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!
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