Ocotillo Wind Farm Petition to stop construction

[RAT]

Signed and FBd. Good lord, read the documents required for this project. The BLM has its head firmly planted up its ass. Do they really think that Ocotillo Express is going to do half of the items listed in the construction monitoring review? Sheep monitor, sheep movement monitor, environmental impact monitor, a biologist to sit in a tower and watch for sheep. And these monitors are supposed to have authority to stop construction if a sheep wanders within 365 feet of a construction site? I can see that construction superintendent telling Mr. Monitor to go piss up a rope because he has a deadline to meet and that damn sheep can go to Hell. Then they (OE) are supposed to mitigate damage and re vegitate the area when they are done. Wow! Is the BLM really that stupid?

[Lumpy Grits]

"Wow! Is the BLM really that stupid?
The BLM, IS that arrogant, which is equals out to STUPID.
LG

[JK08]

This seems odd to build such a site for powering 25,000 homes.

Signed

[RAT]

This seems odd to build such a site for powering 25,000 homes.

Signed

Its not about powering homes with renewable energy, its about lining corporate pockets with ill-gotten gains and nothing more.

[Britain]

Little cut out from the BLM report:

The Ocotillo Wind Energy Project will likely cost approximately $1 billion. Do the math for 25K homes + loss of 13K acres of open space.

You should also read Resolution E-4458 from the PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
Someone is going to get a big rate increase to pay for this mess.

Good to know your tax dollars hard at work or wastefully being spent.

[RAT]

I think there should be an incidental taking of politicians and BLM officers who okd this F__k story.

[Britain]

Not a story anymore. There was an article in the paper today on a solar farm in Borrego. 300 acres producing about the same amount of energy 13,000 acres of wind farms.
I really think the numbers of what gets produced are posted inflated, Its all about getting the government subsidy.

I will guess that 90% of these projects, the materials and labor are from out of state. So California's green energy bill is a wind fall for other states.

Green energy is the threat to open spaces.

[Navy-Jeepster]

Its not about powering homes with renewable energy, its about lining corporate pockets with ill-gotten gains and nothing more.

The end game is about making money for these companies. But they sell the public a bill of goods about energy coming from green sources, so they feel better about paying a higher price for it. While doing this, they also get government grants to help in the cost of building, while they say they are reducing their carbon footprint. This also reduces their tax bill to the government. So, in the end, we pay for the building of these plants, lose access to this land to recreate on, and the government losses tax dollars from the company that is building and managing this mess. We as the tax payers lose even more.
Oh, and then in about 5 years, the company will fold and leave a mess behind that the tax payers will have to clean up. The owners of these companies will go form new green companies, and start the process all over again.

These green energy farms are one of the biggest threats to our sport, as they are sold to the public as protecting the environment from the carbon footprint emissions if using the oil products to make the same amount of energy as the solar or wind farms.
But, as mentioned above, it takes a huge army of equipment and materials to build these areas. The emissions from these could altimately be bigger than what they would save if they had build a smaller, hydrocarbon buring energy plant.
I work in a power plant for Chevron, and we produce less emissions from three turbines that generate 3 megawatts each in one day, than a car using a full tank of fuel in the same day.

Green energy companies and the groups that support them are not telling us everything about the foot print they use, and the energy needed to create these huge tracts of power generation plants.

Todd