Posted on 07/01/2023 7:50:13 AM PDT by rktman
Located just about halfway between Los Angeles and Phoenix, Desert Center, California, was once bustling with business.
In the ’20s, the local Desert Center Cafe was open 24-7 with customers filtering in and out as they made their way back and forth between the two iconic cities. According to The Desert Sun in Palm Springs, the cafe’s motto was “We lost our keys, we can’t close!”
Today, the Desert Center Cafe — along with the rest of the buildings on the dingy Desert Center main street — is abandoned and dilapidated.
Other than the small ghost town at its center, what’s left of Desert Center is the handful of small communities surrounding it.
Even absent the historic downtown, area locals had much to be thankful for. The landscape, for example, is beautiful. You can stare out at the endless desert, examine the lush palo verde and aged ironwood trees or even spot local treasures, such as the rare species of desert tortoises and sacred indigenous sites.
Thanks to the construction of massive solar farms, all of the above are under threat, along with one more resource locals likely treasure above almost all else: the water supply.
No More Water John Beach owns a bit of land in the middle of the desolate Desert Center. At first, it’s unlikely Beach thought the area’s local solar project — a product of the Obama administration’s push to scale solar energy development on public lands — would have much of an effect on his property.
Beach’s land doesn’t even have a home on it, only two palm trees, both of which he has been watering for 15 years.
(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournal.com ...
Imagine if an evil oil company get a permit for the same Federal land and used up all the water..... think there maybe an issue? Think the MSM would be doing story after story, day in, day out? Think politicians would make their bones on this issue?
I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
YeeeHawww!
-PJ
This is a foreseeable consequence of treehugger policies, just like uncontrolled (not uncontrollable) wildfires are a result of not managing the underbrush.
For decades CaCaLand and neighboring states have taken a knee to treehuggers and not built water storage facilities. The area is a desert — drought and flood, for millennia. If you want a civilization in a desert you must catch and store water to get over the drought years. For decades CaCaLand did that, then the politicos sold out to the treehuggers. So, as the population doubled the reservoirs were drained. Why expect otherwise? Every civilization needs water. To compensate for such gov’mt inaction and hostility, folks living there drilled wells. What else would you expect?
Oh, waitaminnit, leftists (AKA commie trash nowadays) cannot (will not) plan. Beyond their IQ.
What a weak article. There is no explanation of why water usage went up. They mention construction requires water and they imply water is needed to wash construction dust off the panels once construction is complete, but that is not an on-going water need.
What was the solar energy project using the water for after construction (concrete and cleaning) completed? Why would their Environmental Impact papers not produce or project the project’s own hypocrisy of local destruction? /redundant question
I’m not starting a Western Journal account to read the article. How did placing solar panels cause the groundwater to dry up?
“But at least we Care About Da Erf!”
Where is the photo of a kid sticking a metal knife into an electric socket? “When you have not thought your diabolical plan all the way through.....”
Account? I got straight to the article without an account. Weird.
My Safari browser made Western Journal harangue me about buying an account. I tried Brave browser and it let me right in.
But don’t waste your time trying to read it. It’s an absolutely worthless, meandering, poor organized, illogical article than never explains how a solar farm caused water to dry up. It briefly mentions that the panels had to be cleaned of dust after construction was completed. That’s it.
I read the article in archive.ph.
That site opens up all these blocked sites.
But, alas, there is no explanation of why the solar farms use up all the groundwater.
Three idiocies for “sustainability”: electric cars, wind turbines, and solar “farms”.
Solar farms affect groundwater??
I would hugely question that connection.
When I click the link in your post, it says Exclusive Content — Membership Required. No thanks.
Guess more details from the writer would have helped eh? 😳👍
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