Nevada Views: Energy development poses challenge to [Nevada] wildlife habitat
Wind and solar development could be very destructive to Nevada’s wildlife- Energy development poses challenge to wildlife habitat. By Larry Johnson. Las Vegas Review-Journal. And unsaid is the...
View ArticleGoogle Invests $168 Million In Ivanpah Solar Thermal Plant
Project already blading Mojave desert habitat Google announces its private investment in Brightsource Energy, the proponent of the controversial Ivanpah Solar Thermal Project: Google Solar Project:...
View ArticleBLM halts some construction at Ivanpah Power Plant
Threshold Number of ESA Protected Desert Tortoise Killed In Construction of Solar Thermal Plant We just received notice that the BLM has suspended construction of some of the the Ivanpah Solar Thermal...
View ArticleIvanpah solar project would disturb thousands of desert tortoises
Desert Tortoise, Dr. Michael Connor The Ivanpah solar thermal project consists of 5.4 square miles of high quality habitat for the Endangered Species Act protected desert tortoise, a fact that...
View ArticleRenewable Energy Industry CEO looks to the future
Suggests government policy/subsidies – not free market – give wildlife conflicting, utility-scale projects an edge over distributed generation Desert Tortoise © Dr. Michael Connor, WWP NRG Energy CEO...
View ArticleSolar energy exec tells Congress: BLM, Fish & Wildlife a hindrance
Centralized corporate solar energy is green? not a chance! Story on testimony by Frank de Rosa, First Solar executive. Arizona Daily Star. This guy sounds just like an oil company executive with his...
View ArticleAre solar companies learning it’s smart to get along with conservationists?
Some current cooperation with the Sierra Club suggests so- Solar companies need to do offsets to reduce harms, and hopefully at times they can improve wildlife habitat. Here is a recent hopeful story....
View ArticleDeveloping the Carrizo Plain
Another Solar Development, Another Lost Landscape ? the Carrizo Plain | Creative Commons photo by Bill Bouton Chris Clarke gives a remarkable account of another landscape that has found its way into...
View Article“Drill baby drill” isn’t an energy policy, it’s more cultural resentment
“Energy independence” has been the Republican energy policy since 1974- Americans have a bad case of Alzheimer’s when it come to knowledge or remembrance of energy policy. Politicians usually give...
View ArticlePrecedent-setting and unexpected. Obama and Romney answer science questions...
Talk about the need for a presidential candidate science debate leads somewhere- Back in 2008 there was mounting concern that science had always been left out of the presidential debates. This concern...
View ArticleValley Fever, growing threat to SW desert hikers, hunters, nature buffs,...
Human activities tearing up the Mojave and Sonoran deserts set loose potentially lethal spores- Residents of the desert areas of Arizona, California, Utah and New Mexico generally become aware that...
View ArticleAP breaks story that Obama Administration won’t prosecute wind farm eagle deaths
News on wind and solar farms keeps getting worse- It doesn’t have to be that solar and wind power alternative energy has to be hard on people and animals. However, the way they are being rolled out is...
View ArticleHere is the “notorious” missing BLM page connecting to Harry Reid (not)
This is a big laugh, but does have important info about Bundy’s rangeland harm- For those who don’t want to discuss rangeland, wildlife, trespassing cattle, rare animals like tortoises, or Cliven...
View ArticleIvanpah thermal solar power plant produces “death rays” torching many birds
Roast bird record at Mojave solar plant even worse than predicted? Plant workers call them “streamers.” Birds that fly through the beams of concentrated sunlight at the massive Ivanpah solar plant near...
View ArticleFalling oil prices to benefit wildlife?
Will the new, low petroleum prices cut the legs off tar sands and oil shale? Almost every American now sees that the price of oil has plummeted. Driving by a gas station makes seeing it easy. Gasoline...
View ArticleShould federal public lands be prioritized for renewable energy development?
The Wilderness Society just teamed up with Yale University to release a report promoting renewable energy development on public lands, and like the recent Michael Moore documentary Planet of the...
View ArticlePrecedent-setting and unexpected. Obama and Romney answer science questions...
Talk about the need for a presidential candidate science debate leads somewhere- Back in 2008 there was mounting concern that science had always been left out of the presidential debates. This concern...
View ArticleValley Fever, growing threat to SW desert hikers, hunters, nature buffs,...
Human activities tearing up the Mojave and Sonoran deserts set loose potentially lethal spores- Residents of the desert areas of Arizona, California, Utah and New Mexico generally become aware that...
View ArticleAP breaks story that Obama Administration won’t prosecute wind farm eagle deaths
News on wind and solar farms keeps getting worse- It doesn’t have to be that solar and wind power alternative energy has to be hard on people and animals. However, the way they are being rolled out is...
View ArticleHere is the “notorious” missing BLM page connecting to Harry Reid (not)
This is a big laugh, but does have important info about Bundy’s rangeland harm- For those who don’t want to discuss rangeland, wildlife, trespassing cattle, rare animals like tortoises, or Cliven...
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