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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
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 Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 11:31 am Post subject: moratorium on new solar projects |
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...pending environmental impact assessment...
http://www.nytimes.com
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DENVER � Faced with a surge in the number of proposed solar power plants, the federal government has placed a moratorium on new solar projects on public land until it studies their environmental impact, which is expected to take about two years.
The Bureau of Land Management says an extensive environmental study is needed to determine how large solar plants might affect millions of acres it oversees in six Western states � Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah.
But the decision to freeze new solar proposals temporarily, reached late last month, has caused widespread concern in the alternative-energy industry, as fledgling solar companies must wait to see if they can realize their hopes of harnessing power from swaths of sun-baked public land, just as the demand for viable alternative energy is accelerating.
�It doesn�t make any sense,� said Holly Gordon, vice president for legislative and regulatory affairs for Ausra, a solar thermal energy company in Palo Alto, Calif. �The Bureau of Land Management land has some of the best solar resources in the world. This could completely stunt the growth of the industry.�
Much of the 119 million surface acres of federally administered land in the West is ideal for solar energy, particularly in Arizona, Nevada and Southern California, where sunlight drenches vast, flat desert tracts.
Galvanized by the national demand for clean energy development, solar companies have filed more than 130 proposals with the Bureau of Land Management since 2005. They center on the companies� desires to lease public land to build solar plants and then sell the energy to utilities. |
And oil hit just shy of 141$ today. |
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Hyeon Een
Joined: 24 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 11:58 am Post subject: |
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Out of interest, on purely selfish grounds, how hard is it to get a job on a project like this which is going to take 2 years? I mean, a 2 year job funded by the federal government to check this shit out probably has all the other kinds of perks a federal government job has. I bet they get free lunches and probably only end up working about 2 hours a day. (I've seen where government money goes..).
So, how's a fella get a job like inspecting this shit? And will they hire a brit if I ask nice? |
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