“Green Jobs” Report Touts NM Jobs That Don’t and Won’t Exist

From New Mexico WatchDog.org - By Jim Scarantino - Much hoopla has surrounded release of a study showing that so-called “green jobs” in New Mexico have exploded. But the fact sheet accompanying the report touts 600 “high wage jobs” at a solar plant that isn’t going to be built. The report was featured in an op-ed placed in The Albuquerque Journal, and won glowing coverage by The New Mexico Independent. The report by Headwaters Economics of Bozeman, Montana claims that “green job” growth outpaced all other types of job growth over twelve years from 1995 to 2007. They claim “green jobs” increased 62% while all other jobs increased 13%. The number of “green jobs,” however, remains a fraction of overall employment. At the end of a dozen years of explosive growth, “green jobs” amounted to only about 4,800 positions of the state’s 2008 total employment of 825,736. Read more

“Green Jobs” Report Touts NM Jobs That Don’t and Won’t Exist