You Just Can't Get Away From Them - They Are Like Annoying Insects!

 It doesn’t matter where you go there always seems to some ass----! wind developer willing to screw up more pristine land for NOTHING.  I saw this tiny article crammed way down in the corner of our paper here in Flagstaff.  And WHO ELSE could it be…why of course our same good friends BP that are trying to screw up Ca BP e Vincent. This wind farm is not near Flagstaff but is NW of Kingman, AZ an area about 120 west of Flagstaff where we have camped numerous times.

Some might say, “Well who cares it’s out in the stinking desert.”  Well then let’s put them in Lake Ontario since there aren’t a lot of people out there either. The desert and our remote US lands are NOT the nation’s trash barrel, although some idiots that have never been there and understand the unique fragile environment think so. They are YOUR public lands. 

                                                  The US deserts are not ugly wastelands. 
                                  Wind developers and solar developers should not be crapping
                         up these places any more than they should Cape Vincent of the 1000 Islands.

California  Poppy Preserve in the high desert N. of Los Angeles

The endangered Desert Tortoise.  They are losing desert habitat at an alarming rate.

Looks like they just lost 47,000more acres.  Of course I am sure some will

go the the public hearing to complain!

The environmental conditions this creature must deal with are

 already severe. If you pick one up he may urinate,

 and that will eliminate much of his stored

water supply, and he could die soon after as a result

                                                The Virgin Mts. near Mesquite NV.

This wind farm will encroach on a wilderness, as well as the Lake Mead National Recreation Area and it starts to encroach on the lower reaches of Grand Canyon.  47,000 acres for WHAT?  Absolutely NOTHING. Screw up 47,000 acres with 283 useless wind turbines for a tax scam for an unethical foreign developer with a record of environmental disasters, for this wind complex  that will do NOTHING to solve our energy of climate issues. NOTHING!!!

That is why many of us out here in the WEST call the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)…the Bureau of Land Manglement !!!  Since your tax dollars are helping to make this wind farm possible AND you tax dollars are going to the BLM who is supposed to protect and manage that land and you would think should know better…we the American tax payer get DOUBLY SCREWED.  Actually it’s worse because if we decide to sue to protect our public lands we are going to pay for that too.  SO….

             BEND OVER ONCE AGAIN!!!!!

Since the BLM leases some public land to ranchers and miners etc…and now tax scamming wind developers apparently… I saw this sign on a fence post out in the Mojave Desert.

BP claims 500 megawatts for that 47,000 acres. But figuring capacity factors of about 25% that would equate to a paltry unreliable 125MW.  For comparison, the town of Cape Vincent encompasses about 36,000 acres according to our CV Comp Plan, and that includes the CV islands.  For more comparison the Palo Verde nuke plant in AZ near Phoenix is rated at 3800MW and sits on 4000 acres.  Wind Farms are such a pointless waste.

On a desert trip I saw this visitor come into our camp. 

 I thought it was a wind developer at first so I jumped back in horror. and got a shovel to remove him from the area.  I was confused because I remember stories of Acciona's Todd Hopper pulling out his shirt and mussing up his hair trying to fake he was just a regular guy and to blend in.  So I thought maybe this was just one more sneaky wind developer hack trying to blend in to the desert. Then I thought I could write  a wind law with setbacks so he will go away.   ButI calmed down when upon closer inspection I saw it was a just a tarantula.  So I let him go about his business, and I went about mine.

Unlike wind developers tarantulas are relatively harmless and respectful of their environment and others.