Green Living NOT Casino Gambling
20th March, 2008
Sal DiMasi, Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, is eager to stop the bill, allowing casino gambling to be permitted in Massachusetts, as he wants to use the money spared towards green jobs instead.
If you believe local papers, DiMasi is planning on creating a Clean Energy Center, which he already has prepared 450 million for. He is also hoping to set up a Clean Energy Seed Grant Program, which would issue grants from $2 million up to $5 million pa.
This is only the two components of the whole list, the speaker has in place with a very impressive plan he wants to start actualizing. It includes a Clean Energy Fellowship program with a purpose of giving extra training to the office entrepreneurs. There is also a Green Jobs Initiative on the horizon to give extra funding for universities and colleges to create a supply of green collar workers.
Mr DiMasi did not say he in any shape or form dislikes casinos, but his preferences lie with a plan. He feels it is much more important to invest in the green lifestyle rather than a glamorous and very popular vocational activity that has so many risks and potentially negative outcomes, which could put the wellbeing of any area under jeopardy.
Here is what DiMasi said about the plan:
“Here in Massachusetts, we have a natural clean energy cluster – the University of Massachusetts, MIT, and Harvard are leaders in the movement and are educating the leaders and innovators of the future. […]
And throughout the state, we have workers ready to capitalize – to manufacture green products, to test green facilities, to continue green research.”
By Elena
