What the DI misses, I think, is that while the desert may be of 'little importance' to wildlife, it has a whole lot of importance for humans to recreate. As for conservation, I'd care for 150 turtles for a whole lot less than 22 large.
If a Liberal wanted to, they could put an end to this project immediately. But, since its the liberals who want this, 22.5 million acres will be covered with windmills and solar panels.
Ahhh liberals. The stupidest most emotionally driven and retartet morons ever to populate the country. The land is only useless to everyone but liberals. If some farmer wanted to build a stock pond it would be shut down immediately. If a homeowner wanted to collect rain water in a barrel he would be fined. If a rancher accidently kills a bald eagle he would be thrown in federal prison for the rest of his life.
BUT, companies like GE and Vestas lobby and bribe the federal government to install bird chopping eyesores on land that is off limits to everyone else liberals wet their drawers.
“on land considered of little importance to wildlife and other natural resources. ”
Oh really?
Millions and millions of animals, fish, snakes, tarantula and a jillion other life forms live in tbe desert.
Aren’t they in peril by these dumb projects that produce so little in return compared to coal, gas and nuclear?
What an asinine statement.
There are frickin coyote, rabbits, fox, deer, goats, eagles, osprey, butterflies that live in these areas and it is proven they are slaughtered unnecessarily by wind and solar devices and farms which dismember, blind and cook then to say the least.
Further, these are public lands which will be off limits to the public to support the interests of very poorly run “private” so called businesses.
And we can’t complete a pipeline from Canada to Cushing, OK?
That thing just stands there doing nothing with demonstrably less impact to the environment and does not remove millions of acres from use by the citizens who own the land, as well private land owners.
Jerk off liars.
How much of this "worthless" government land used to be productive, private land?
Do not fear; this grandiose project will never be completed. It is simply Sylyndra on a bigger scale, making it possible for the Left to funnel a trillion dollars to the economy of the largest Democrat state heading for bankruptcy. California’s failed welfare state would be Exhibit A to the world that Democrats are incapable, so it must be put on the life support of federal funding camouflaged as environmentalism.
Need to find a bug or a worm or something that lives there and scream bloody murder.
A multi million acre sand box for liberals to farm taxes.
Should we ever be subjected to an EMP event by nuclear weapon, the sharp and power rise time of that pulse will instantly destroy every PV solar cell within direct line of sight of it, and even beyond.
On the other hand, it is impossible to know what specific equipment of conventional utility power infrastructure will be damaged and which will not.
Because of this vulnerability, it is just imprudent to have too much of utility power supplied by PV solar.
What Californicate should do (no that’s not misspelled) is to immediately close all power plants within their stare and terminate all power being delivered from power plants out of state and then rely SOLELY upon solar power for their electrical needs.
They could set the example for he world and we could finally get rid of the earth destroying gas, oil and coal generating plants that are destroying this fragile earth.
Of course they would have to adjust their living habits to coincide with the wind and night and day issues with the solar daily cycles, but hey! They can adjust to riding animals for transportation, stopping all activities when it gets dark or the wind stops blowing, and simply “going back in time” as all electrical apparatus and their results (like light bulbs not working as the electrical system shuts down for the day) so they can really, really enjoy living like “cave men” and actually think they are saving the world.
The next step is to isolate California from infecting the rest of the states by building an ELECTRIC fence around the state to prevent any more Californicatians from tainting the rest of the population of the U.S..
Of course, the fence will be electrified by standard gas, oil and coal fired power plants so that 24 hour power would always be available.
/sarc
You can bet your a$$ if someone wanted to build a nuclear power plant on that land the wildlife and other natural resources would not be "considered of little importance".