As part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan
to reduce carbon pollution, create jobs and move our economy toward
clean energy sources, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell yesterday
announced the approval of two solar energy projects located near the
Nevada-California border that are expected to supply 550 megawatts of
renewable energy, enough to power about 170,000 homes, and support more
than 700 jobs through construction and operations. Yesterday’s approvals bring to 50 the number of utility-scale
renewable energy proposals and associated transmission that the Interior
Department has approved since 2009, including 27 solar, 11 wind, and 12
geothermal projects...more
See: The Dark Side Of Solar Power
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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