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Federal government halts solar energy development on public land
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME???
This is like a bad joke by the Federal government saying no public solar energy because of possible environmental impact...
Yet hey MOAR DRILLING!
Bush Cites Enviro Concerns to Curb Solar Development…While Accelerating Oil Drilling
A few weeks back, I wrote a New York Times magazine article about the populist uprising against unbridled oil and gas drilling in the Mountain West.
The article highlighted a major theme in my new book, THE UPRISING.
In the article, I discussed how the Bush Bureau of Land Management has thrown the principle of environmental caution overboard by opening up a huge amount of federal land to drilling.
So it is with more than a little bit absurd to read this New York Times story today:
“Faced with a surge in the number of proposed solar power plants, the federal government has placed a moratorium on new solar projects on public land until it studies their environmental impact, which is expected to take about two years.
The Bureau of Land Management says an extensive environmental study is needed to determine how large solar plants might affect millions of acres it oversees in six Western states.”
Do you love it?
We’re facing gas prices that necessitate drilling in environmentally sensitive and heretofore protected land right now, despite absolutely no evidence that it would ease current prices.
Yet the Bush administration sees no dichotomy in insisting that we need to take a slow, measured approach to building solar plants, lest we don’t take into account the long term environmental impact.
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Citing environmental concerns, US freezes new solar plant construction
The New York Times reports that the Bureau of Land Management has placed a two-year moratorium on new solar projects on public land, saying that it needs to study their environmental impact.
The decision, reached late last month, could threaten the nation’s fledgling solar industry, which may be forced to turn to more expensive private land on which to construct plants.
In recent years, many solar companies have been seeking leases on federal land, the Times reports:
Much of the 119 million surface acres of federally administered land in the West is ideal for solar energy, particularly in Arizona, Nevada and Southern California, where sunlight drenches vast, flat desert tracts.
Galvanized by the national demand for clean energy development, solar companies have filed more than 130 proposals with the Bureau of Land Management since 2005.
They center on the companies’ desires to lease public land to build solar plants and then sell the energy to utilities.
According to the bureau, the applications, which cover more than one million acres, are for projects that have the potential to power more than 20 million homes.
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It sounds like trehuggery is as much to blame as Dummy Bush.
If we didn't have to launch multi-year studies everytime someone in this country wants to build an outhouse, we could have these solar farms in place quickly.
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To be honest, I don't think the Department of Energy should exist.
I do not think the government has any business being involved with research.
That is what the private sector is for.
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Andy:
It sounds like trehuggery is as much to blame as Dummy Bush.
If we didn't have to launch multi-year studies everytime someone in this country wants to build an outhouse, we could have these solar farms in place quickly.
It sounds like somebody is using pseudo-treehuggery as an excuse
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Andy:
It sounds like trehuggery is as much to blame as Dummy Bush.
If we didn't have to launch multi-year studies everytime someone in this country wants to build an outhouse, we could have these solar farms in place quickly.
wtf tree huggers are objecting to solar panels?
That is the like the utopic view of all tree huggers to power shit on solar.
Solar on public lands started showing up in the 80s and all the sudden the federal government decides to place a moratorium on it saying they are skeptical of the environmental impact.
Im hoping there are already studies out there that can expediate and end this stupid moratorium.
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Scott Curtis:
To be honest, I don't think the Department of Energy should exist.
I do not think the government has any business being involved with research.
That is what the private sector is for.
This was the Bureau of Land Management who placed a moratorium.
I don't know what role the DOE had or if they were involved.
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Some tree huggers do not want any land to be used for anything.
So they put all these stupid regulations that make it impossible to do anything.
Out west they want to put all of our nuke waste had to have research done for 20 years then sent to the feds.
Then they review it for 4 years then if they approve it 4 years from now it will take 20 years to get it running.
(i got this from glen beck) so they don't want us to prosper but to become slaves to the rest of the commie world.
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Gene:
some tree huggers do not want any land to be used for anything.
So they put all these stupid regulations that make it impossible to do anything.
Out west they want to put all of our nuke waste had to have research done for 20 years then sent to the feds.
Then they review it for 4 years then if they approve it 4 years from now it will take 20 years to get it running.
(i got this from glen beck) so they don't want us to prosper but to become slaves to the rest of the commie world.
lol at Glen Beck as a source.
Gene.
TREEHUGGERS didn't do this.
This was a Republican administration's action.
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I want to see proof of "treehuggers" being responsible for a federal decision to halt solar technology on public land.
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Max Fischer: President Rushmore Atabrine Society:
It sounds like somebody is using pseudo-treehuggery as an excuse
I suspect they thought they would be cute in placing a moratorium on solar to attack the "treehuggers" for trying to get in the way of more off-shore production.
This is total douchebaggery for this administration to try and get what they want.
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Groucho Marxist:
I want to see proof of "treehuggers" being responsible for a federal decision to halt solar technology on public land.
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More Bush environmentalism...
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Max Fischer: President Rushmore Atabrine Society:
gene:
some tree huggers do not want any land to be used for anything.
So they put all these stupid regulations that make it impossible to do anything.
Out west they want to put all of our nuke waste had to have research done for 20 years then sent to the feds.
Then they review it for 4 years then if they approve it 4 years from now it will take 20 years to get it running.
(i got this from glen beck) so they don't want us to prosper but to become slaves to the rest of the commie world.
lol at Glen Beck as a source.
Gene.
TREEHUGGERS didn't do this.
This was a Republican administration's action.
Like any other group opposed to Bush's policies trying to work with or stop him, tree-huggers managed were many others have failed?
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