Perhaps. But I’ll go for the other explanation. When Dingy Harry and the Chinese company were starting to get dragged in by people doing the work that the media should have been doing all along, the Company ran like a cockroach. So Harry called it off.
You’re looking left instead of right. This is phase one of a bigger plan just 35 miles from the ranch.
http://www.infowars.com/flashback-sen-reid-breaks-ground-for-nevada-solar-farm-near-bundy-ranch/
I haven’t heard too much from Harry about the Koch brothers lately.
Here’s the BLM’s own playbook;
http://www.blm.gov/pgdata/etc/medialib/blm/wo/blm_library/tech_notes.Par.29872.File.dat/TN_444.pdf
Read more at http://libertyunyielding.com/2014/04/12/feds-want-relocate-desert-tortoise-chinese-solar-farm-sponsored-harry-reid/#rQisk9om3HlQ8alc.99
There is SOMETHING here that Reid and/or Chicoms do not want exposed. I believe that is more likely the reason they backed down and the documents are the reason they were spooked. I think perhaps this is just the tip of a stinky iceberg.
Didn’t need to be “near” the Bundy ranch.
Reid needed Bundy’s land and grazing to offset the turtle habitat lost by the sale of the land to the Chinese firm.
Unable to find customers to buy government mandated green energy?
I smell enough BS to suspect they needed all of Bundy’s cattle to gather that much!
As for the price of the land sale, that’s common. I knew of one company that leased land and buildings from a city for one dollar per year (IIRC). The city wanted the revenues from manufacturing.
And the land in the ENN deal? That was County-owned land—not federal.
The place is a county-owned (not federal) piece of desert with not much more than casinos nearby.
March 2014 picture:
(From RIGHT to left) US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid joins Moapa Band of Paiutes Chairwoman Aletha Tom, First Solar CEO James Hughes, LADWP director of power system planning and development Randy Howard, and the Moapa Band of Paiutes Tribal Council to break ground on the 250 MW Moapa Southern Paiute Solar Project. (Photo: Business Wire)
The public land in question was never a proposed site for the actual solar project of the Chinese or the First Solar project that has broken ground.
And yes, the deal died long ago. It’s old news. Local power companies weren’t interested. The land was owned by the County—not the federal government. Too bad about the lost opportunity for hundreds of manufacturing jobs.
Plan for Laughlin solar energy plant fizzles; Clark County regains control of land
http://www.reviewjournal.com/business/energy/plan-laughlin-solar-energy-plant-fizzles-clark-county-regains-control-land
June 14, 2013
Solar project goes dark
http://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/editorials/solar-project-goes-dark
June 21, 2013
The mentioned deal may be defunct, but I bet there is another deal right behind the defunct deal.
Reids are corrupt and will do anything to get their way.
Mitigation bank land need be in no spatial relation to an impacted site. I’ve seen A Certain large western states highway department “wetland mitigation” banks created by drilling $50,000 wells that use $2000 of electricity a month in the middle of the desert, to be turned on in “perpetuity” when the need for wet replacement acreage arises. No mention of what happens to all the critters that get used to it when there is either a power crisis or failure.
(We were paid close to $5000 to mobilize out to the location to clean up a motor oil stain the size of a bath mat on the sand an cart off an old refrigerator)
That iss the Laughlin project. Completely different than the Dry Lake/Gold Bute project