posted at 11:31 am on October 13, 2012 by Erika Johnsen
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: To Read More…….
My Take - This should really be an interesting show. Solar takes up enormous amounts of land. The greenies hate it when there is any kind of development of "public" lands. The animal people will scream that species are being endangered, and the....oh, well...you get the picture. RK
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