Posted on 04/23/2014 4:25:51 AM PDT by Liz
SOURCE First Solar Media press release: “First Solar is thrilled to celebrate this important milestone with Sen. Reid and distinguished guests,
and honored to work with the Moapa Band of Paiutes on this landmark project,” said Jim Hughes, the CEO of First Solar.
Signaling the first day of construction of the Moapa Southern Paiute Solar Project, which is about 35 miles from the Bundy homestead in Bunkerville, Nevada, Sen. Reid (far right) hoists shovel, joined by representatives from the Moapa Band of Paiutes, executives from First Solar, Inc. and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power for the groundbreaking ceremony on March 21, 2014.
PIC/First Solar
The federally-financed BLM brazenly attempted a cover-up by deleting public documents exposing its plans from its web site. It is suspected---
but, unfortunately, could not be fully determined as of this writing---if Harry Reid or Rory Reid had colluded with BLM in the brazen cover-up.
However, astute FReepers from the up-to-the-minute news site, Free Republic, were able to capture, and save the the documents, to publicly expose the federal agency's nefarious plans.
Hmmm they are just going to go on as if the old liberal media was still the only one giving news about their activities
This would be the ONLY story remotely related to the Bundy Ranch, and would only talke about a few nuisance farmers, if it were not for US and FOX NEWS
Obama and Reid and Pelosi with the SUPPORT OF THE GOP
have destroyed every Law in America and every
freedom-loving ally the US once had.
Under these criminals,
AMERICA now only “lives” under the Tyrant to make
weapons for al Qaeda and MORE money for the corrupt,
HATED, treasonous, EXEMPT.
So the state-run Democrat media was lying again when they said it was more than a hundred miles between the solar site and Bundy’s ranch. This should be pointed out endlessly for the rest of this week.
No wonder driving Bundy off the land was a priority for the BLM. They need Bundy’s water for the Chinese solar company. In the West and Southwest, it’s always about water.
Democrat Motto: We Do What We Want
The tragedy is that their supporters will still love them, will vote for them into eternity, and will still consider people in “flyover country” to be ignorant, stupid,
knuckle-dragging, bible-thumping, gun-loving morons, and last but not least “wannabe terrorists”.
(Absolutely amazing, disheartening and disgusting.)
IMHO
The feds often violate endangered species habitats by "offsetting" other land to make up for the violation. This makes it OK in the twisted minds of liberal bureaucrats. The "offset" land must remain forever pristine, so the easiest way to get it is to eliminate all other uses for it. In this case, the solar lands destroy turtle habitat, so to make up for it, they are demanding that Bundy remove his cattle from the offsetting lands to provide unmolested turtle habitat. So, everyone wins, the turtles get dry land (that they no longer can survive without moisture provided by cattle dung), the Chinese get their solar technology to steal from the US, and the Reids get their millions. But for the minor detail of stealing land homesteaded by the Bundys a century and a half ago, all is well in Nevada.
Reid is so easy to predict, just follow the money.
REUTERS EXCERPT/EDITED BY POSTER: In 2003, Harry Reid made a show of publicly banning relatives from lobbying him or his staff after newspaper reports showed that Nevada industries and institutions routinely turned to Reid's sons or son-in-law, lawyers at prominent area law firms, for representation.
Now, Harry Reid and his oldest son, Rory, are both involved in Chinese Energy giant's ENN Energy Group, to build a $5 billion solar farm and solar panel manufacturing plant in the southern Nevada desert.
Reid himself helped recruit the solar company during a 2011 Senate junket to China.ENN is headed by Chinese energy tycoon Wang Yusuo, who made a fortune estimated by Forbes at $2.2 billion distributing natural gas in China.
Wang escorted Harry Reid and a delegation of nine other U.S. senators on a tour of the company's clean energy operations in Langfang, and Reid featured Wang as a speaker at his 4th annual National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas last year.
Rory, a lawyer with a prominent politically-connected Las Vegas firm that is representing ENN, helped it locate a 9,000-acre (3,600-hectare) desert site that it is buying well below appraised value from Clark County, where Rory Reid formerly chaired the county commission.
