Dirt Shovel

Deval Patrick joined local officials and representatives from international wind turbine company Vestas to ceremoniously shovel the first pile of dirt at the company&rsquo. Evergreen received more than $40 million in tax incentives, grants and lease agreements related to its Devens manufacturing plant, state officials have said, which some have called for Evergreen to pay back. Still On The Table As of now, Vestas still plans to expand in Marlborough, but that could change, company officials said. Last summer, the company said it had about 20,000 international employees, including about 3,000 in the U. S. , most of them in Colorado and Oregon. The layoff announcement, though, is the latest sign of volatility in the clean energy industry, coming just months after Marlborough-based Evergreen Solar filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, after it had received government support. Vestas, which is headquartered in Denmark but has manufacturing facilities in the United States, recently announced plans to lay off about 10 percent of its global workforce, close a factory in Europe and restructure the firm. s the national example of Solyndra, the California solar manufacturer that has been under heavy criticism since it received a federal loan guarantee, then scaled back its U. S. operations.

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Senior Housing Project to Create 600 Local Jobs

John Kotovsky, LSS president and CEO, picks up a shovel of dirt at the ground-breaking ceremony at Laclede Groves. Pictured with him is State Rep. Jeanne Kirkton/D-91 (left) and Julie Leight, assistant to St. Louis County Executive

For Skip Holtz, A Homecoming Of Sorts

Skip Holtz left Connecticut nearly two years before the first shovel of dirt was moved at the site where Rentschler Field would eventually sit. But as UConn football coach in the mid-1990s, Holtz was privy to the grand plan that would elevate his

What Is President Obama Shoveling Us? Shovel-Ready Jobs Are Stuck In The Dirt

But the administration's focus on shovel-ready jobs, in both the stimulus and now the American Jobs Act , should give us pause. Let's break down why shovel-ready jobs were a focus in the first place, why more weren't produced, and what it takes to make

U breaks ground on nanotech facility, still $10M short

Administration faculty and state officials critical to the success of the new NanoTech building shovel dirt at the groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday afternoon outside Akerman Hall. By Jeff Hargarten Donning construction hard hats,

Ground broken for new Humane Society building

A highlight of the event was turning the first spades of dirt, with a shovel brigade including Capital Campaign Honorary Chairs Kathy Noble and Vikki McClenaghan, Campaign Co-chairs Kathy Hoffman and Leta Laymon and Aransas County Judge CH “Burt” Mills

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