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U.S. Solar Energy Industry Blasts Recent Government Decision
enn.com — Leaders in the U.S. solar energy industry blasted the Bureau of Land Management's decision to put a freeze on applications for new solar projects on public land in six Western states, in order to conduct an 'extensive' study looking at the environmental, social & economic impacts of solar energy in the United States.
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- 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 ...- 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.
- Fubarepublic, 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.
- Beanbones, on 07/03/2008, -8/+3Yes, that guy MUST be in cahoots with Big Oil! Cahoots! Cahoots, I say! No, it's ab-so-lutely impossible that there could be any other reason behind this outrageous decision, no sir!
It certainly could not be that they're trying to evaluate whether it'd actually make economic sense to push photovoltaics, certainly not, no way, nuh-uh. They're probably out there clubbing baby seals as we speak, those sick, sick bastards!
Sickening, that's what it is! I am outraged! This is my outraged face right here! Welcome to Outrageville, population: me!
/sarcasm - 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 ... - 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.
- 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.
- 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 - 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 ...- billbugger, on 07/03/2008, -4/+3i was about to say that. i guess digg (users) don't pay attention to timelines very well.
- hinchb, on 07/03/2008, -2/+6Yes people that don't read all the news every single day are sad individuals indeed.
- Culyt, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1I don't know about every single day but it has been a month apparently.
- mpoulin, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1Thanks. I didn't know that. It makes me feel better.
- TheMachine1, on 07/03/2008, -0/+3Big Coal must have not made the second bribe payments.
- biotch, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1Thanks for that ... I had no idea.
That issue really pissed me off though
- billbugger, on 07/03/2008, -4/+3i was about to say that. i guess digg (users) don't pay attention to timelines very well.
- CosmicH, on 07/03/2008, -0/+7Why is this being dugg when it was announced that the moratorium will be stopped?
- Chicken, on 07/03/2008, -1/+3Because news at digg is slow.
- Barackalypse, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1So are some of the users, and not just in the delayed sense.
- AsylumAleikum, on 07/03/2008, -0/+2Because Diggiots are slow.
- 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?
- Chicken, on 07/03/2008, -1/+3Because news at digg is slow.
- rationalbeats, on 07/03/2008, -1/+5I submitted an article like 6 hours ago about how this decision has been reversed.
- Revolutionista, on 07/03/2008, -2/+1BLM should be up with torches and pitchforks right now going after these pricks.
- Kanele, on 07/03/2008, -3/+1breaking news, little profit industry blasts a decision of the government in the interest of a higher profit industry
- TotalHalibut, on 07/03/2008, -0/+4Decision was reversed, burying as inaccurate.
- 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... - kahakauai, on 07/03/2008, -3/+1our government never ceases to amaze me lol
- bushout, on 07/03/2008, -3/+1Shame terms like "blasts" can't be taken literally.
- cejones, on 07/03/2008, -3/+1Someone should do a Google search and find out who the Director of the Bureau of Land Management is... and then call him to let them know what a bonehead decision this is.
Oh wait:
Director Jim Caswell 202-208-3801- Nemisys, on 07/03/2008, -1/+0hahaha... I did the exact same thing then tried to find out if he was republican. but came across this.
"Caswell was nominated by President George Bush"
source: http://www.pocatelloshops.com/blogs/ag.php?id=3385
Suprise Suprise.
***** bush.
- Nemisys, on 07/03/2008, -1/+0hahaha... I did the exact same thing then tried to find out if he was republican. but came across this.
- 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!
- 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.- 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!!!
- noahhoward, on 07/04/2008, -0/+1Rushing in blindly is sure to solve everything Swrostmore, of course.
- 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.
- 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!!!
- kookbutt, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1Vote everyone out of Congress and the White House.
- 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.
- nastronomical, 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.- Fubarepublic, 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- bigsteve3OOO, on 07/03/2008, -1/+1y not use nuclear power...proven safe and cost effective.
- 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."
- 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.
- 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...
- 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 ... - 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.
- 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.
- draven77, on 08/30/2008, -0/+0If only they would require such "extensive studies" for other conventional plants.
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