Posted on 10/25/2019 5:10:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
SHIAWASSEE COUNTY (WJRT) (10/22/2019) - The construction contractor for a $250 million solar farm in Shiawassee County is ready to start hiring 250 workers to build the development.
McCarthy Building Companies, which is the general contractor for Ranger Power's Assembly Solar project in Hazelton and Venice townships, is looking for pile drivers, forklift operators, layout crews and general laborers.
The jobs all start at $15 an hour with higher wages possible based on experience. On the job training will be provided, along with health insurance, paid time off, retirement savings and seven paid holidays in 2020. Construction is expected to last into 2021 McCarthy is conducting open interviews next week during two events:
-- 1 to 3 p.m. Tuesday at Michigan Works at 1975 M-21 in Owosso.
-- 3 to 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Owosso Armory at 215 N. Water St.
-- 8 a.m. to noon Wednesday at the Owosso Armory. Applicants don't need to make appointments, but they should bring a resume and come prepared for a brief intervivew.
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Apply and see if you hear back.
Solar farm in Michigan? When do they start building a temple to the Sun God? Pyramids would be good too. Thousands of years from now tourists would flock to see the Obama pyramid.
Boondoggle.
And in less than a year from now, when the project is completed, those benefits and vacation days won’t mean doodley squat
And they likely won’t be locals filling those jobs. they’ll be travelling crews that already do this work.
there were busloads of little brown people hauled in to do the rebar work on the floating foundations for the spinning and blinking 300 foot tall Monuments to Gaia near me
Virtually no locals got even short-term construction jobs that the county was promised
They must have plenty of government money to throw away.
“7. Michigan. Many of the cloudiest states share a border with one of the Great Lakes, but Michigan is virtually surrounded by them. As cold winds rush over Lake Superior and Lake Huron during the winter, lots of condensation forms, bringing clouds and tons of lake effect snow. Because of this and other climate factors, no matter where you live in Michigan, you’re only likely to see between 65 and 75 clear days each year.”
https://www.farmersalmanac.com/top-10-cloudiest-u-s-states-22480
Not enough sun for solar in Michigan. My guess is it’s somehow subsidized thanks to the new lefty governor.
At 43 degree N. Latitude and with the snow fall, I don’t see how this project will produce a meaningful amount of electricity. That location has a 4.1 daily sun-hour average. During the fall, winter and spring months it can drop to only 3 sun-hours per day. Just seems odd doing this there.
Most of the employees will be serving buckets of fried birds cooked with 11 herbs and spices.
$15/hr. A job for 18 year olds being used until the project is done. Hopefully they’ll learn that there’s more to success than a strong back/weak mind.
They can take their danged solar farm & put it where the sun don’t shine. Oh wait...they’re already doing that.
The obvious question here is, why are we letting them?
And will they be hiring winter workers to scrape the snow off the solar panels?
And how will those winter workers keep warm?
Oh, I know! The solar farm will power ginormous heaters to keep the workers warm! Or to melt the snow on the solar panels! ! Or something like that!
Maybe we should ask the gubbermint for more ideas, since they think it’s their money they’re blowing on dumbass crap like this.
Yeah, that’s it.
Let’s ask Ms. Ocasio-Cortez.
Pissing away a quarter of a billion dollars is money much more well spent then on fixing that one continuous pothole they call a state!
Not everybody is going to get a job built to your specifications. You and I probably both know people that would be happy with that wage plus benefits. We wouldn’t but they would.
Yes ... and who might those people BE ?
Years ago there was a thread that listed all of the defunct solar companies, and the amount each had received in government supports. I thought that crap had ended - I guess not.
“Okay - so you’re not interested in water-front property in Florida. How about a solar energy farm in Michigan?”
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