U.S. Taxpayers on the Hook As Obama Joins a New International Renewable Energy Agency
Monday, March 07, 2011
By Patrick Goodenough
UN-IRENA
(CNSNews.com) – At a time when congressional Republicans are looking for ways to reduce U.S. funding to the United Nations, the Obama administration has formalized its membership in a new international body – and American taxpayers will provide more than one-fifth of its budget.
The administration on Friday deposited its instrument of acceptance to join the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), State Department spokesman Philip Crowley announced.
After joining in June 2009, the U.S. now becomes the 63rd fully ratified member of IRENA, a European-inspired initiative set up in 2009 to promote renewable forms of energy such as wind and solar power.
Only because it mirrors the exact percentage we pay in the UN. I have no idea who set up our UN participation at 22 percent. We pay more than any nation in the world and I have no idea why. It has always been that way.
$5.2 million is chump change compared to the outrageous amounts the government wastes on other stuff.
I hope we get some benefits from renewable energy.
Only because it mirrors the exact percentage we pay in the UN. I have no idea who set up our UN participation at 22 percent. We pay more than any nation in the world and I have no idea why. It has always been that way.
So it is okay with you that while the talks go on about cutting the spending and the deficit, that he goes and commits to another venture at the taxpayer's expense, and you HOPE for some benefit some day?
