new equipment.

I also joined the Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government and retained his seat on the Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education.

PRESIDENT OBAMA TO TRAVEL TO YOUNGSTOWN
I'm proud to announce that President Obama will be visiting Youngstown on Tuesday, May 18. The President will tour the V&M Star facility and address the current economy, and efforts to retain and create jobs in Northeastern Ohio and across the country.

I have been urging President Obama to visit the Mahoning Valley, and look forward to showing him first-hand the exciting progress that we are making here. National and international publications have recognized the positive economic news coming from our community. Our progress has now caught the attention of the President of the United States.

It is evident that our local economic development strategy is bearing fruit; residents, businesses, and local governments throughout the Valley and the District stand to reap long-term benefits from a number of recent positive investments in our economy – V&M Star, GM Lordstown, Revere Data, and Severstal Steel are just the beginning. These significant investments send a clear message that Ohio's 17th District has a world-class workforce and is home to a globally-competitive business climate.

TAA ASSISTANCE FOR FORMER MAHONING GLASS EMPLOYEES
Yesterday, I announced that workers of Mahoning Glass Plant in Niles, OH were certified to receive important job training and placement assistance from the U. S. Department of Labor.

According to the report issued by the Department of Labor:

"All workers of Mahoning Glass Plant, GE Appliances and Lighting Division, a subsidiary of General Electric Co., Inc., Niles, Ohio, who became totally or partially separated from employment on or after March 29, 2010, through two years from the date of certification, and all workers in the group threatened with total or partial separation from employment on the date of certification through two years from the date of certification, are eligible to apply for adjustment assistance under Chapter 2 of Title II of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended."

I will continue to urge the Obama Administration to provide TAA benefits for all constituents in the 17th District who have lost their jobs. The advantages provided by training and job placement assistance will position the former employees of Mahoning Glass Plant for success in a new economy.

* Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) and Alternative Trade Adjustment Assistance (ATAA) help trade-affected workers who have lost their jobs as a result of increased imports or shifts in production out of the United States. Certified individuals may be eligible to receive one or more program benefits and services depending on what is needed to return them to employment. (Source: http://www.doleta.gov/tradeact/benefits.cfm)

Comment by Tom Bailey on March 17, 2010 at 5:59pm

More positive frontline info!
This link has more great info on the role of renewables!
This is an indication we should look into heavier investing.
Best; Tom

Comment by J Jay Pirko on February 21, 2010 at 11:35am

To the PickensPlan Leadership Team:

Encouraging energy business news is coming from the Youngstown, Ohio area. Google the Youngstown Business Journal, open the links to the news stories, and read about this hotbed of new energy industries.

For Pickens Plan entrepreneurs, this is a place to find the resources needed to grow a sustainable energy economy.

At our Regional Chamber of Commerce meeting Wed-17-Feb-2010, Congressman Tim Ryan recognized, and expressed his support for the Pickens Plan and HR 1835 (the NAT GAS Act.)

Executives from V & M Star Steel, who are investing $650 MILLION in their Youngstown plant to make gas/oil drilling pipe, were the guests of honor. Attending were a few hundred business and government officials.

This should encourage all Pickens Plan activists, that Boone's vision of American energy independence is becoming reality in the heart of the old "Rustbelt."

J. Jay (Jim) Pirko
Pickens Plan Leader OH-17

Comment by Tom Bailey on January 16, 2010 at 6:26am

The latest petition " Energy indepenence now petition" is a new one we all need to sign.

Please take a second to do it.
Thanks for all you are doing as the labor continues!

Best; Tom

Comment by J Jay Pirko on December 22, 2009 at 11:34pm

Notice to Entrepreneurs in the New Energy Economy:

ADVANCED-ENERGY BUSINESS INCUBATOR IN WARREN, OHIO

The Youngstown-Warren Ohio region (in northeast Ohio and western Pennsylvania) is a hotbed for Green Energy technology and business opportunity.

The Youngstown Business Journal published this article, another example of their outstanding business news coming from the Youngstown region. (I strongly recommend subscribing to the Youngstown Business Journal daily news broadcasts, and in-depth printed newspaper.)

- James Jay Pirko
OH-17 District Leader


NorTech to Help Launch Warren Incubator
-- 12/15/2009
Dec. 22, 2009 6:48 a.m.
By Dennis LaRue
WARREN, Ohio -- Possessed of a vision and fortified with $2.7 million in federal and state grants and another $1.7 million in private funding, a steering committee of 26 will, over the next 10 months, work toward the birth of an advanced-energy business incubator downtown.

