So how Green is Green?

Alan · Mar 3, 2011

Here we have the odd situation of Enviromentalists against Enviromentalists. Sometimes you just can't make anybody happy. Personally, I find this rather amusing. It's a court battle over a Solar Powered generation station in the Kalifornia desert.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/24/business/energy-environment/24solar.html

But many of the areas planned for solar development — including the five projects being challenged — are in fragile landscapes and are home to desert tortoises, bighorn sheep and other protected flora and fauna. The government sped through some of the required environmental reviews, and opponents are challenging those reviews as inadequate.

“There’s no good reason to go into these pristine wilderness areas and build huge solar farms, and less reason for the taxpayers to be subsidizing it,” said Cory J. Briggs, a lawyer representing an American Indian group that has sued the United States Interior Department and the Bureau of Land Management to stop five of the solar thermal plants. “The impacts to Native American culture and the environment are extraordinary.”
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Just Piddling · Mar 3, 2011

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So how Green is Green?

Alan Proud Infidel

Just Piddling .

Another Odumbazz green company bite the dust.

Green beer is on!!

Green Berets on 2nd Amendment

Green Pumpkin/Hot Craw

This is Green Gizzard

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