Energy Ethics at DOI...
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 7:14 pm
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Something Stinks - Energy Ethics at Interior
The OHV community is being hammered on a daily basis with TMR-related closures, abuse of cost-recovery for permitted events, eco-lawsuits, and the sage grouse (just to name a few).Recently, HQ has been focusing some attention to the large number of wind and solar energy projects that are being fast-tracked by the Obama Administration and Department of Interior. The national media ran a story on March 17 about some ethically-challenged energy policy advisors at Interior and the NextEra project.
LA Times Article
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me ... 6819.story
With even simple OHV projects (new well at Stonyford or the Carnegie SVRA lands opened for public use) being held up for 4-12 years or more due to the state and federal regulatory process and “environmental concernsâ€
Something Stinks - Energy Ethics at Interior
The OHV community is being hammered on a daily basis with TMR-related closures, abuse of cost-recovery for permitted events, eco-lawsuits, and the sage grouse (just to name a few).Recently, HQ has been focusing some attention to the large number of wind and solar energy projects that are being fast-tracked by the Obama Administration and Department of Interior. The national media ran a story on March 17 about some ethically-challenged energy policy advisors at Interior and the NextEra project.
LA Times Article
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me ... 6819.story
With even simple OHV projects (new well at Stonyford or the Carnegie SVRA lands opened for public use) being held up for 4-12 years or more due to the state and federal regulatory process and “environmental concernsâ€