Showing posts with label solar power. Show all posts
Showing posts with label solar power. Show all posts
April 5, 2016

Feds approve controversial remote desert solar plant near Baker

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A bighorn sheep climbs the terrain of the Mojave National Preserve, about a mile northeast of the proposed site for the Soda Mountain Sola...
March 29, 2016

House Republicans open probe of new California national monuments

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By Carolyn Lochhead SF Gate WASHINGTON — House Republicans opened an investigation Tuesday into President Obama’s designation of three n...
January 21, 2016

California desert town being sold for $5 million

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The historic Hotel Nipton is included in the Nipton town site now for sale. David Schuman KTNV Las Vegas A For Sale sign is up in fr...
March 13, 2015

Desert tortoise gets 7,400 acres

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Biologist Jeff Valentine, working for BrightSource, walks back to his truck just outside the gates of the BrightSource solar project in 2011...
March 10, 2015

Desert plan shifts focus to public land

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Federal and state officials put plans for privately owned land on the back burner. Larry LaPre, a wildlife biologist for the U.S. Bureau of...
November 8, 2014

Will renewable energy ruin an 'irreplaceable' Mojave desert oasis?

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The BLM has called the Silurian Valley an "undisturbed, irreplaceable, historic scenic landscape." But now the federal agency is c...
October 22, 2014

Southern California Desert Management Plan Worries Activists

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A sweeping renewable energy management plan for Southern California's desert regions is stirring fears about potential new solar farms a...
September 26, 2014

Massive Solar Power Project for California Desert Scrapped

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The proposed Palen Solar Electric Generating System. (Palen Solar Holdings) by Chris Clarke KCET.org T he consortium of solar companies ...
September 5, 2014

Work begins on $1 billion solar plant in Nevada

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Silver State South concept. Associated Press Reno Gazette-Journal LAS VEGAS – Construction has begun on a $1 billion solar power gene...
August 17, 2014

'Alarming' Rate Of Bird Deaths As New Solar Plants Scorch Animals In Mid-Air

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Solar panels stand at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in the Mojave Desert near Primm, Nevada, U.S., on Monday, March 10, 201...
July 4, 2014

Mojave Solar: Can big power make it online?

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Mojave Solar Project near Hinkley, California under construction. GARY BRODEUR, STAFF WRITER Victorville Daily Press HINKLEY — One of ...
May 16, 2014

Mojave Desert not ideal for massive solar project

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Soda Mountain is a proposed solar project seen from the air on Wednesday, February 5, 2014. Several big solar and wind energy projects are m...
May 2, 2014

Off-roaders cry foul at renewable energy plan

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Brightsource Solar Facility Anneli Fogt Desert Dispatch VICTORVILLE • Off-roading enthusiast Jon Stewart was among dozens of people w...
April 30, 2014

A Ghost Town, Going Green

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Mr. Freeman and his wife, Roxanne Lang, reopened the town’s store and cafe, and restored the hotel, room by room, creating a destination f...
April 21, 2014

Environmentalists pushed Bundy ranch standoff over endangered [sic] tortoises

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A helicopter takes off from a staging area of BLM vehicles and other government vehicles off of Riverside Road near Bunkerville, Nevada ov...
April 16, 2014

Huge solar project questioned

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The proposed Silurian Valley solar project would install photovoltaic panels such as those pictured here at the First Solar is project nea...
March 19, 2014

Park service says project would harm Mojave preserve

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Soda Lake in the Mojave National Preserve is the point where the Mojave River, which flows from the San Bernardino Mountains, reaches its ...
March 18, 2014

Airplane pilots hit by ‘nearly blinding’ glare from massive California solar facility

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Heliostats reflect sunlight onto boilers in towers during the grand opening of the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in the Mojave ...