Feds Bar New Mining Claims in Solar Energy Zones - ABC News

The War on the West continues.  Thank you Harry Reid.

Here’s the story:  Feds Bar New Mining Claims in Solar Energy Zones - ABC News .  It doesn’t say where those energy zones are in Nevada. I guess we’re not really allowed to know until it’s a fait accompli.  A simple search turns up one such location as being the Amargosa Valley.

This is a perfect example of how funding is obtained and general acquiesence is obtained under the rubric of “clean energy”, which has a wider following than just strict conservation/eco-friendly concepts.  But the AIM of  removing the land from development for mining, or presumably any other purpose, is “Excluding these areas will mitigate many potential impacts, including impacts on Death Valley National Park and desert tortoise.”  That’s a clear statement from the Solar Energy Development Programme EIS.

From this, can we conclude the feds would not have been successful at getting this land removed from public and mining use unless they had applied the “solar energy zone” designation to it.  Protecting, allegedly, the tortoise would not have cut it.