Posted on 04/14/2014 2:45:13 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
The Nevada rancher who forced the federal Bureau of Land Management to back down last week may have been targeted because a Chinese solar company with ties to Sen. Harry Reid's son wants the land for an energy plant, several websites report.
A report on Godfatherpolitics.com, says Chinese energy giant ENN Energy Group wants to use federal land as part of its effort to build a $5 billion solar farm and panel-building plant in the southern Nevada desert. Rory Reid, the son of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, is representing ENN in their efforts to locate in Nevada.
Part of the land ENN wants to use was purchased from Clark County at well below appraised value. Rory Reid is the former Clark County Commission chairman, and he persuaded the commission to sell 9,000 acres of county land to ENN on the promise it would provide jobs for the area, Reuters reported in 2012.
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Further, Loesch reports, Harry Reid pressured the BLM to change the tortoise's protected zone to accommodate developer Harvey Whittemore, one of the Democrat's top donors. Whittemore was convicted in May 2013 of making illegal campaign contributions to him.
"BLM has proven that they’ve a situational concern for the desert tortoise as they’ve had no problem waiving their rules concerning wind or solar power development," Loesch writes.
"Clearly, these developments have vastly affected a tortoise habitat more than a century-old, quasi-homesteading grazing area. If only Clive Bundy were a big Reid donor."
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Privileged government officials and their family members can seize citizens’ property and businesses?
Yeah, that’s the way to get the economy going and attract capital.
Whittemore was convicted in May 2013 of making illegal campaign contributions to him.
What did Reid do with the cash?.
I just listened to the latest Stansberry video.
As usual, after about 45 minutes of explaining how Adam met Eve, and how the wheel and fire were invented, he had some interesting information in the last couple of minutes, before he started pushing his newsletter, at which point I quit.
FATCA. Americans are going to be dumped by foreign banks worldwide. This is capital controls. Passed by the same wonderful Congress that gave us Obamacare. It starts July 1st.
This will make Smoot-Hawley look like the reign of Milton Friedman.
Comments, anybody?
Since when do “solar farms” produce energy?
When a solar plant—or any other development—is built in the desert the developer is required to mitigate the environmental effect by purchasing desert acreage of equal size and dedicating it as public land. It may be ENN is looking for mitigation land in Clark County. This wouldn’t produce any jobs.
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