The land is still available for development, even after the embarrassment.
I’m thinking the above sentence needs a question mark at the end. Under present government “thinking” I’m not so sure government land is available for just any kind of development.
...and even if it was, just what idiot is going to jump in after the shutdown debacle proved what being under the government thumb/hammer would get you.
The lament of the socialist: “But the plan looks so *good* on paper!”
I’d be willing to bet that the terms of the Request for Quote were horrendous.
Here’s how the bid process normally works. Some friends of a high ranking den incorporate some green sounding company. They then promise to kick back ten percent of any gov grants to the dems via political donations. Viola! Solendra gets nearly a billion of our money...
Just change "solar" to FRACKING....and watch the money roll in
Better yet....swap the 3,700 acres for 3,700 acres in BLM land on the Green River Formation for fracking.
(Green River Formation weighs in at about 3 TRILLION barrels of oil)
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