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Solar Plant Nixed to Preserve Native American Artifacts

December 27, 2010 by Taylen Peterson
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It’s not good news, but it represents an all-too-human failing, one we call NIMBYism (not-in-my-backyard). Even if a project is beneficial, offering jobs and clean energy, some people don’t want it becoming part of the view out their windows. A step up from that is those individuals and groups who oppose projects on other grounds,... [read more]

Thermal Solar in the California Desert

October 28, 2010 by Willem Post
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  A recent article on the New York Times Greenwire website describes the Blythe Solar Power Project, BSPP.  See below website.   BSPP is a 968 MW thermal solar plant on 9,400 acres in the California Mojave desert leased from the Bureau of Land Management, BLM; of this land 7,025 acres will be taken up by the BSPP. The... [read more]

A ‘fresh look’ at onshore oil and gas drilling - Obama and Salazar move to protect lands in American West

June 1, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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The Obama administration is moving briskly to erect new protections against environmentally destructive energy development practices in the American West even as it grapples with the cascading effects of the catastrophic BP oil disaster in the Gulf—and the federal oversight lapses that may have contributed to it.  CAP’s Tom... [read more]

Drilling and Climate Change

April 15, 2010 by Geoffrey Styles
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For the last week or so I've been scratching my head over news that the Bureau of Land Management, an agency of the Department of Interior, had delayed an oil & gas lease sale in Montana and the Dakotas by at least five months, while it studies how oil field activities contribute to climate change. BLM's press release on the subject... [read more]

Daneros Utah uranium mine permit delayed

August 9, 2009 by Dan Yurman
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BLM State Office to review environmental assessment Some of this content was also published in Fuel Cycle Week V8:N327 on 07/29/09 by International Nuclear Associates, Washington, DC Two Utah environmental groups have temporarily gained the upper  hand in a dispute over the quality of an environmental assessment [EA] for the... [read more]

Interior Secretary Salazar, Senator Reid announce ‘Fast-Track’ initiatives for up to 100,000 MW of solar energy development on Western lands

July 6, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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The Bureau of Land Management has nearly 160 active solar project applications, “with a projected capacity to generate 97,000 megawatts of electricity” — equal to nearly 30% of the nation’s household electrical consumption.  Last week, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced a... [read more]

Some Refreshing Common Sense! BLM Removes Solar Roadblock

July 2, 2008 by Jesse Jenkins
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Well ask and you shall receive I guess... On monday, my colleague and I called on the federal Bureau of Land Management to stop being an Energy Delayer and lift a moratorium that locked up the vast reserves of solar energy located on federal lands. Today, the BLM announced that they would lift the planned twenty-two month moratorium on... [read more]

The Anti-Manhattan Project

June 30, 2008 by Geoffrey Styles
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If rising oil prices truly constitute an oil shock capable of destabilizing the economy, and if climate change poses a threat not just to the weather, but to our security, then it is fair to say that we face an urgent and complexly-linked challenge requiring immediate action. Nothing could be less consistent with that view of our... [read more]