Obama Sets Aside Chunk of Land Bigger Than Rocky Mountain National Park For Future Solar Boondoggles
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, October 16, 2012, 3:07 PM
Rocky Mountain National Park covers 265,828 acres, the park’s elevation reaches up to 14,259 feet and contains 415 square miles.
The Obama administration set aside a chunk of land bigger than Rocky Mountain National Park for future solar boondoggles.
CNS News reported, via Free Republic:
The Obama administration announced last week that it is setting aside 285,000 acres of public lands to be used for “commercial-scale solar development” – a total acreage amount that surpasses Rocky Mountain National Park, with 265,461 acres owned by the federal government.
“As part of President Obama’s all-of-the-above energy strategy to expand domestic energy production, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today finalized a program for spurring development of solar energy on public lands in six western states,” the Department of Interior press release on the new project states.
“The Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for solar energy development provides a blueprint for utility-scale solar energy permitting in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah by establishing solar energy zones with access to existing or planned transmission, incentives for development within those zones, and a process through which to consider additional zones and solar projects,” the press release states.
A fact sheet accompanying the press release states that the project will include “economic incentives” for development of solar power in the 17 “energy zones.” The fact sheet does not provide details about those incentives but labels them “strong incentives.”
The fact sheet also states that the project “sets a clear process that allows for development of well-sited projects on approximately 19 million acres outside the zones,” and that the environment of public lands is being protected by designating 78.6 million acres off-limits for solar development.
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Deptartment of Truth commented:
We are also looking at land for our unicorn reserve….
mg4us commented:
Guess Stupid is as stupid does. . .
Guess Obama never learns. . .all he need do is look at Spain and see the mess green jobs and solar has caused. .economy on the verge of crashing BIG!
Where is Palin, Drill Here Drill Now!!!! and All the above for energy independence.
TeachX3 commented:
And will the government own this energy? How much will the people who chose to use this energy have to pay? Can solar power even travel long distance before losing its power? Talk about eye soar. Did this idea come completely from the most intelligent person ever, mr eye candy himself, king obama? How can he dictate this land to go to this use… is there not some sort of check and balance ‘group’ he must go through?
Buffalobob commented:
Follow the money. If algore can become a billionaire with the global warming hoax and carbon credit scam, why can’t obama and his cronies get rich on solar panels?
bg commented:
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that’s were they’re going to bury the bodies..
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bman commented:
thank you for not putting any in Kansas. We already have a zillion windmills producing not much.
Look-Out commented:
OT, but nice:
Pool: “Reporter: ‘Is Hillary to blame for Benghazi?’ Obama: Silence. Kept walking.”
Meanwhile a senior adviser to Romney says Romney will demand that Obama “man up” on Benghazi.
from AceofSpades
Mahdi Al-Dajjal commented:
Now if we can just find one single solitary bunny rabit, field mouse, darter snail, fish, tick, flea, fungii, amoeba, or anything else whose habitat will in any way be “injured” by development of solar power on even a square meter of these millions of acres, we sue them in Federal Court and tie them up for decades in endless litigation.
After all, if there’s anything we’ve learned all these years from the Left, it’s that we ABSOLUTELY cannot have precious habitats of even the smallest creatures being ruined by the pursuit of energy resources!
bg commented:
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Buffalobob #4 October 16, 2012 at 3:19 pm
Barry has always been, and will continue to be, personally
enriched via the Global Warming.Climate Change Scam..
[In 2000 and 2001, while Barack Obama served as a board member for
a Chicago-based charitable foundation, he helped to fund a pioneering
carbon trading exchange that is likely to fill a critical role in the controversial
cap-and-trade carbon reduction scheme that President Obama is now trying
to push rapidly through Congress.
During those two years, the Joyce Foundation gave nearly $1.1 million in
two separate grants that were instrumental in developing and launching
the privately-owned Chicago Climate Exchange, which now calls itself
"North America's only cap and trade system for all six greenhouse gases,
with global affiliates and projects worldwide."]
please click on connecting links and scroll threads for much more, there’s
also much more to it, and i have posted it all here & there at one time or
another, repeatedly..
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bg commented:
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Look-Out #7 – page 1 October 16, 2012 at 3:33 pm
praying on that..
[The stage has been set for tonight’s presidential debate. It’s an open secret that both campaigns have expressed their concerns about the CNN-liberal, Candy Crowley – albeit the Obama campaign has “engaged” their concerns Chicago style. But it’s not the moderator, as such, that I’m concerned about – I want people in the audience to ask the following questions.
