[MeshugeMikey]

Im certain the Torti...will enjoy their solar neighbors///

[ilovesarah2012]

Interior Approves Two Ivanpah Valley Solar Projects on Chemehuevi Homelands

ICTMN Staff
2/20/14

Two controversial solar projects in the Ivanpah Valley, a renowned desert tortoise habitat that contains traditional homelands of the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, have been approved by the U.S. Department of the Interior.

The 300-megawatt Stateline Solar Farm Project will be built in San Bernardino County, California, on about 1,685 acres of public land that’s two miles south of the California-Nevada border, the Interior Department said in a release. This facility will be able to power 90,000 homes via photovoltaic panels, and create 400 construction jobs plus 12 permanent jobs, the department said.

Likewise, the 250-megawatt Silver State South Solar Project near Primm, Nevada on about 2,400 acres of public land will be able to power 80,000 or so homes. That will be next to the 50-megawatt Silver State North Project, an Enbridge enterprise that has been operating since 2012 and was the first solar plant on public lands to deliver power to the grid. Silver State South will also use photovoltaic panels and will generate an estimated 300 jobs during construction and 15 permanent operations jobs, the Interior Department’s media release said.

The projects, which straddle the California-Nevada line, had been under scrutiny and been met with legal action by environmental groups and the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe for their infringement on endangered desert tortoise habitat, among other concerns. In its official Biological Opinion on the effect of the solar farms, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service calculated that the projects would displace or kill up to 2,115 desert tortoises, mainly babies and eggs that could be destroyed because they were not seen, reported public television station KCET in October 2013. At the same time, the Fish and Wildlife report said that although about 2,000 desert tortoises occupy the sites, the projects would not harm the species overall, KCET said.

Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/02/20/interior-approves-two-ivanpah-valley-solar-projects-chemehuevi-homelands-153653

[dynoman]

It doesn’t serve Bundy’s cause well to not be accurate in saying things like this: “They want his land.”

That is simply not true, the land isn’t Bundy’s and never was. Accuracy matters, especially when people are saying things like “this is the beginning of CW2.” Stick it to BLM, stick it to Reid, but be accurate and stop acting like Bundy actually owned the land.

[devolve]

if you want to get your cattle back I want a piece of the action

[JoeProBono]

Government vehicles and personnel outside of the Bundy ranch / Cliven and Carol Bundy

[Mr Rogers]

Are you aware this case goes back to 1993?

[S.O.S121.500]

Cannot remember the source right now, but involved petroleum rights/development in the area. Think Whorey Reid’s name was mentioned.

Looking to find the documentation.....

[Jet Jaguar]

Bump

[terycarl]

why would cattle, grazing in a zillion acre field, threaten the tortoise???

[TigersEye]

It's not about a danged tortoise.

The BLM is killing hundreds of desert tortoises.

Desert tortoise faces threat from its own refuge August 25, 2013

Back at the conservation center, a large refrigerator labeled "carcass freezer" hummed in the desert sun as scientists examined the facility's 1,400 inhabitants to find those hearty enough to release into the wild. Officials expect to euthanize more than half the animals in the coming months in preparation for closure at the end of 2014.

More glaring proof that the FedMob is incapable of managing lands or wildlife.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

So have any of the good lefties asked what impact the solar farm will have on the tortoises?

No?

I thought not.

It’s just like their lie that everything they do to enlarge the iron fist of the State is ‘for the children,’ though what they do actually harms the children, they couldn’t care less about the tortoises. That is just a tear-jerk excuse to attack a US citizen and pay off their debt to the ChiComs.

[eeriegeno]

Interesting that the Federal government has the time and manpower to enforce a turtle sanctuary by training attack rifles on US citizens while, in the same general area, cannot or will not stop the illegal alien flood from invading this country?

This country is lost!!!!!!!

[VerySadAmerican]

I have no evidence to support my thinking, but I wouldn’t be surprised to learn the Bundys all voted for Reid.

[Wildbill22]

Sounds like a pest control problem to me.

First turtles, then Feds.

[maxwellsmart_agent]

The Obama administration is making a huge mistake here. The propaganda advantage they are giving the Republicans is really big. The sentiment is with Mr. Bundy. Why do they have to remove the cattle to protect a turtle? The cows are not looking to kill them. They will not even step on them. They do not go for the same food. Where is the conflict?
The administration is losing the argument. If they continue, what they are giving away, they will not get back.

[Abundy]

If I were a betting man I’d be that this entire fiasco is tied to the DOJ refusing FBI assistance to the state corruption investigation that appears to involve Reid and Lee.

There is just too much of Harry Reid, including his spawn, involved with the sale of this land to the ChiComs.