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- WiseWeasel, on 07/03/2008, -0/+34The BLM just announced yesterday that they're reversing this decision:
http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/info/newsroom/2008/Jul ... - Thrilltone, on 07/02/2008, -7/+31Watch the head of the BLM when he retires. Instant Fellowship or Board Member on a company controlled by the Oil or Nuclear industries.
Sickening that they shut down Solar for 2 years, right when we need it the most. Study the impact my ass. Study the impact of all that nuclear waste that is piling up you filthy *****. - billbugger, on 07/03/2008, -0/+9what's funny it that the nuclear waste is no longer waste, they've figured out how to use it to produce more energy.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=nuclear+waste ... - hiPpymIck, on 07/02/2008, -3/+11maybe every cloud has a silver lining...
this could be more lucrative than casinos for Native American reservations in those states
the solar industry should have a pow wow with them - CosmicH, on 07/03/2008, -0/+7Why is this being dugg when it was announced that the moratorium will be stopped?
- gn0stik, on 07/03/2008, -0/+7They overturned the moratorium. It's no longer in effect.
http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/07/02/blm-reverses ... - inactive, on 07/03/2008, -1/+5I submitted an article like 6 hours ago about how this decision has been reversed.
- hinchb, on 07/03/2008, -2/+6Yes people that don't read all the news every single day are sad individuals indeed.
- TotalHalibut, on 07/03/2008, -0/+4Decision was reversed, burying as inaccurate.
- UltraDavid, on 07/03/2008, -0/+4^ What in the world could this guy be talking about? Solar panels removing sunlight from the surface? Do you think the nearby towns will be in perpetual darkness because the solar power plant is vacuuming up all the photons? And an oil spill doesn't make the spilled-in area uninhabitable? I mean, it literally makes the affected areas un-live-in-able.
- noahhoward, on 07/03/2008, -2/+5It is a shame they caved in and reversed the moratorium. We NEED to study the inpact of ALL options. We're paving acres and acres of land with glass without any thought to the issues it may cause down the road. Instead of building these massive things now why can't we wait two years to see if the efficiency will approve, why can't we evaluate solar vs. nuclear, nuclear vs. geothermal.
We need to stop picking ***** sides and look for a solution, not an answer, a solution. - TheMachine1, on 07/03/2008, -0/+3Big Coal must have not made the second bribe payments.
- eddruckman, on 07/04/2008, -0/+2It does seem kind of odd the the BLM has given permission to the oil and gas industry to "work" on their land, yet they need a while to think about giving permission for solar development. Bureaucracy? The fix is in? More like who has the deeper lobby pockets. Anyway, just bid'ness as usual.
- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -0/+2The day a solar plant can provide constant 24/7 electricity to a town of 250K and be able to power a factory 24/7 and be able to ramp up out in a beats notice...is when it becomes viable.
Now apply the logic above to all other GREEN power and see what happens. - Chicken, on 07/03/2008, -1/+3Because news at digg is slow.
- yomamaphat, on 07/03/2008, -1/+3This is true, but probably dugg down because most ignorant digg users don't have degrees (I do, 3.9 GPA) in natural resource fields and think they know everything. My advice for these people is to do their own research at least, before they go off spraying about ***** they don't know anything about.
- floorman56, on 07/04/2008, -0/+2It's the desert. There's nothing out here
except
Cooper's Hawk
- Ferruginous hawk
- Marsh Hawk
- Northern Harriers
- Sharp-shinned
- Sandhill Cranes
- Northern Goshawks
- Red-Tailed Hawk
- Barn Owl
- Great Horned Owls
- Long-Eared Owls
- Screech Owl
Black-Necked Stilt
Cactus Wrens
Golden Eagles
Gambel’s Quail
Mourning Doves
Pheasants ring-necked
Ravens
Roadrunners
Rattlesnakes
- The Sidewinder
- Spring Rattles In
- Western Diamondback
Red-spotted Toads
Striped whipsnakes
Treefrogs
Western Banded Gecko
Western Coral Snake
Woodhouse's Toad
Turkeys
Assassin bug
Aphid
Black Widow Spiders .
Brown Recluse Spider
Bees
Carpenter Bee
Honeybees
Killer Bees
Blister Beetle
Cicadas.
Cochineal scale
Dragonflies
Fire Ants
Harvester Ants
Praying Mantis
Pinacate beetle
Herons
-Blue Heron
-Snowy Egret
-Great Egret
and others .... any one if endangered will stop a 100 million dollar project in there tracks - inactive, on 07/03/2008, -0/+2Because Diggiots are slow.
- Adamande, on 07/03/2008, -0/+2Cause in spite of the littering, our kids can still breathe the air. Try sucking on the exhaust pipe of your car and see how good oil makes you feel inside.
- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -1/+3Like how?
Billowing clouds of toxic waste?
Oh, and superkendall, you f'n moron, solar doesn't REMOVE sunlight from the earth. Putting up solar panels doesn't make the world darker or colder.
You are a perfect rightard shill. Uninformed but that doesn't slow you down.
YAY, the GOP managed to slow down adoption of clean energy again!
It's a pretty blatant move, but the right wing knows they have to move fast to keep us stuck on oil. - gn0stik, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1People have been saying that for years. They'll just be digging up that "waste" when the figure out how to use it.
- noahhoward, on 07/04/2008, -0/+1Rushing in blindly is sure to solve everything Swrostmore, of course.
- biotch, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1Thanks for that ... I had no idea.
That issue really pissed me off though - Barackalypse, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1So are some of the users, and not just in the delayed sense.
- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1Vote everyone out of Congress and the White House.
- Barackalypse, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1Wow, an industry complaining about a government descision that impacts it negatively, who would have thought it possible? Also, buried because they already ended the moratorium.
