Comments on: Feinstein Stands in Way of California Desert Wind Power Project

By: fireofenergy

fireofenergy — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:46:38 +0000

If Feinstein has that authority, we should have a right to vote on it period!

By: jeff

jeff — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 06:47:49 +0000

Cover every available piece of desert with turbines, and pretty soon you’ll know what visual pollution is all about. To some, the desert is beautiful, and it is home to far more life than most people imagine. In addition, wind turbines — as they exist — kill an awful lot of migratory birds. There’s a downside to everything, and unintended consequences attend every human activity. For the sake of our own sanity, if not the environment itself, we need to avoid placing some kind of man-made object on every available square inch of land.

By: Iain

Iain — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:19:00 +0000

Let’s protect the desert land for what? It is desert land, unusable.

By: Christine

Christine — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:19:55 +0000

This is an example of shortsighted thinking on behalf of the environmental movement- transmission of carbon neutral power from high wind areas to cities is a critical part of ameliorating climate change. Some of this will have to pass through habitat, in the lowest impact way. If you block this transmission, or don’t create an exemption for clean power transmission, you’re “cutting off your nose to spite your face”- or in other words, let’s “save” this swath of land, at the expense of reducing carbon emissions for power generation- a move that eventually will save the habitats at risk of being destroyed or altered forever by the planet’s climate at large. It’s an end run around RETI, a committee of industry and environmentalists at work for more than a year trying to plan renewable energy transmission initiatives.