Daily News calls out Hahn on "Hot Air"

If you build green energy people will use it...but Los Angeles' Department of Water and Power's green energy program has appeared to be all talk recently. The Daily News calls Mayor Hahn out on yet another broken promise:

Back in 2003, Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn triumphantly announced -- to the cheers of environmentalists -- that the Department of Water and Power would open a massive wind farm 12 miles north of the High Desert community of Mojave.
The new green power facility was supposed to be operating by July 2004. Now that 2005 is well under way, we learn that the wind farm isn't likely to be in business until at least 2006.

That's to say that, in two years, we have come no closer to getting our wind farm. Hahn's boasting turned out to be well, a lot of hot air -- a false promise to environmentalists, matching the false promises he's made to just about everyone else.

And this false promise didn't come cheap.

The press conference, which featured Hahn standing in front of a turbine at the DWP's downtown headquarters, was carefully choreographed by P.R. giant Fleishman-Hillard. Cost to the taxpayers of Los Angeles: $62,526.