- aaronadms, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1because you wouldn't even know about this story if it weren't for this outdated post. maybe you should post the updated story?
- mpoulin, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1Thanks. I didn't know that. It makes me feel better.
- beauley, on 07/04/2008, -0/+1Inefficient, but they last decades and don't spill and destroy life on our ocean shores and their pollution is endless. No comparison...
- crackrockutah, on 07/04/2008, -0/+1Lets see they lease 80 million acres to big oil, the oil wells take up, on average no more than thirty feet. And there are only several wells per square acre, maybe ten. 3000 square feet for every acre, pollution yes, unsightly, well kind of but nothing terrible. Solar power, inefficient and ugly, large and obtrusive, but yes clean and positive for the environment. For every acre solar power will take up entirely that acre, and will be uglier than ***** to look at when your backpacking, mountain biking, rock climbing, or four wheeling whatever it is you may do. The BLM made the right move. I don't wanna see solar panels in the great american west, not yet. Not when they are so terribly inefficient and obtrusive.
- Culyt, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1I don't know about every single day but it has been a month apparently.
- Duncan3, on 07/03/2008, -1/+2How does having solar in some other place help me? We need everyone to have solar on their own roof, that way most people have little or no electric bill, and power isn't having to be shipped across country.
New monopoly, same as the old... - smotpoker1, on 07/04/2008, -0/+1Fire the MO'FO' that approved the oil but not the Solar.He needs to be investigated for taking lobby bribes.Arrest the lobbyist and execute the scum bags...............Lobbyist = SCUMBAG.
- DirtyBinLV, on 07/03/2008, -1/+1It's the desert. There's nothing out here. Actually there are some cool coyotes and bighorn sheep, but there's just a remarkable amount of empty space. The BLM controls two thirds of Nevada's land, 75,000 square miles of mostly dirt. Desert habitats are not at all threatened because people mostly don't want to live in the 109 degree heat, except stupid Las Vegans.
- superkendall, on 07/03/2008, -3/+3Actually, that's exactly the concern one would have with a large number of solar panels removing sunlight from the surface.
Also oil does not "render the surrounding area uninhabitable" if spilled. It needs to be cleaned up of course, but the area recovers - I was in prince williams a few years ago and it's looking pretty good now. - crackrockutah, on 07/04/2008, -1/+1Its too bad you have no idea what your talking about, the director of the BLM isn't a puppet of the oil tycoons. Go spend some time on that land, it beautiful and wide open. Yes 80 million acres are leased to big oil. Do you honestly think that they are drilling everysquare inch of that land, no. What happens when there are 80 million acres leased to solar power. What do you think will happen to that land. Honestly....humor me a bit. Will they not throw up all the solar pannels they can, completly trashing the wide and open west. They would have no reason not to. Unlike oil there will always be sun where they want. All they want is to protect the land that they are meant to protect. Let the technology become more efficient before you go and give up all this land. Maybe in 10 years half of the land will be needed to produce the same amount of power. Let that happen before you ruin something great.
- samyoungguitar, on 07/03/2008, -2/+2Bro, it's desert. Less sunlight hitting the desert surface my pose an issue, but I guarantee it's not as bad as oil companies having the RIGHT to harass and injure polar bears in their search for new drilling locations (citing and article from last week). The issue here is that current energy producers and major funders of the Republican party will be hit hard when solar farms start producing enough energy to power millions of homes.
- inactive, on 07/04/2008, -0/+0Green power can do that and then some. Power storage is not so hard, on selling excess is not so hard the hard part is taking away the taxes the government suck out of you for every watt you use.
- davidsf1, on 07/04/2008, -0/+0If we use cosmic energy we won't need to depend on the sun during the day.
take a look here:
http://digg.com/general_sciences/Quantum_Theory_Br ... - ScottOrwig, on 07/03/2008, -1/+1"There are 80 million acres on U.S. land leased to the oil and gas industry, and not one acre for solar."
- draven77, on 08/30/2008, -0/+0If only they would require such "extensive studies" for other conventional plants.
Josh Nankivel
http://www.pmstudent.com http://www.svprojectmanagement.com - inactive, on 07/04/2008, -0/+0The whole situation is absurd. The whole basis for Solar power is user self reliance and distribution locally. This removes power from the big boys and they don't like that. Having a min 2KW power supply on every roof with storage and on-sell distribution would make it sustainable and reduce costs overall. The loss in transmission would be almost zero and home owners can on-sell daily power needs to businesses locally. Your government knows this is true and they also know that 90% of power lines criss crossing the country would disappear. The only reason they continue with coal and nuke is to keep supply in one pair of hands and tax the living crap out of it.
- abhir314, on 07/07/2008, -0/+0Yeah, wait for more time, use more oil and risk the extinction of more species than the tortoise alone.
- swrostmore, on 07/03/2008, -3/+2Yeah, we need to carefully assess the environmental impact of glass...and in the meantime SWEET JESUS, DRILL FOR OIL OFFSHORE BEFORE ITS TO LATE!!!!! KATRINA DIDN'T CAUSE ANY OIL SPILLS, ITS PERFECTLY SAFE!!!! COMMUNIST CHINA IS ALREADY DRILLING OFFSHORE IN CUBA!!!
- Revolutionista, on 07/03/2008, -2/+1BLM should be up with torches and pitchforks right now going after these pricks.
- 2Renew, on 07/03/2008, -1/+0Why not use barren land to develop alternative energy? What the hell else is it being used for, tourism?
- BoondocksSexy, on 07/03/2008, -1/+0It is amazing to see how in a time like this the government is turing away from public interest, or maybe not amazing but predictable. If they are having issues going through the applications maybe they should just hire more people! I think in this time its definately appreciated. Man lets not have the 1970's economy repeat itself!
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