Good news: Interior all set to fast-track solar projects on public lands

[Valin]

Hot Air:

Erika Johnsen

10/13/12

 

Well, that’s a relief! Even while the Obama administration continues to dither about finishing those environmental reviews on ostensible-but-still-elusive proof of groundwater contamination from fracking,; and continues to deny oil and gas companies access to America’s own wildly abundant resources; and owns over a third of the United States’ surface area which puts the land to less productive uses than private property owners and businesses could and more often than not engenders environmental degradation while costing American taxpayers a heap; at least we can take a small bit of comfort in knowing that the Department of Interior, in what I’m sure is their completely dispassionate and enlightened wisdom, has recently expended their bureaucratic energies on finalizing a program to quickly review-and-greenlight solar energy projects on public lands across the Western states. From The Hill:

 

The Interior Department set aside about 285,000 acres for commercial-scale solar in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah. The federal government will offer incentives for development, help facilitate access to existing or planned electric infrastructure and ease the permitting process in the 17 zones.

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Who cares that the government’s dabbling in solar and green energy has produced myriad failures at taxpayer expense; that even some environmentalist groups think this could be a bad idea that will mess up pristine and fragile areas and actually cause a greater carbon release that it purports to save; and that solar power has demonstrated no real propensity to cheaply and efficiently provide mass energy while fitting into our infrastructure.

 

 

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[Geee]

When we drive to Florida we go from one tip of Illinois to another, driving all the way through the state. The last four years we have seen many a farmers field replaced with large windmills. This time it had almost doubled from the last time 6 months ago. Of course they were probably paid for with 'stimulus' funds from all of us. The blades on those things are enormous. I wondered to Mr. Geee, that this was tornado country and what one of those things would do as a projectile from a tornado. Later we actually saw a truck pass us with one blade on a flat bed on the back, and it was much bigger than I had first imagined.

[Valin]

When we drive to Florida we go from one tip of Illinois to another, driving all the way through the state. The last four years we have seen many a farmers field replaced with large windmills. This time it had almost doubled from the last time 6 months ago. Of course they were probably paid for with 'stimulus' funds from all of us. The blades on those things are enormous. I wondered to Mr. Geee, that this was tornado country and what one of those things would do as a projectile from a tornado. Later we actually saw a truck pass us with one blade on a flat bed on the back, and it was much bigger than I had first imagined.

 

Obviously you have not heard for the force fields surrounding the wind generators, that protects them from such unfortunate incidences.

[Valin]

Danish Wind Turbine Company That Received Over $50 Million In Stimulus Lays Off 800 Workers

Tony Lee

13 Oct 2012

 

A Danish wind turbine company whose subsidiaries received over $50 million in U.S. stimulus dollars announced on Friday it has cut more than 800 jobs in the United States and Canada this year and may be forced to lay off another 800 employees in North America.

 

This is yet another green energy company that received wasteful stimulus funds and does not even have anything to show for it.

 

According to Reuters, Vestas, the wind turbine maker, saw its order intake go down by 24 percent during the first half of the year.

 

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h/t IowaGranny