Midwife to this birth is Rebecca O. Bagley, president and CEO of NorTech, a consulting firm based in downtown Cleveland whose tagline is “Growing Northeast Ohio’s High Tech Economy.”

Bagley, U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan, D-17 Ohio, state Sen. Capri Cafaro, D-32 Hubbard, state Rep. Tom Letson, D-64 Warren, and Mayor Michael O’Brien, outlined their vision Monday of what such an incubator might achieve in the fields of “advanced energy and flexible materials.”

Long on optimism and short on specifics, the four expressed hope the incubator will rejuvenate manufacturing in Mahoning Valley through infant enterprises that one day produce parts for windmills, geothermal, solar and nuclear energy plants and sources of energy other than petroleum, coal and natural gas.

“Four hundred tons of steel go into a windmill,” Ryan noted.

Bagley offered a number of people she expects would be employed in the incubator -- “50 to 70 jobs” – rather the number of companies that would be housed there.

“We have done some market testing,” she said later, reporting that “450 firms” in the region are interested.

The incubator is incorporated as a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that will be funded by both the public and private sectors.

The site of the incubator, whether it will be a converted building or a brand-new structure, and its design all must be worked out, to be determined by the steering committee that includes “nine CEOs or CEO-level executives,” Bagley said.

Mike Garvey, president of M 7 Technologies, Youngstown, and William Letson, president of the Trumbull 100, were present at yesterday’s press event in Ryan’s Warren office. So, too, were leaders from organized labor such as Gary Steinbeck, Sub-District 1 director of the United Steel Workers of America, and Mark Catello, business manager of Local 573 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.

Tony Iarusso, executive director of Warren Redevelopment and Planning, “will be involved,” O’Brien promised.

“Our role is facilitation,” Bagley said, “walking the steering committee through the process.”

The steering committee will look closely at the Youngstown Business Incubator, which Ryan called “a successful model [that will help the committee] avoid landmines.” He praised its success, noting it has earned national attention and, he hopes, the Warren incubator will too.

O’Brien voiced great optimism about the incubator, which in conjunction with the main campus of Eastern Gateway Community College to be established in Warren, should boost his city’s economy. Bagley and Ryan expect a partnership will develop between the community college and incubator.

“From North Park [Avenue] to Main Street,” O’Brien predicted, “within the next year, all [vacant buildings] will be filled.”

After nearly 30 years of neglect from Washington and Columbus, he rejoiced in the funding for the incubator and the development of the community college campus.

O’Brien pronounced himself “thoroughly impressed by the connectivity” of the Ohio House of Representatives, Ohio Senate and Congress that allowed the public funding of the incubator.

Before founding NorTech, Bagley served as deputy secretary for the Technology Investment Office of the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development under Gov. Ed Rendell, says the biography provided by NorTech. There she “was responsible for the administration of several major state programs and initiatives, including the Life Sciences Greenhouse Initiative, the Ben Franklin Technology Partners, the Keystone Innovation Zone program, the research and development tax credit program and the manufacturing strategy.”

In that role, she managed “more than $1.7 billion in investments for Pennsylvania.”

Before that she was an investment banker in New York City where she was involved in oil and gas mergers and raising capital for various energy ventures.

She earned her baccalaureate in marketing at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Copyright 2009 The Business Journal, Youngstown, Ohio.

Comment by Arno Lundin on January 8, 2009 at 3:55pm

Algea fuel if no natural water eco system is dissrupted

Comment by Dawn on January 8, 2009 at 3:40pm

What would you people invest your money in right now...
ALGEA Fuel
Synthetic Fuels made of animal and bio fat waste
Ground Oil
Natural Gas
coal

Comment by Arno Lundin on December 15, 2008 at 2:56pm

Cool goverment has approved to fund 50% of building costs for purelignin.com Front end bio refinery. This technology is what we are licensing and implementing.
W are waiting to hear if that funding includes any liscencee's which we imagine it will.
We continue to seek private funding interested parties may contact me any time.
Process developed by purelignin.com reduces polution to near 0, deliver's higher quality product and reduces energy consumption for existing producers as well as provides side stream revenues one of which is generation of ectricity, ehtanols, and bio plastics etc. DOE reported in 2005 that this type of technology was needed for many industries if they were to remain viable. Coincidentally when this report came out the technology was in the patent office getting approved. Hard to grasp the big picture but I feel the technology will allow for many things that were not possible due to high cost of production to now be possible. This may be so large a market that I feel it will dominate the nowt new economy of Renewable's.

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