Blythe Project: Biggest Solar Power Plant On U.S. Public Lands Approved By Obama Administration

[Tx4obama]

Source: AP (via HuffPo)

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has approved a thousand-megawatt solar project on federal land in southern California, the largest solar project ever planned on U.S. public lands.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar hailed the $6 billion Blythe Solar Power Project, to be built in the Mojave Desert near Blythe, Calif., as the start of a boom in solar power on federal lands.

"Today is a day that makes me excited about the nation's future," Salazar said Monday at a news conference. "This project shows in a real way how harnessing our own renewable resources can create good jobs here at home."

The Blythe project, being developed by Solar Millennium, a German solar developer, is slated for more than 7,000 acres of public land near the Arizona border, some 225 miles east of Los Angeles.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/25/biggest-solar-project-in-_n_773655.html

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Blythe Project: Biggest Solar Power Plant On U.S. Public Lands Approved By Obama Administration For Mojave Desert, California

[iandhr]

1. K&R

[SHRED]

2. Oh just great

More centralized energy production. Let's all cheer that we will remain beholden to corporate fat-cats for our energy needs.

The answer would have been to retrofit roof tops and give the home owner the break.
But that would be a Liberal/Left thing to do and God knows we must worship the Corporatists and their centralization wet dreams.


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[Psephos]

3. sad but true n/t

[quakerboy]

4. A question

Are not both needed? For instance, If one lives in a multistory building, surrounded by other multistory buildings(so not able to make full use of the sides for light collection), I feel fairly certain you cannot supply within your building the complete energy needs of the building.


However, you are right. I have serious doubts that this public land and project will remain publicly owned for long after completion. Betcha the first Repub admin to come along sells it to the best connected bidder. Or maybe before then.

[MX96391]

5. Good decision by Obama