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In its new TV and Web advertisement blitz, the Sierra Club is calling out names—21 of them.
The organization launched a national campaign Thursday urging Congress to reauthorize the wind production tax credit (PTC), which expired at the end of 2013 and has experienced little movement in Washington since. The Sierra Club campaign’s first wave targets 21 members of the U.S. House of Representatives who have either opposed the PTC or voiced no opinion, essentially allowing jobs and local investments to leave their districts.
The ad targeting U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI) serves as an example of what the campaign has in store.
http://youtu.be/a32jk2Q28Mg
“The Wind Production Tax credit is arguably one of the best bets we’ve made on clean, domestic energy,” Dave Hamilton, director of clean energy for Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign, said in a statement. “It encourages huge investments, creates good American jobs, helps our country become more energy independent, and cuts air and water pollution.
“But many in Congress are failing to act, leaving thousands of American workers and communities across the country blowing in the wind.”
The Walberg ad will air 5,000 times this month on broadcast and cable channels in Michigan’s 7th district. Geo-targeted online ads aimed at 20 other representatives launched this week and will run through at least June on local and national news websites.
“For wind in America’s heartland, the sky’s the limit,” said Mary Anne Hitt, director of Beyond Coal. “Wind energy has created tens of thousands of good-paying, family-sustaining jobs, and has the potential to create tens of thousands more—all while generating enough clean energy to more than meet our nation’s electricity needs.”
The wind industry employs about 80,000 workers and produces enough electricity to power 15 million homes. Before it expired, the PTC was a $0.022 per kilowatt-hour tax credit on the power that new wind farms in the U.S. generate for the first ten years of their operation.
All of the ads are targeted at House Republicans. Here are the others:
- Doug Collins (GA)
- Todd Rokita (IN)
- Larry Bucshon (IN)
- Thomas Massie (KY)
- Dan Benishek (MI)
- John Kline (MN)
- Steve Daines (MT)
- Steve Pearce (NM)
- Patrick McHenry (NC)
- Robert Pittenger (NC)
- Joe Heck (NV)
- Jim Jordan (OH)
- Mike Turner (OH)
- Greg Walden (OR)
- Pat Meehan (PA)
- Randy Neugebauer (TX)
- Scott Rigell (VA)
- Robert Hurt (VA)
- Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA)
- Reid Ribble (WI)