The Party of Alternative Energy, Gets NIMBY Again....

[twyacht]

During the months leading up to the election, the Democrats were against domestic oil expansion, and PUSHED for alternative and renewable energy sources.

OK, great....

Here's a "shovel ready" project, in California, (where unemployment is 10%), and Dianne Feinstein D-Ca, caters to who?
The Environmentalists.

http://www.newsmax.com/us/desert_preservation/2009/03/21/194507.html


Feinstein Seeks Block Solar Power From Desert Land

Saturday, March 21, 2009 7:18 AM

WASHINGTON -- California's Mojave Desert may seem ideally suited for solar energy production, but concern over what several proposed projects might do to the aesthetics of the region and its tortoise population is setting up a potential clash between conservationists and companies seeking to develop renewable energy.

Nineteen companies have submitted applications to build solar or wind facilities on a parcel of 500,000 desert acres, but Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Friday such development would violate the spirit of what conservationists had intended when they donated much of the land to the public.

Feinstein said Friday she intends to push legislation that would turn the land into a national monument, which would allow for existing uses to continue while preventing future development.

"It would destroy the entire Mojave Desert ecosystem," said David Myers, executive director of The Wildlands Conservancy.

Feinstein said the lands in question were donated or purchased with the intent that they would be protected forever. But the Bureau of Land Management considers the land now open to all types of development, except mining. That policy led the state to consider large swaths of the land for future renewable energy production.

"This is unacceptable," Feinstein said in a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. "I urge you to direct the BLM to suspend any further consideration of leases to develop former railroad lands for renewable energy or for any other purpose."

In a speech last year, Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger complained about environmental concerns slowing down the approval of solar plants in California.

"If we cannot put solar power plants in the Mojave desert, I don't know where the hell we can put it," Schwarzenegger said at Yale University.

Wouldn't want to disturb the tumbleweeds and SAND......


Ted Kennedy, doesn't want a proposed wind farm to "disrupt" his view of Martha's Vineyard either....

You can't win with these people.

[MikeBjerum]

And the King of Green and Global Warming, Al Gore, wants everyone to conserve as long as it does not affect his yacht, private jets, and fleet of SUV's.

My favorite question to everyone that opposes something, myself included, is "If not this than what is your solution," and "What are you doing to prepare or avoid the next situation (what ever it may be?"  Good luck on ever getting an answer.  What I have found is that the louder and stronger the fight, the less they even try to answer you ... I think they call it arrogance!

[tombogan03884]

 They wanted to put wind mills off the Mass coast, guess who shot it down because it would "spoil the view" from Hyanisport.
Bunch of damned hypocrites.

[runstowin]

Ted Kennedy, doesn't want a proposed wind farm to "disrupt" his view of Martha's Vineyard either....

Remember, they are the people, we are the peons.

Peon: In the English-speaking world in general, the term peon is used colloquially to mean a person with little authority, often assigned unskilled or drudgerous tasks; an underling. In this sense, peon can be used in either a derogatory or self-effacing context.

[tombogan03884]

Ted Kennedy, doesn't want a proposed wind farm to "disrupt" his view of Martha's Vineyard either....

Remember, they are the people, we are the peons.

Peon: In the English-speaking world in general, the term peon is used colloquially to mean a person with little authority, often assigned unskilled or drudgerous tasks; an underling. In this sense, peon can be used in either a derogatory or self-effacing context.

You spelled it wrong, it's spelled Pee on.

[Sponsor]

[runstowin]

You spelled it wrong, it's spelled Pee on.

The use of that word was purposeful, just wanted to see if anyone would get it. You of course did.