Posted on 08/30/2024 1:16:53 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
The Bureau of Land Management has published details of a plan to make millions of acres of public lands across the western U.S. available for development of solar power.
The Western Solar Plan, which revises guidelines from more than a decade ago, was published in the Federal Register on August 30, 2024. The BLM said the plan would make 31 million acres of public lands (that is 48,437 square miles!) available for potential solar energy development.
The new proposal seeks to bring solar projects to 11 states. The plan would place development closer to existing or planned power transmission lines, and also looks at siting projects near land that has been previously accessed.
The updated proposal published Friday adds five states—Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming—to an original six where land has been considered for development. The original states are Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah.
“The updated Western Solar Plan is a responsible, pragmatic strategy for developing solar energy on our nation’s public lands that supports national clean energy goals and long-term national energy security,” BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning said in a statement.
Ben Norris, VP of regulatory affairs at the Solar Energy Industries Association said, “The Bureau of Land Management opened 31 million acres of federal lands to renewable energy development, accepting many of SEIA’s recommendations to strike a better balance between its conservation and clean energy deployment goals. For over 12 years SEIA has advocated for leveling the playing field for renewables and increasing public land access for solar and storage development. While we’re still reviewing the details, we’re pleased to see that BLM listened to much of the solar industry’s feedback … fossil fuels have access to over 80 million acres of public land, 2.5 times the amount of public land available for solar.”
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Meanwhile, other Globull Climate Hoax wackos are pushing seeding the atmosphere to increase clouds. So...... More cloud cover for the solar energy????
I see no shortage of hail beat up vehicles in Deadwood, So. Dak.
It’s sad.
As before, my research indicates that Cheyenne, Wyo. is ~5x worse.
But the toxic nature of solar panels makes their environmental impacts worse than just the quantity of waste. Solar panels are delicate and break easily. When they do, they instantly become hazardous, and classified as such, due to their heavy metal contents. Hence, they are classified as hazardous waste. The authors note that this classification carries with it a string of expensive restrictions — hazardous waste can only be transported at designated times and via select routes, etc.When I was doing field service engineering in industrial and utility plants in the 70s, I worked in a couple of plants that had been disassembled, shipped and reassembled at a new location. Conventional power plants are almost entirely made out of steel which is easily recycled. The value of the glass in used solar panels is zero!
Oh, who forgot about hail?
Simple as that.
They are going to kill millions of birds.
BLM land is federal land and the federal govt is responsible for its care and use. It also sells parcels to the public from time to time. The common uses in the past have been mining and cattle grazing.
In short, only small portions of the 31 million acres would ever be developed, under the best of conditions.
Destroying 31 Million Acres of U.S. Public Lands
SNOW HAIL BURNING TREES?
RIGHT NOW-—THERE ARE MILLIONS OF ACRES YOU CANNOT EVEN RIDE A HORSE IN “BECAUSE YOU MIGHT DAMAGE THE ECO-SYSTEM”.
RIGHT NOW-—THERE ARE MILLIONS OF ACRES YOU CANNOT EVEN RIDE A HORSE IN “BECAUSE YOU MIGHT DAMAGE THE ECO-SYSTEM”.
The same ecosystem that saw buffalos cover the land from horizon to horizon, herds that would take days to pass by.
The wind-farms offshore are already falling apart so fail on land now
IT takes FOSSIL FUELS TO EVEN CRETE GLASS IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!!!
NEED 2200 degrees to melt the silica sand.
CREATE
AUTO CORRECT !!!!
Who is going to patrol those miles and police the theft of acres of solar panels and miles of copper wiring?
I want to see the Impact Statement, and how far the environmental movement will debase themselves to say it’s OK.
I’m sure environmentalists will absolutely LOVE a solar panel covered planet. What an atrocity!
Of course they are... Feinstein planned well...
Or the next hail storm (I remember one that had baseball sized hail and killed cattle when I was young). I am sure that would destroy the panels.
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