Posted on 04/10/2014 9:13:18 AM PDT by Nachum
Recent assessment from Freeper daxtonbrown: http://www.futurnamics.com/reid_bundyranch.php
“Under the program, developers would acquire a right-of-way to build on U.S. Bureau of Land Management property and then pay royalties to the government. Payment levels are based on the amount of acreage involved and the value of the right-of-way, Salazar said.”
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/oct/12/60400-acres-nevada-designated-solar-energy-zones/
Also,
http://www.seia.org/news/nevada-now-home-federal-solar-demonstration-zone
Kudos
“Deleted from BLM.gov but reposted for posterity by the Free Republic, the BLM document entitled “Cattle Trespass Impacts” directly states that Bundy’s cattle “impacts” solar development, more specifically the construction of “utility-scale solar power generation facilities” on “public lands.”
“Non-Governmental Organizations have expressed concern that the regional mitigation strategy for the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone utilizes Gold Butte as the location for offsite mitigation for impacts from solar development, and that those restoration activities are not durable with the presence of trespass cattle,” the document states.
Another BLM report entitled Regional Mitigation Strategy for the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone (BLM Technical Note 444) reveals that Bundy’s land in question is within the “Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone and surrounding area” which is part of a broad U.S. Department of Energy program for “Solar Energy Development in Six Southwestern States” on land “managed” by BLM.”
Infowars.com - April 11, 2014
“The Bureau of Land Management, whose director was Sen. Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) former senior adviser, has purged documents from its web site stating that the agency wants Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s cattle off of the land his family has worked for over 140 years in order to make way for solar panel power stations.
Deleted from BLM.gov but reposted for posterity by the Free Republic, the BLM document entitled “Cattle Trespass Impacts” directly states that Bundy’s cattle “impacts” solar development, more specifically the construction of “utility-scale solar power generation facilities” on “public lands.”
“Non-Governmental Organizations have expressed concern that the regional mitigation strategy for the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone utilizes Gold Butte as the location for offsite mitigation for impacts from solar development, and that those restoration activities are not durable with the presence of trespass cattle,” the document states................”
http://www.infowars.com/breaking-sen-harry-reid-behind-blm-land-grab-of-bundy-ranch/
Count me in, too.
Pagin/Pingin tonkat!!! (grin)
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Exactly. I have to also say I have in my lifetime gathered some illegals and have also gathered “feral” dangerous cattle...it is far easier to gather illegals.
LOL !
Auctioneers wont sell
That put a big smile on my face
It sounds like what happened is similar to what they tried to do with the coal terminal project in Whatcom County , WA.
The terminal is to be built in a wet land area, close to the Lummi reservation. So first, they made a deal with BP, which removed the land from the storm water district and then they tried to make a deal with The People for Puget Sound, which was one of the most powerful NGOs in the state, to allow the PPS to control all the mitigation funds which should have gone to Whatcom County. The claim was that their studies show that off sight mitigation is much more effective than on sight mitigation. What it really does is pay off the NGO and buy their support instead opposition. In the case of the Whatcom County coal terminal, the deal was exposed and the NGO ended up losing their state funding. The deal with the coal terminal on Whatcom County was illegal partly because of the involvement of BP, which had a vested interest in the coal terminal and a seat on the storm water advisory board, which was working with the People for Puget Sound.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. There are likely a bottomless pit of gov't malfeasance.
From what I have read, the Chinese have traded the mitigation for Dry Lake Solar farm in Laughlin for the off site mitigation of the grazing land.
The stupid turtle was on the solar site, as well. So, instead of protecting the turtle at Dry Lake, they made an agreement with the environmental NGO group to buy the grazing land and restore it. BIG BUCKS that will go to the NGO for doing nothing but getting the cattle off the ranch.
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"....My thinking is they did this for two reasons first I think they needed to put blame on the Bundy ranch for hurting the poor defenseless “endangered dessert tortoise.” Second reason is they needed to kill them off so that when big oil comes in they wont be bothered by extreme environmentalist when they start fracking for oil as BLM has already sold 29 oil, gas leases in northeast Nevada.
The reality is these “endangered dessert tortoise” have lived for thousands of years next to other hoofed animals such as the buffalo and dear. so why is a cow any different. Cows are generally very good to neighboring animals. obviously over grazing can cause issues but the Bundy Ranch is aware of the local environment and not to mention the land is huge in a vast 1,200-square-mile area of rangeland. that means each of the “900 trespassing cattle” had over 1.3 miles of land for each cow to graze. thats insane. and the BLM is saying that these cows are endangering the dessert tortoise? This is so beyond crazy its not even funny.
Bakersfield is one of the largest oil producers in the world. I bring up Bakersfield because the town has an eery sight of oil pumps stretching as far as the eye could see. The new oil industry fad is fracking. Fracking has opened a whole new door for oil production and can be used all over the united states and even the world regardless of the location and geological environment. fracking is a process by which drilling is done and water along with a slect bit of chemicals are added to the ground to raise the oil out of the ground to the surface. fracking has caused a lot of controversy over the years because of its known environmental issues such as leaving the ground contaminated, Lack of care taken for environmental safety extracting the oil, earthquakes, deadly chemicals, and so on. This is what Nevada and the bundy ranch will look like if big oil takes over."
Seems the BLM has already issued some 23 fracking leases and probably wants to issue a whole bunch more but doesn't want the Bundy's to get in on any of the action since they had the land titled to them/the govt., years ago after the Bundy's farmed it for over 100 years. As for the endangered tortoises they are killing them by the dozen for some reason. Lots more to this story it appears.
Clark County Stinks from Dingy Reid corruption.
That is the reason that the People For Puget Sound lost their funding and only a few bureaucrats lost their jobs. All of the county council, including the Republicans were complicit. No one wanted their part in the scam exposed. I wasn’t even aware that what they were doing was illegal when I first asking questions. The whole project could have been stopped if the malfeasance had been made public. I still think that is the real reason that Goldman Sachs pulled their funding for the coal terminal. It is now owned by a Mexican financier.
Sounds like you are a trouble maker. ;-)
No, the environmentalists are trying to use the endangered species to shut down the fossil fuel industry in the west. BLM might want to make the money, but this is a case of pay off the the NGOs. Obama is buying the environmental votes by shutting down the ranchers and the oil and gas industry. This is an all out war for votes.
I’ve learned a lot. I have learned that the silly volunteer environmentalists don’t have any idea that what they are doing is wrong, let alone illegal. They truly believe that they are saving the planet by forcing others to comply with their demands. The ends always justifies the means.
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