Today, the Interior Department announced that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has given final approval to a new solar energy project on public lands in California. The Crimson Solar Project represents an investment of roughly $550 million and has the potential to deliver enough power to energize approximately 87,500 … [continued]
Originally published on the ECOreport. Some think of Ivanpah as a renewable milestone. Mojave elder Reverend Ron Van Fleet finds it an obstacle to performing rituals at a sacred site within the solar plant’s enclosure. The residents of Boulevard were more successful fighting against encroaching industrial scale wind and solar plants. Environmentalists are concerned about the negative … [continued]
The first step in a long-term plan to utilize 22 million acres of California’s desert for renewable energy use was started earlier this month by the US Government. On November 10, the US Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewel, in collaboration with California Secretary for Natural Resources John Laird, revealed the … [continued]
