Posted on 07/01/2023 7:50:13 AM PDT by rktman
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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