Posted on Jan 21, 2023
'It’s Armageddon': Media Silent on Biden Admin Plan to Snatch Public Land For Solar Farms
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Once again, we have unequal treatment
In December 2022, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced that her department would expedite plans to build solar energy farms on up to 100 million acres of untouched public land in five Western states, in a bid to "tackle climate change." The announcement has garnered little to no national attention, save for the occasional report that the Biden administration is expanding renewable energy production. National outlets took a far more critical approach to Trump-era land use proposals. "Where Will Trump’s War on Public Lands End?" the New Yorker wondered in 2017. The following year, a New York Times headline lamented that a "Trump Drilling Plan Threatens 9 Million Acres of Sage Grouse Habitat." The coverage gap indicates a media bias, not just against Trump, but also for green energy.
In December 2022, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced that her department would expedite plans to build solar energy farms on up to 100 million acres of untouched public land in five Western states, in a bid to "tackle climate change." The announcement has garnered little to no national attention, save for the occasional report that the Biden administration is expanding renewable energy production. National outlets took a far more critical approach to Trump-era land use proposals. "Where Will Trump’s War on Public Lands End?" the New Yorker wondered in 2017. The following year, a New York Times headline lamented that a "Trump Drilling Plan Threatens 9 Million Acres of Sage Grouse Habitat." The coverage gap indicates a media bias, not just against Trump, but also for green energy.
'It’s Armageddon': Media Silent on Biden Admin Plan to Snatch Public Land For Solar Farms
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More Green Energy BS. Someone should tell these morons that it snows out here and the wind blows a lot of dirt around, both will cover their solar panels so they will need constant cleaning. The N.A. Tribes will probably tie this up in the courts for years to come unless they're getting a huge payout up front. If they don't the Ranchers and Environmentalists will. We can only hope.
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This is insane. Wiping out animal habitat, obviously they will wipe out trees and other green plants that scrub CO2 to produce oxygen. Stupid.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
Have you been on reservations in the central US? In general trees are a rarity and once construction is complete solar farms become habitat for all sorts of animals. It's happened less than a couple miles from where I live. Our power company built a huge solar facility that is now home to many small animals, some of which are threatened or endangered.
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Maj Robert Thornton
Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen I also know of large tracts of solar fams in middle GA. They purchased large tracts of farmland that in addition to the crops, deer and other animals had used the field for food. We were offered a 10 year lease on our farmland in NC, which would have netted about 1.5 Mil over the 10 years, to allow the placement of solar panels. We prefer to keep it as farmland.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
Maj Robert Thornton Nothing wrong with that. Any development reduces the natural state of land but solar farms probably has the least impact.
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An insane waste of taxpayer money and destroy natural habitat, all to solve a problem that doesn't exist with a technology that is not yet mature enough to be sustainable
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
So you're saying electricity shortages don't exist in the western US? As rivers that produce electricity for the area dry up there may be a few who disagree with that. One must think to the future and solar can reduce the impact of less hydro production.
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