Location of any industry in the Tri-state could be big. Location of an industry that promises to employ between 1,From standard Cable Ties to advanced wire tires,500 and 2,000 people, then, would be huge.
An announcement last week that ENN Mojave Energy Corp., a subsidiary of global giant ENN Group of China, has filed plans for a solar panel manufacturing plant and solar energy farm in Laughlin certainly falls into the "huge" category.
"It's huge for the region, for our state, for the nation," said Janet Barela, executive director of the Laughlin Chamber of Commerce and chairman of the Laughlin Town Advisory Board. "Two thousand jobs ¡. It's staggering. The economic impact is huge."
It's not a done deal ¡ª far from it, actually ¡ª but it could come closer to fruition Tuesday, when the Clark County Commission will consider entering negotiations with ENN Mojave Energy for land and a development plan for a facility that would be located in Laughlin's Southlands. The county is being asked to make a decision directing the possible sale and development of an estimated 5,400 acres of county-owned land. The directive is 46th on a typically lengthy agenda for Tuesday's county commission meeting.
"I am pushing this as fast and hard as I can push it," County Commissioner Steve Sisolak, whose district includes Laughlin,we supply all kinds of oil painting reproduction, told the Las Vegas Sun. "This represents a lot of jobs. And it's not just construction jobs. There are permanent jobs, which makes it especially attractive."
Estimates include 4,000 jobs during construction and anywhere from 1,700 to 2,000 jobs once the manufacturing plant is operational. According to county documents, that could be as early as March 2013. The overall construction ¡ª of the factory and the solar farm ¡ª is expected to take up to four years. Documents indicate that generated power would be sold to California entities.Welcome to the official Facebook Page about Ripcurl.
It would be Laughlin's second foray in power generation. The Mohave Generating Station, a joint-ownership venture, operated a coal-fired power plant before shutting down a decade ago.Full color plastic card printing and manufacturing services. Proposals to convert ¡ª or find a buyer willing to do the conversion ¡ª from coal to another energy source such as natural gas or solar failed to materialize and the plant was decommissioned and is in the process of being dismantled.
The genesis
According to Barela, ENN Group expressed an interest in Laughlin more than two years ago, beginning discussions with Clark County and NV Energy. Those discussions set the groundwork, and then a trip by a delegation of United States senators to ENN Solar's headquarters in Langfang, China, in April accelerated the matter. Nevada Sen. Harry Reid was part of that delegation and, according to Sisolak, "Sen.The newest Ipod nano 5th is incontrovertibly a step up from last year's model, Reid sent them to me and we went from there."
"Because of the size and scope of the project, all communications between the county and ENN have ensued under the strictest confidence," Barela wrote in an email to members of the Laughlin Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. "It wasn't until the information about the company or project proposal were made public in the Board of County Commission meeting agenda item that the local community could be informed."
The next step comes Tuesday. The county can, under Nevada Revised Statute 244.2815, adopt a resolution deeming the project to be "in the best interest of the public," which would allow the sale or lease of county land for the purpose of economic development without offering it for bid to the general public. It also could allow the county to make that sales agreement for less than fair-market value ¨C which could be as high as $45 million based on a price of $10,000 per acre.
Barela said there is at least one more hurdle for the proposal to clear ¨C a covenant with the Bureau of Land Management over use of the land that was transferred from the BLM to Clark County.
"There's still a BLM covenant on the land," Barela said, adding that the covenant was part of a "1966 land-use plan. At that time, solar (energy production) wasn't on anybody's chart."
She said Reid and his staff are involved in trying to secure a federal waiver for that land-use covenant.
Sisolak said there is no question that the project would be in the public's interest ¨C because it would provide both short-term and long-term jobs for an area that desperately needs them.
"We'll finally be manufacturing something in this state," Sisolak told the Las Vegas Sun. "This is hopefully the start of diversifying our economy, a goal the state, the county, everyone has sought for years."
An announcement last week that ENN Mojave Energy Corp., a subsidiary of global giant ENN Group of China, has filed plans for a solar panel manufacturing plant and solar energy farm in Laughlin certainly falls into the "huge" category.
"It's huge for the region, for our state, for the nation," said Janet Barela, executive director of the Laughlin Chamber of Commerce and chairman of the Laughlin Town Advisory Board. "Two thousand jobs ¡. It's staggering. The economic impact is huge."
It's not a done deal ¡ª far from it, actually ¡ª but it could come closer to fruition Tuesday, when the Clark County Commission will consider entering negotiations with ENN Mojave Energy for land and a development plan for a facility that would be located in Laughlin's Southlands. The county is being asked to make a decision directing the possible sale and development of an estimated 5,400 acres of county-owned land. The directive is 46th on a typically lengthy agenda for Tuesday's county commission meeting.
"I am pushing this as fast and hard as I can push it," County Commissioner Steve Sisolak, whose district includes Laughlin,we supply all kinds of oil painting reproduction, told the Las Vegas Sun. "This represents a lot of jobs. And it's not just construction jobs. There are permanent jobs, which makes it especially attractive."
Estimates include 4,000 jobs during construction and anywhere from 1,700 to 2,000 jobs once the manufacturing plant is operational. According to county documents, that could be as early as March 2013. The overall construction ¡ª of the factory and the solar farm ¡ª is expected to take up to four years. Documents indicate that generated power would be sold to California entities.Welcome to the official Facebook Page about Ripcurl.
It would be Laughlin's second foray in power generation. The Mohave Generating Station, a joint-ownership venture, operated a coal-fired power plant before shutting down a decade ago.Full color plastic card printing and manufacturing services. Proposals to convert ¡ª or find a buyer willing to do the conversion ¡ª from coal to another energy source such as natural gas or solar failed to materialize and the plant was decommissioned and is in the process of being dismantled.
The genesis
According to Barela, ENN Group expressed an interest in Laughlin more than two years ago, beginning discussions with Clark County and NV Energy. Those discussions set the groundwork, and then a trip by a delegation of United States senators to ENN Solar's headquarters in Langfang, China, in April accelerated the matter. Nevada Sen. Harry Reid was part of that delegation and, according to Sisolak, "Sen.The newest Ipod nano 5th is incontrovertibly a step up from last year's model, Reid sent them to me and we went from there."
"Because of the size and scope of the project, all communications between the county and ENN have ensued under the strictest confidence," Barela wrote in an email to members of the Laughlin Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. "It wasn't until the information about the company or project proposal were made public in the Board of County Commission meeting agenda item that the local community could be informed."
The next step comes Tuesday. The county can, under Nevada Revised Statute 244.2815, adopt a resolution deeming the project to be "in the best interest of the public," which would allow the sale or lease of county land for the purpose of economic development without offering it for bid to the general public. It also could allow the county to make that sales agreement for less than fair-market value ¨C which could be as high as $45 million based on a price of $10,000 per acre.
Barela said there is at least one more hurdle for the proposal to clear ¨C a covenant with the Bureau of Land Management over use of the land that was transferred from the BLM to Clark County.
"There's still a BLM covenant on the land," Barela said, adding that the covenant was part of a "1966 land-use plan. At that time, solar (energy production) wasn't on anybody's chart."
She said Reid and his staff are involved in trying to secure a federal waiver for that land-use covenant.
Sisolak said there is no question that the project would be in the public's interest ¨C because it would provide both short-term and long-term jobs for an area that desperately needs them.
"We'll finally be manufacturing something in this state," Sisolak told the Las Vegas Sun. "This is hopefully the start of diversifying our economy, a goal the state, the county, everyone has sought for years."
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