Environmentally responsible solar projects on our public lands can both help meet our climate and clean energy needs and protect our beloved wildlands and crucial wildlife habitat.
Solar development should not come at the cost of wilderness-quality lands and places important for wildlife habitat.
The BLM can get solar energy right on public lands with a program that guides solar energy projects to areas where they’re most likely to do the least harm to the environment and where they’re most likely to be accepted by local citizens by ensuring that large solar projects are built primarily in the zones.
Tell the Bureau of Land Management {BLM}to ensure that solar development on public lands is smart from the start and avoids the many conflicts, controversies and impacts that have plagued oil and gas development on public lands. Take a common-sense approach that will allow solar development that is faster, cheaper and better for the environment and consumers.
SOURCE and Additional Petition:
https://secure.wilderness.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2403
Shannon Stewart
Bureau of Land Management's Solar Development Program
Solar Energy Draft Programmatic EIS
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 S. Cass Avenue—EVS/240
Argonne, Illinois 60439
http://solareis.anl.gov/.
Environmentally responsible solar projects on our public lands can both help meet our climate and clean energy needs and protect our beloved wildlands and crucial wildlife habitat.
Solar development should not come at the cost of wilderness-quality lands and places important for wildlife habitat.
The BLM can get solar energy right on public lands with a program that guides solar energy projects to areas where they’re most likely to do the least harm to the environment and where they’re most likely to be accepted by local citizens by ensuring that large solar projects are built primarily in the zones.
We ask the Bureau of Land Management {BLM}to ensure that solar development on public lands is smart from the start and avoids the many conflicts, controversies and impacts that have plagued oil and gas development on public lands. Take a common-sense approach that will allow solar development that is faster, cheaper and better for the environment and consumers.
