US surpasses renewable energy goal for public lands

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Source: Reuters

April 11, 2024 5:41 PM EDT Updated 12 min ago


April 11 (Reuters) - The Biden administration on Thursday said the U.S. had surpassed a goal of permitting more than 25 gigawatts of clean energy projects on public lands by 2025 and finalized a plan to slash project fees for wind and solar energy on federal acreage.

WHY IT'S IMPORTANT

The announcement marks the latest effort by the administration of President Joe Biden to leverage the nation's 250 million acres of federal land to reach his goal of decarbonizing the U.S. power grid by 2035.

The permitted projects also appeared to satisfy a Congressional mandate from 2020 that the Interior Department permit at least 25 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2025.

KEY QUOTE

"We know that clean energy including transmission lines, solar energy and storage projects on public lands is helping communities across the country to be part of the climate solution while creating good paying jobs," Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said on a call with reporters.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-surpasses-renewable-energy-goal-public-lands-2024-04-11/

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Link to Department of Interior PRESS RELEASE - Biden-Harris Administration Delivers Historic Milestones, New Actions for Clean Energy on Public Lands

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1. It takes some courage and clear thinking to question whether the industrialization of wilderness for...

...so called "renewable energy" is a good thing.

Speaking for myself, I find it disgusting, obscene actually.

In the days of John Muir, who founded the Sierra club, he fought the industrialization of wilderness. By contrast, the modern Sierra club never sees a wilderness it doesn't want to develop into an industrial park filled with semiconductors, access roads, plastic monstrosities, wires and other junk that future generations will need to clean up.

Specifically, Muir founded the Sierra Club to save the Hetch Hetchy valley. He lost. It now produces so called "renewable energy" (which has failed miserably to address climate change) and even if the dam were removed, the valley will be filled with mud.

I love Joe Biden but in this area, where I disagree with him - although I'm a nearly rabid supporter of the DOE policy on nuclear energy - I am inclined to channel the views of Fredrick Douglass assessing Abraham Lincoln.

Viewed from the genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his country, a sentiment he was bound as a statesman to consult, he was swift, zealous, radical, and determined.

Frederick Douglass, Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln.

I added the bold to further my point; President Biden is bound as a statesman to consult our sentiments, sentiments I might add I find disastrous.

To wit:

With respect to nuclear energy, one could substitute the word "pro-nuclear" for "abolition," and "Biden" for "Lincoln" and summarize exactly how I feel.

I note that both Lincoln and Biden encapsulate very well the fortuitous American tradition of following its worst Presidencies with its greatest. The causes are different, but the urgency for both men, Lincoln and Biden alike, is unambiguous.

Climate change is rapidly being revealed to be the most serious issue before humanity, and since so called "Renewable energy" is a reactionary failure at addressing it, a little "swift, zealous, radical and determined" respect for the going nuclear against climate change is very much required.

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2. Best President of my lifetime