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07-03-2008, 08:37 AM
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Solar application moratorium called off
By ERICA WARNER
Associated Press
July 3, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government said Wednesday it is calling off a recently announced moratorium on applications to build solar plants on public lands.
The Bureau of Land Management made the announcement after public opposition to its original decision, reached at the end of May.
The BLM had wanted to put new applications for solar plants on federal land on hold while undertaking a comprehensive review of potential environmental impacts from such plants. That review was not scheduled for completion until May 2010.
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07-03-2008, 09:05 AM
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Re: Solar application moratorium called off
It's a shame they won't be spending a mountain of cash on some phony study before hooking up all those thermocouples. Funny, I thought the whole idea was to disguise pork barrel spending as scientific research .... political science, as it were.
It would be easier just to snake a long extension cord into Algore's huge carbon footprint home in Tennessee and connect the other end to some kind of Potemkin-like green power station ostensibly based on hamster treadmills.
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07-03-2008, 10:46 AM
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Funny, I thought the whole idea was to disguise pork barrel spending as scientific research .... political science, as it were.
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Heck, they are so arrogant and brazen they don't even do that anymore.
I think they believe they've got the American people snowed so well they can get by with anything.
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07-03-2008, 03:48 PM
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Re: Solar application moratorium called off
Ridiculous, this is just nonsense an environmental impact that is going to take 2yrs? Give me a break!
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07-03-2008, 04:49 PM
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Re: Solar application moratorium called off
studies of this sort have been made all over the u.s. for decades. nothing has changed so all they need to do is look at one of them and make up their minds.
as stated, it is nothing more than undisguised pork barrel spending.
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07-03-2008, 05:40 PM
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Re: Solar application moratorium called off
Want to undertake a comprehensive review of potential environmental impacts from solar plants? Install some of those solar panels on my rooftop for your study and do not come back until May 2010.
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07-03-2008, 08:09 PM
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Re: Solar application moratorium called off
More taxpayer money "down the toilet"!
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