{"id":4234,"date":"2010-06-24T18:12:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T22:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=4234"},"modified":"2010-11-27T11:10:06","modified_gmt":"2010-11-27T15:10:06","slug":"the-unhinged-are-now-running-spanish-green-tech-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/06\/24\/the-unhinged-are-now-running-spanish-green-tech-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"The unhinged are now running Spanish “green” tech companies"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I read this<\/a>, I kept hoping that it’d be fake:<\/p>\n

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Spain\u2019s Dr. Gabriel Calzada — the author of a damning study concluding that Spain\u2019s \u201cgreen jobs\u201d energy program has been a catastrophic economic failure — was mailed a dismantled bomb on Tuesday by solar energy company Thermotechnic.<\/p>\n

Says Calzada:<\/p>\n

Before opening it, I called [Thermotechnic] to know what was inside \u2026 they answered, it was their answer to my energy pieces.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dr. Calzada contacted a terrorism expert to handle the package. The expert first performed a scan of the package, then opened it in front of a journalist, Dr. Calzada, and a private security expert.<\/p>\n

The terrorism consultant said he had seen this before:<\/p>\n

This time you receive unconnected pieces. Next time it can explode in your hands.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dr. Calzada added:<\/p>\n

[The terrorism expert] told me that this was a warning.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I have no idea what Spanish law says about this kind of blatant intimidation, but I hope there are charges laid and convictions resulting from those charges.<\/p>\n

Spain, of course, recently announced<\/a> that they were having to cut back on their plans to become the greenest country in Europe, as they couldn’t afford the additional costs, both up-front and in lost opportunities in other industries.<\/p>\n

H\/T to Ace<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n

Update, 25 June<\/b>: In the comments, Ed Darrell says I’ve been taken in and has a long post up with translations of the original article used by Ace and PajamasMedia: here<\/a>. If Ed is right and I’ve been taken in, I’ll post a retraction. I’m sure he’ll do the same if it turns out to be true.<\/p>\n

Update, 28 June<\/b>: A clarification posted at Ace of Spades HQ<\/a> makes it seem a bit less like a mock-bomb threat.<\/p>\n

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The Green company sending the package apparently had its actual package — a report — swapped with car parts at some point in the mailing. [. . .]<\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t look like, or feel like, a letter or report, so at that point Calzada got a security guard to scan it \u2014 and what was inside was a cylindrical object with wires attached. At that point, the security guard got an expert to examine it, with others in attendance. The contents were a container for diesel of some sort, and some other parts. The expert saw this as a bomb threat, based on a pattern used by, eg., ETA: \u201cThis one is a hoax bomb. The next one might not be.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I read this, I kept hoping that it’d be fake: Spain\u2019s Dr. Gabriel Calzada — the author of a damning study concluding that Spain\u2019s \u201cgreen jobs\u201d energy program has been a catastrophic economic failure — was mailed a dismantled bomb on Tuesday by solar energy company Thermotechnic. Says Calzada: Before opening it, I called […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[65,62,53,15],"tags":[640,343,335,257],"class_list":["post-4234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-europe","category-politics","category-technology","tag-alternativeenergy","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-spain","tag-terrorism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-16i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4234"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6583,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4234\/revisions\/6583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}