{"id":1365,"date":"2005-07-03T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-03T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/07\/03\/good-policy-or-another-giveaway\/"},"modified":"2005-07-03T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-03T20:13:00","slug":"good-policy-or-another-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/good-policy-or-another-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Policy or Another Giveaway?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Normally, I’m pretty positive about wind power developments, but this announcement<\/a> from the Bureau of Land Management<\/a> left me a bit conflicted. On the one hand, it’s great to see at least one division of the federal government embracing wind power; on the other, though, this has feel of the federal land giveaway to the oil and gas companies recently.<\/a> I’m always a bit skeptical when I read about “expediting permits” from our current government… I will say (in case this comes up) that I don’t think this is in the same league with the Cape Wind Project in the Northeast<\/a> — that’s a single project, while this opens up all BLM land to a quick permitting process. I certainly don’t want to see more of the same kinds of issues that have arisen around the Altamont Pass wind farm<\/a>.<\/p>\n From RenewableEnergyAccess.com via Alternative Energy~Renewable Energy<\/a>.<\/p>\n Technorati tags: wind power<\/a>, BLM<\/a><\/p>\n