{"id":15664,"date":"2016-06-04T15:26:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T20:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=15664"},"modified":"2016-05-31T21:27:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T02:27:59","slug":"counterpunch-taking-on-the-sacred-cow-of-big-green-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/04\/counterpunch-taking-on-the-sacred-cow-of-big-green-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"(CounterPunch) Taking on the Sacred Cow of Big \u201cGreen\u201d Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The deserts of the American Southwest have come under a new assault in the last decade. The few, fragmented areas of these austere, rugged, yet delicate landscapes that had managed to survive relatively intact from mining, ranching, military use (including nuclear tests), urban encroachment and motorized recreation, are now being targeted for the development of large-scale \u201cgreen\u201d energy projects, many of them on public lands.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2016\/05\/13\/taking-on-the-sacred-cow-of-big-green-energy\/\">Click Here to Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2016\/05\/13\/taking-on-the-sacred-cow-of-big-green-energy\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14958 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/solarpower-e1452107686276.jpg\" alt=\"solarpower\" width=\"550\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt: The deserts of the American Southwest have come under a new assault in the last decade. The few, fragmented areas of these austere, rugged, yet delicate landscapes that had managed to survive relatively intact from mining, ranching, military use (including nuclear tests), urban encroachment and motorized recreation, are now being targeted for the development [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15665,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15664\/revisions\/15665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}