Obama has Nearly Quadrupled Renewable Energy on Public Lands

[ProSense]

Obama has Nearly Quadrupled Renewable Energy on Public Lands

December 31, 2011 By Susan Kraemer

With two years of the Obama administration, almost four times as much clean energy has been put on the grid on public lands as in all the previous 40 years.

All the renewable energy ever permitted on public lands totaled 1,800 MW by the end of 2008. In the last two years, the Department of the Interior has approved 6,600 MW of new projects.

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These include 16 solar projects, 4 wind farms and 7 geothermal plants. A boost in staff capable of reviewing renewable energy permits resulted in the much faster pace of approvals, according to Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar.

The uptick in clean energy permits marks a real change in US energy on government-owned land. Public lands have traditionally been approved for oil and gas leases which generate federal revenues of between $5 billion and $6 billion a year. To get an idea of the scale of this change, the total for the two years of Obama renewable energy projects approved will generate just under $1 billion a year to the federal coffers: $786 million annually.

http://cleantechnica.com/2011/12/31/obama-has-nearly-quadrupled-renewable-energy-on-public-lands/

[FarLeftFist]

1. K&R! Sometimes progress is measured one inch at a time.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

7. that's the thing of it!

It's so frustrating, yes, but if one doesn't understand that that's how large-scale change happens, the frustration wins, you give up and go look for "easier" satisfactions. Like rage and shooting yourself in the foot.

[spanone]

2. k&r...

[liberal N proud]

3. Wind dies and the sun sets. That is what I saw on a billboard today

I guess the coal industry keeps filling the air with polutants, the sun will be I affective in solar power.

[ProSense]

4. Or

"Wind dies and the sun sets," but coal kills

[liberal N proud]

5. That sounds like a great modification the sign needs

[Merlot]

6. The sun also rises...

Actually, the sun is always shining somewhere on earth.