Greens against green energy
Environmentalists claim, with ever-increasing hysteria, that our consumption of carbon-based energy in pursuit of prosperity and economic growth is altering the earth’s climate. Human survival, they insist, requires the immediate abandonment of fossil fuels, which provide more than 80 percent of the world’s energy, in favor of carbon-free sources.
Yet, at the same time, environmentalist groups have vehemently opposed, as unacceptable intrusions on nature, projects involving every alternative form of energy ever proposed to replace fossil fuels—including such supposedly green ventures as wind farms and solar power plants. Here’s the latest example:
Solar energy developer BrightSource Energy Inc. proposed a 5130 acre power plant in the Broadwell Dry Lake area of California’s Mojave desert. But it quickly ran up against environmentalists seeking to declare Broadwell and surrounding regions off limits to commercial development……..