Posted on 09/02/2009 10:57:34 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Plans to string additional power lines from western Lassen County to the Bay Area were put on hold and possibly terminated in early July after landowners and environmentalists voiced fears about the plans' impact on property rights and the environment.
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California’s move toward an environment-friendly future and green economy is being challenged by an unexpected source: a decision-making process that too often pits the concerns of local communities and conservationists against renewable energy developers. Some of the nation’s fiercest environmental battles have been fought in California. Think about the decades-long Bay Area-Delta water wars or the fights over offshore drilling in Southern California. Today, another and perhaps even larger conflict looms: combating climate change.
Utilities, coalitions of cities and special districts, energy companies and investors across the state are already pitching industrial-scale renewable energy projects such as solar and wind farms. New high-capacity transmission facilities, often running hundreds of miles and including towers and substations, are proposed for many areas. And while these projects have the potential to make a meaningful impact on the state’s carbon footprint, the communities that are being asked to accept these large infrastructure projects are increasingly voicing concern and opposition.
In Northern California, a consortium of cities, irrigation districts and electric utilities planned to build a $1.5 billion string of power lines, towers and substations from northeast California to Sacramento and the Bay Area – a move that would make it possible to import energy from existing hydropower facilities, and geothermal and wind energy projects throughout the Pacific Northwest, California and Nevada. The Sacramento Municipal Utility District looked to the project by the Transmission Agency of Northern California, known as the TANC, as a critical step to meet new state and district renewable energy requirements.
(Excerpt) Read more at californiaenergynews.com ...
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Ping.
Sorry, but I do find the fight rather amusing.
environmentalists voiced fears about the plans' impact on property rights
From people who don't believe in property rights.
Who gives an Obama about Mexifornia any more?
Yep. The longer I live, the more erratic the Environuts become.
Ping me if you find one I've missed.
Looks like TANC is TANC-ing.
If it’s fists or guns, my money is on the anti-AGW side.
They’ll fix it in the usual California way— demand alternative fuels through legislation, and then prohibit the fuels from being processed in California. They already do that with gasoline/diesel and electricity...
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CA:$1 Billion Carbon-Capture Plant Planned for the Central Valley
Environmentalism is fraud from top to bottom. Enviro-fascism has taken total control of California and the liberal fascists are attempting to use California as a model to leverage totalitarian marxism on the rest of the country. A huge part of the fiscal pit and the abject un-governability of the state can be traced to environmental fraud. Like allegations of racism or sexism, environmental fraud is unchallengeable. Proof of this is the thousands of minority workers put put of work over a fraudulent non-existent smelt problem. The enviro-nazis are so powerful in California they can with impunity impoverish a huge minority bloc.
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The leftist aka progressive treehuggers have one goal. To stop anything they do not want. When CA starts having brownouts these leftist aka progressive treehuggers should be the first ones to have their power turned off.
Are the wildfires in CA a direct results of how the leftist aka progressive treehuggers now manage the forest? We had forest fires back when America harvested the forest. They did not seem as bad.
But it has been really dry for the last few years....
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