Effing aye. This is brilliant.
A verbis ad verbera
Posted on 06/29/2009 3:40:13 PM PDT by tobyhill
-Interior Department Secretary Ken Salazar on Monday announced measures he said would expedite solar energy projects on federal lands.
Although hundreds of solar plant projects have applied for leases, none have been approved, and the fast-track effort was applauded by the industry.
Salazar has made expanding renewable energy leasing on federal property a top priority, and the announcement should help to clear the bottlenecked permitting program.
One of the key initiatives proposes solar energy zones on federal lands in the Western U.S. Other measures include opening new solar energy permitting offices and accelerating reviews of industry proposals.
Environmental advocacy groups such as the Natural Resources Defense Council, or NRDC, have been working with the government to balance regional environmental concerns on land conservation with a federal goal of expanding renewable energy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions thought to contribute to climate change.
"This environmentally sensitive plan will identify appropriate Interior-managed lands that have excellent solar energy potential and limited conflicts with wildlife, other natural resources or land users," Salazar said.
He said the two dozen areas being evaluated by the Interior Department could generate nearly 100,000 megawatts of solar electricity.
"With coordinated environmental studies, good land-use planning and zoning and priority processing, we can accelerate responsible solar energy production that will help build a clean-energy economy for the 21st century," Salazar said.
Many solar projects have been blocked at the local level, putting at risk the Obama administration's plan to double renewable energy production by 2012. For example, in March, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., wrote to Salazar vowing to fight against the construction of a solar project on 600,000 acres of federal land between the Mojave desert preserve and the Joshua Tree National Park.
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But we must keep the deserts pure and pristine for future geneations.
So the same administration prohibits natural gas drilling in Utah and Colorado on BLM land, which is much less environmentally critical and usually less beautiful, but allows us to slap miles of solar panels in the more valuable national parks?
National parks, national wildlife refuges, military reservations, Federal prisons, and public-domain land are all examples of lands owned or administered by the Government of the United States. The Federal Government is responsible for managing and protecting these lands to preserve the resources of the United States....did you catch the words PROTECT and PRESERVE?......I just can’t see solar panels and wind turbines in our national parks...this really does smell fishy.....Cooperate America’s greed will eat us up. Where are the environmentatists on this one?
what a goldurn genius
It is like a high school science class has taken over at Interior. “Hey, let’s put on a show!” Or they have turned over Interior to a bunch of college tree huggers. What is wrong with these people. Are there no adults in charge at all?
Of course. It’s never been about the environment, at least higher than the grassroots treehugger level. It’s always been about control.
Future generations are going to have to wonder about the fuzzy thinking that was allowed to drive public policy in this era.
The environmental movement rivals Nazism and Communism in sheer silliness, and power lust, though clearly, not in noxiousness.
Salazar is an IDIOT. We in Colorado have known it for a LONG time.
The New Conservative: Ken Salazar - New Reservation Dictator: Bad ...Salazar, a supporter of La Raza, seems more concerned with the blending of Mexico ... and a Ken Salazar appointment is evident to that fact. ...
stevenmnielson.blogspot.com/.../ken-salazar-new-reservation-dictator.html -
The list, ping
I’m not opposed to new technolgy, but I guess what disturbs me is that if salazar and all his cronies who think its so wonderfully special, why not put up “THEIR” money to do it. Hmmmmmmmmmmm ? yeah, I thought so
So, once the Awahnee Hotel in Yosemite has to foot the bill to power their Hotel and Cottages with Solar Engergy, a nights stay might cost $700.00 or so, and when Aramark has to foot the same costs as well as paying a severe premium to truck Hot Dogs to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, then a $15.00 Hot Dog will be in order. Brilliant
Imagine the hustle and bustle, with the raods ot get equipment ino these areas, and building transmission lines to get the energyy out into grids.
And all this industry in national parks brought to us by the same people who wouldn’t think of allowing a couple thousand sq foot for drilling operation in the ANWR wasteland.
Lining their pockets with cash from "green" energy. They only fight "fossil fuels". It doesn't matter if the "green" projects fail, only that the taxpayer money gets funneled the right way.
That's pretty funny. The only land in this country that fits that description are rundown urban cities areas: no one wants the property, the only "wildlife" around are roaches and rats, and there's tons of water from treatment plants going unused and dumped in the ocean every day.
The US Govt. owns 1/3 of all the land in the Western US. The Bureau of Land Management, under Interior, administers it. I think that the worry about solar in National Parks is way overblown. There is just too much other land out there available for wind or solar.
Great!
Another idiotic money drain that won’t work or accomplish anything.
What a moron.
The egregious taking of State lands to make them federal lands is one of the more repugnant of the federal excesses of the last century.
When the US government is returned to a limited, constitutional state, with the national debt renounced, the majority of the federal government being disbanded, an end to federal largesse to individuals, and the majority of the US military returned from their “hundred deployments” around the world, except for the critical few; yet one more step needs to be taken to restore these federal land takings to their respective individual States.
It is sad that none of this will be voluntary. That the government and the people will be forced by circumstances to obey the constitution and the principles of limited government. Would that at some point we could have chosen to do this, instead of it being forced on us by circumstances.
I’ll sue everytime someone tries to do this. I’ll use every endangerment finding that I can find for every species I can find.
Somehow, I think Pvt. Gump has much more smarts than Ken Salazar.
no actitivity that causes carbon emissions without compensation NOW.. No lights, no heat, no A/C, no computers, no printers, no sound system, no transport, no nothing period.
Let them set the example by a "Zero-Carbon Government". Today.
Effing aye. This is brilliant.
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