The world ran on biomass before the mid-19th century-
Biomass is not 21st century energy technology; it is closer to 18th century-
Years ago when I first began to study energy, our economy and environment, I learned that the great advances in the deployment of energy came from the discovery of the fossil fuels — […]
Continue Reading →Centralized corporate solar energy is green? not a chance!
Story on testimony by Frank de Rosa, First Solar executive. Arizona Daily Star.
This guy sounds just like an oil company executive with his complaints that they can’t just bulldoze wildlife and vegetation on our public lands. We need to kill this […]
Continue Reading →Big Energy companies with criminal records given billions in stimulus funds to wreak havoc on our public lands and wildlife.
The Center for Public Integrity has issued a stinging report on how the Obama Administration has bypassed the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) when issuing permits for energy and other projects which involve federal lands […]
Continue Reading →Profound changes to the entire ecology of the Gulf
This is part of what makes Obama/Salazar appear tone deaf to what occurred during the Gulf Oil Spill and I think it played a big part in people’s loss of faith in his administration and big losses seen in the Congress by Democrats. Rather than using […]
Continue Reading →What has this society come to?
Construction of the Ivanpah Solar plant starts.
Clear the land of life for power generation that could be achieved by installing solar panels on rooftops where it is used. The bulldozers, fences, and powerlines are next.
The science shows that half of these endangered desert tortoises will die […]
Continue Reading →George Wuerthner challenges biomass energy.
If biomass energy production were fully implemented, it would become the single largest human impact to land in the country, requiring the near full utilization of all the U.S. forests and much of its agricultural lands for fuel production, contributing to what one TNC scientist has termed “energy sprawl.”
But they continue to ignore the biggest threat to their habitat……….. GRAZING.
$16 million in handouts for this year alone.
The NRCS is handing out more money to ranchers for “habitat conservation” or “habitat improvement” projects that maintain grazing on public lands.
There are some projects such as fence removal that will be funded […]
Continue Reading →Alleged actions are a violation of state law.
“A state ethics board alleges that William Weiler repeatedly used his position as a state biologist involved in permitting wind-power projects in Southwest Washington to influence turbine developers to donate money to the Columbia Gorge Ecology Institute, a nonprofit that he led.”
State biologist accused of […]
Continue Reading →A group of environmentalists says renewable energy goal shouldn’t come with destruction of native plant, animal life
In the Ivanpah Solar site lies on public lands in the center of very important desert tortoise habitat so the company proposes to move those tortoise to a new area before construction begins. This is a strategy that […]
Continue Reading →This article suggests the energy stimulus will be mostly green and decentralized-
I’m not sure how the author of this article (Richard Martin) knows this, but he says the part of the stimulus directed specifically at energy will consist mostly of community based activities, retrofitting, energy efficiency and the like.
I add that this kind […]
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