Conservation Group Sues to Stop California Solar Plant

Well, there's an "environmental" group that has stuck its head where the sun don't shine. If they don't like renewable energy, they can have non-renewable (and CO₂-generative) energy--and then bitch about that.

From reading the article, it appears that the group (Western Watersheds Project) is not suing against renewable energy development. Rather they're suing on the grounds that for this particular facility adequate environmental impact reviews were not performed.

Some may speculate this is a frivolous or belligerent lawsuit put forth for nefarious reasons. Others may see it as a great example of how our legal system ensures the powerful will conform to the law. In this case I doubt we'll reach the correct conclusion from the few hundred words given.

It's a proposed solar plant, so it is renewable. The group might not phrase their stance as against renewable energy, but that is exactly what their lawsuit is--a renewable energy stopper. I don't necessarily think this is nefarious, but it looks very silly.

I'll try to keep this brief since every keystroke requires electricity, electricity that may be stained with the blood of countless innocent birds, fish and tortoises (I pay a voluntary premium on my electric bill to use higher priced renewable energy from wind, solar, and tidal). My first reaction was that this 'environmental' group might be a sham funded by the oil industry. The link below indicates I was probably wrong. It sounds more like a business model – perhaps a group of formerly underemployed lawyers, who as Rudyard Kipling put it in The Man Who Would Be King, are 'using a good law for a bad purpose'.

http://tucsoncitizen.com/wryheat/tag/western-watersheds/

Also today on CR4 is a thread dealing with "400,000" birds killed by wind power plants. Should I believe that there are serious environmentalists who are so myopic that they will try to nit pick to death any alternative, so that we can continue burning fossil fuel instead? Or should I assume that some of these groups have 'evolved' into make-work projects for lawyers?

This conversation group... what do they do? Sit around and talk all day?

Yet another BBE [bad blog entry]

what is the exact nature of the challenges?

who owns the land these projects are being built on?

Where's the beef?