[..]
Obama should be asked to explain how his administration is not one of the most corrupt we have witnessed. He should be asked how much he really knows about what is taking place in his own administration. We’re told he knew nothing about Fast and Furious, and, according to Joe Biden, he and Obama were unaware that the Benghazi terrorist attacks weren’t really over a movie, as he had spent several days saying.]
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FurryGuy commented:
This is no “set aside”, this is a naked land grad by the Feds, pure and simple. Now only the Feds can say who gets to develop the land, which makes for one huge Crony Capitalism/Payola Scam.
Look-Out commented:
This probably explains why the local lib columnist who reliably trots out the Dem line is talking up green energy again. She can’t talk about Benghazi, that’s for sure. Oh, mum’s the word on that one. Like the NYTimes, she’s ignored it completely. Well, once she’d taken her swipe at Romney for being “hysterical” to respond before getting all the facts about a protest over a video that had gotten “alot of hits”.
archer52 commented:
Thatcher was right. Socialism works until it runs out of other people’s money. France denied this and business are fleeing. Germany kinda gets it. Greece refuses and will perish.
In my opinion, socialists should never be allowed to get near sheep. They’ll shear the wool so close it will kill the critters, like they are killing us.
From my blog
http://truthandcommonsense.com/2012/10/16/the-french-lead-the-wayinto-the-crapper-socialist-president-increases-taxes-businesses-and-investors-leave/
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I love this. Our world is reaching that point where it resembles a set of bad brakes- metal on metal grinding together as it slows down. Think of an old steam engine pulling on its emergency brakes. Why? Because socialists have finally ran into the wall that defines the edges of their theory of government. Or as Margaret Thatcher pointed out years ago- socialism works until you run out of everybody else’s money. Socialism works as long as it can run around INSIDE the room created by free enterprise, capitalism and wealth. Socialism does not allow for the necessary amount of wealth to be created in order to feed it. So it runs on the vapors of what is remaining from the time before socialism took over, along with the shrinking sources it allows to exist under its ever growing weight. It is a system that simply starves itself by its own nature.
The French people elected a man who swore there was just a little more room to wiggle around in. He promised he could keep the nation going at the rate it was, with all benefits in place, by raising taxes on business. It’s a lie, just as it is a lie when Obama and Biden say it. Now the French business and investors have had enough.
“The situation is very serious. Some business leaders are in a state of quasi-panic,” said Laurence Parisot, head of employers’ group MEDEF.
“The pace of bankruptcies has accelerated over the summer. We are seeing a general loss of confidence by investors. Large foreign investors are shunning France altogether. It’s becoming really dramatic.”
MEDEF, France’s equivalent of the CBI, said the threat has risen from “a storm warning to a hurricane warning”, adding that the Socialist government of François Hollande has yet to understand the “extreme gravity” of the crisis.
The immediate bone of contention is Article 6 of the new tax law, which raises the top rate of capital gains tax from 34.5pc to 62.2pc. This compares with 21pc in Spain, 26.4pc in Germany and 28pc in Britain.
“Let’s be clear, Article 6 is not acceptable, even if modified. We will not be complicit in a disastrous economic mistake,” Mrs Parisot told Le Figaro.
The French government, like all governments, believe it has a right to survive that is greater than its citizens. Our government is the same way. It is made up of people who like working and doing what they do who truly believe they have a purpose. You ask the assistant director to the assistant director to the vice president in charge of highway lane painting and that person will be absolutely convinced his or her job is indispensable. They won’t be able to define its merits or really prove an impact, but they’ll be convinced so they won’t want to give up a dime of their budget.
The Conservative wall commented:
Well, at least this wont ever happen because Obama is gone in 3 weeks.
1st day in office should be to repeal Liberal boondoggle.
chuck in st paul commented:
any wagers on how much of this land is sitting above mineral or oil deposits?
Redwine commented:
Apparently, the regime’s money laundering operations takes up a lot of space.
bobdog commented:
I must have missed this one in the Congressional Record. I don’t recall any legislation that authorized this land appropriation.
Does anyone else? What was the vote in the House? How about the Senate? When did Obama sign the legislation?
Anybody? Anybody? Buehler?
Look-Out commented:
#10 bg’s link to M. Massie — those are some knock-out punches! I’ll be praying too.
valerie commented:
Thomas Peterffy made good in the US and paid for this ad. It’s probably already been posted here, but it’s so good I had to post this link.
http://thehayride.com/2012/10/the-freedom-to-succeed-ad-everybody-is-talking-about-today/
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