Like I’ve said, Warmists are all excited for action in theory. Once it comes to practice? There’s always a Reason
In the Mojave Desert, Shannon Salter walks past creosote bushes and Mojave yucca, the plant’s spiky, dagger-like leaves sticking up toward the sky.
Wearing a heavy down jacket and a floppy hat, she comes up to a fence line and stares at the construction of a project she fought hard to stop.
Salter, a poet and part-time teacher, has been camping since October near the Yellow Pine Solar Project, about a 20-minute drive from Pahrump. She was a staunch opponent to the project, wanting to protect the more than 90,000 old-growth yucca and desert ecosystem.
Once it got approved, she decided to stick around to watch the bulldozers clear the 3,000 acres of land to make way for a large-scale solar field that will provide power for 100,000 homes in California.
“I’m there making a presence in the valley,” she said. “I’m keeping watch. I wanted somebody to bear witness to the destruction. … I don’t think people realize the enormity of it.
Once the projects get the green light, the Warmists/enviro-weenies always try and shut them down
Near Beatty, a town of around 900 residents about two hours away from Las Vegas, there’s a slew of proposed solar projects that the residents fear will alter the views and drive away tourists.
There are six projects around Beatty that would cover thousands of acres, said Erika Gerling, a Beatty resident and chair of the Beatty Advisory Board. Beatty, known as the “gateway to Death Valley,” has been working for 10 years to promote itself as a recreation destination, Gerling said.
“Tourism is a huge thing for us,” Gerling said. “It’s our bread and butter.”
Someone has to pay for this, right? Besides, I thought all these green projects would bring jobs and prosperity? No?
“It’s frightening,” Gerling said. The projects are in very early stages, having been submitted to the Public Utilities Commission. “We want to preserve the history and the nature of our area. That’s what we’re for.”
“We are not against renewable energy,” she said. “We are not against solar energy. We are just not in favor of the location of these projects.”
So, where do they want them?
The desert also sequesters carbon, and when heavy machinery disturbs and lifts the desert soil, that carbon is released back into the atmosphere, Cunningham said. And with many projects proposed in the Mojave Desert with gaps in between, conservationists worry the ecosystem will be fragmented.
“There’s got to be better alternatives than destroying these ecosystems,” Cunningham said.
Name it. Their support of renewables always hits a wall when it is in their own backyard. And the piece continues on and on with all the projects that these people are against. Surprise!
HAHAHAHHA!. It is literally a dry desert with no redeemable value for anyone. Those sorry saps just have the bad luck of living there. Give them fair market value (near zero) for their properties and a bus ticket to Tennessee. They will be much better off.
It’s a capitalist concept that everything has a cost, so it’s hardly a surprise that socialists think that
global warmingclimate change can be fought without it costing anything.There will always be somebody who doesn’t want a ‘renewable energy’ project in his back yard!
A town of fewer than 1,000 people, huh? Sounds like an ideal place for such a project, in that a smaller number of people will be adversely affected. Our western deserts are easily the most ideal places for solar farms, with fewer trees to be removed, and more fully sunny days throughout the year.
So, suck it up, warmunists, and don’t combitch when these projects are in your back yards!
Gas-o-weenies like Mr Teach, and also the environmentalists, must understand that all supplies of energy have both good a bad qualities. The pretense that coal-mining, oil drilling, fracking, oil rigs and tankers have little or no impact on the environment is risible – we’ve just become inured to the environmental degradations. Additionally, burning fossil fuels releases gigatons of CO2 into the atmosphere causing the rapid warming of our only Earth!
So, suck it up fossilists, and don’t bitch about the gradual transition from fossil fuels to renewables.
What rapid warming, J? Please show you’re math
AJill,
There’s much more evidence for rapid warming than for trump’s “victory”. LOL.
Would you describe the current warming period? Please show your arithmetic.
“There’s much more evidence of rapid warming than Trump’s victory. I see, there is, but you’re unable to show it. But just to let you know, as long as you’re doing irrelevant comparisons, you forget to bring in “racists” and “white supremacists” into the conversations. Anyway, this is like shooting fish in a barrel….. https://twitter.com/jimfish56837379/status/1488337602147241984?s=12
Your
My brother worked on one of those big solar projects in the California desert, supervising the various contractors. He told me one time when there was one guy running a back hoe with literally seven other people watching him. There was someone protecting the desert tortoise, another protecting Indian artifacts, another for the plants, another for the water, etc. etc. etc. None of these people actually volunteer but are paid and included in the job overhead. Apparently, being an “activist’ or an “environmentalist” pays very well.
You’re still not denying that the Earth is warming are you? You may be the last con to do so!! Even after Teach became convinced you were still in denial.
More twits to make your case? Why not try to explain it yourself?
We can tell you never tried shooting fish.
So, still no evidence? We’re all shocked! By the way, where did I deny, warming? We were discussing the rate of warming, not warming, remember? But nice try at deflection..