Century-old Joshua trees in the California desert will be cleared to make way for clean energy. [emphasis, links added]
The 2,300-acre solar project is going up near Boron, in Southern California, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The area of Kern County from which the project is slated has a poverty rate twice that of the state’s average.
The solar farm will generate intermittent power for 180,000 homes in wealthier coastal neighborhoods.
Besides the destruction of old trees, the residents living near the project say county and state officials who approved the project have ignored their other concerns about construction dust and impacts on endangered desert tortoises.
According to the Times, the controversy highlights “tradeoffs” between reducing carbon dioxide emissions in electricity generation and the land-intensive environmental impacts of the wind and solar industry.
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The Eco-Freaks are now finding out about the Cost of going totally on Wind and Solar and its not that Environmentally Friendly
I have been among those Joshua trees. They are beautiful and awesome, a gift from nature. This is just one example of how the climate change movement damages the environment.
Trader Joe’s just did the exact same thing for the massive distribution warehouse in Palmdale.
Are the Tree Huggers going to climb us those Joshua Trees keep them f from being cut down? Where are you Butterly Hill? the Joshua Trees Need You
Take a look at what remains of the Solar 1 experiment
34°52′18″N 116°50′03″W (copy and paste the highlighted data and paste it into the Google Earth search window and press enter.) Here you will find all that’s left of Solar 1 – a “scorched earth” circular patch of desert denuded of its original fragile ecosystems and centuries old Joshua trees – no attempt has been made to rehabilitate the site.
Or just click on this link :-
https://www.google.com/maps/place/34%C2%B052'18.0%22N+116%C2%B050'03.0%22W/@34.872626,-116.8342215,917m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d34.8716667!4d-116.8341667
This is what will happen in the long run. It’s ugly.