Post by jgaffney on Dec 14, 2010 12:57:04 GMT -5
Despite all of the rhetoric about global warming climate change and the need to shift away from carbon-based energy sources, this article, from the San Diego Union-Tribune shows that we are not really serious about implementing a post-carbon economy:
A $2 billion project to cover 10 square miles of federally owned desert land east of San Diego with solar dishes is struggling with financing and might not get built if a judge sides with an Indian tribe, its backers said Monday.
“At this point, we don’t know when we can start construction,” Ella Foley Gannon, a lawyer for Imperial Valley Solar LLC, told a San Diego federal judge.
San Diego Gas & Electric is counting on power from the 709-megawatt Imperial Valley Solar project to help it meet state requirements for green energy.
An Indian tribe, the Quechan near Yuma, is asking Judge Larry A. Burns for an order that would prevent construction of the project. It says federal approvals were improperly given and the land is inappropriate for such an intensive use.
Why aren't all of the green power advocates rushing into the argument and getting the Indians to drop their complaint? Can't the Indians understand that green power is much more important that any claimed tribal rights? Who here thinks this project will ever get built?
A $2 billion project to cover 10 square miles of federally owned desert land east of San Diego with solar dishes is struggling with financing and might not get built if a judge sides with an Indian tribe, its backers said Monday.
“At this point, we don’t know when we can start construction,” Ella Foley Gannon, a lawyer for Imperial Valley Solar LLC, told a San Diego federal judge.
San Diego Gas & Electric is counting on power from the 709-megawatt Imperial Valley Solar project to help it meet state requirements for green energy.
An Indian tribe, the Quechan near Yuma, is asking Judge Larry A. Burns for an order that would prevent construction of the project. It says federal approvals were improperly given and the land is inappropriate for such an intensive use.
Why aren't all of the green power advocates rushing into the argument and getting the Indians to drop their complaint? Can't the Indians understand that green power is much more important that any claimed tribal rights? Who here thinks this project will ever get built?
