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Stop The Golden Currant Solar Project!

July 28, 2022 Solar Projects 2Comments 777Views 0Likes

Approximately 40 minutes west of the Las Vegas Valley is an area of Mojave Desert habitat around 30,000 acres that big developers would like to make a solar sacrifice zone. The applications are in and being reviewed, and our window to stop them is short. The Bureau of Land Management is accepting public comment on one of these projects named…

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Yellow Pine Solar Desert Tortoise Deaths Makes News

July 28, 2021 Solar Projects, Wildlife 0Comments 1152Views 1Like

Kevin and Laura were recently on hand to speak with journalists at the Yellow Pine Solar project in the South Pahrump Valley to discuss the deaths of several translocated Mojave desert tortoises. Sadly some 30 of the 139 translocated tortoises from the project site have died in a matter of weeks, raising concerns about the solar development’s impact on the…

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Nevada is moving forward with the GreenLink transmission system, which enables an unprecedented opening up of 9 million acres of public lands for industrial energy development, mostly solar, with no regard for the fragile but rich ecosystems in the Mojave and Great Basin. Desert Apocalypse, as the name suggests, is an exposé of this plan to destroy our deserts.

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