The Langfang, China-based ENN Energy Group hopes to build what would be the largest solar energy complex in America. The site----chosen with Rory Reid's guidance----is in tiny Laughlin, Nevada, a gambling town of 7,300 along the Colorado River, 90 miles south of Las Vegas.
For the record..... is it on BLM land or Paiute Reservation land.?
There is a large reservation Paiute down in southern Nevada. Solar farms might be the next Indian Casino bubble. There are tons of vacant reservation land in Utah, Nevada and especially Arizona.
twisted bassturds
I’m sure this will be exhaustively covered by the lying sacks of crap a.k.a. the Partisan Media Shills / PMS. Thanks Liz.
How ironic. That picture says so many things.
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140321005764/en/Moapa-Paiute-Tribe-LADWP-Solar-Break-Ground
http://investor.firstsolar.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=834730
This Chinese solar crap smells like a Chinese military front group who now place a mililtary operation within our borders thanks to the Dems !
Wasn’t the Chinese military caught funneling campaign funds to the Marxist Muslim in 2008 ?....
This smells bad .
To advance the Nevada solar project, the behemoth Chinese energy company, ENN, retained Nevada's largest and most prestigious law firm--Lionel Sawyer & Collins--where Rory Reid works. The law firm is headed by Richard Bryan, a former Nevada attorney general, governor, and member of the U.S. Senate.
Harry's eldest son, Rory Reid, faced a one-year cooling off period from lobbying the Clark County commission after leaving his post there in January 2011, so law frim principle, and ex-Sen, Bryan took the lead on ENN's negotiations with the county. Since the one-year ban expired, Rory Reid has been ENN's primary representative before the county, according to Steve Sisolak, the board's vice chairman.
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Two months after Harry Reid's China junket subsidized by taxpayers, Lionel Sawyer registered ENN Mohave Energy LLC as an American subsidiary of the Chinese company. The firm negotiated with the county to buy the land rather than lease it, as the county's staff had recommended.
In December, Clark County commissioners voted unanimously to sell up to 9,000 acres of public land to the subsidiary at pennies on the dollar.The deal spurred local controversy. Separate appraisals valued the land at $29.6 million and $38.6 million. The commission agreed to sell it to ENN for $4.5 million.
The county did build in certain conditions before the project could begin, including milestones for jobs creation and investment. ENN also must assure the county that it has a power company willing to commit to buying energy from the solar farm. But in the eight months since the commissioners approved the deal, no utility had signed a power purchase agreement.
However, Harry Reid stepped in to flex his political muscle. Reid used an online discussion related to his annual energy summit for an as-yet unsuccessful effort to pressure Nevada's largest power company, NV Energy, to sign up as ENN's first customer.
In the July 30 online discussion, Reid said the project "would start tomorrow if NV Energy would purchase the power." The utility controls "95 percent of all of the electricity that is produced in Nevada and they should go along with this." Reid's online comments were first reported by the Las Vegas Review Journal.
The power company responded by saying it had exceeded its minimum renewable energy requirements both last year and this year, though it would consider buying power from ENN in the future. A spokesman for NV Energy declined to discuss the matter further.
Ex-Sen Bryan, the head of Rory Reid's law firm, did not return Reuters repeated phone calls and emails. An official with ENN in Langfang, China, did not respond to Reuters emails.
Rory Reid acknowledged representing ENN at both the county and state levels. He declined to discuss the project with Reuters.
Obama-Tied Troubled First Solar $3 Billion DOE Loans Produce Majority of Jobs Oversees, CEO Sold His Own Stock –– Plus More “Clean-Energy Dirt” Exposed
http://greencorruption.blogspot.com/2012/06/obama-tied-troubled-first-solar-3.html#.U1eslPldWSo
Republican motto: and we don’t care.
And the Wisk profile on ReidBunkerville LLC says it was conveeeeeniently started up in 2010.
In the REAL world, it would be called insider trading, but in the liberal bubble, it's just business-as-usual.
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