{"id":8085,"date":"2013-02-04T11:28:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T19:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=8085"},"modified":"2013-02-04T11:28:50","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T19:28:50","slug":"febmar-2013-issue-the-biggest-public-land-grab-green-energy-mainstream-environmentalism-jim-stiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/04\/febmar-2013-issue-the-biggest-public-land-grab-green-energy-mainstream-environmentalism-jim-stiles\/","title":{"rendered":"(Feb\/Mar 2013 issue)  &#8220;THE BIGGEST PUBLIC LAND GRAB: &#8216;Green Energy&#8217; &amp; Mainstream Environmentalism&#8221; &#8211;Jim Stiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 The Interior Department is leasing vast acreages of public land for the development of wind and solar projects. These aren\u2019t mom &amp; pop proposals to build rooftop panels; instead, they are being planned and constructed on a scale that should stagger the sensibilities of anyone with an environmental conscience.\u00a0 They represent the wholesale destruction of vast areas of the West&#8230;The driving force\u2013an economic one\u2013behind wind development is the Wind Production Tax Credit . It was due to expire at the end of 2012. But a last minute deal to extend the tax credit kept it alive.\u00a0 A letter supporting the Wind Production Tax Credit certainly helped. It was signed by\u00a0 The Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, The Wilderness Society, Defenders of Wildlife, The Nature Conservancy and the Audubon Society.\u00a0 And so, while there is still serious debate that these \u201cgreen\u201d developments\u00a0 can even begin to make a dent in our insatiable hunger for energy, the subsequent environmental damage to public lands cannot be understated. And yet suddenly, environmentalists don\u2019t seem to notice\u2026or care.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/02\/01\/take-it-or-leave-it-the-biggest-public-land-grab-by-jim-stiles\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8167\" alt=\"pq-picwind3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/pq-picwind3.jpg\" width=\"467\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/pq-picwind3.jpg 730w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/pq-picwind3-300x124.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0\u00a0 The Interior Department is leasing vast acreages of public land for the development of wind and solar projects. These aren\u2019t mom &amp; pop proposals to build rooftop panels; instead, they are being planned and constructed on a scale that should stagger the sensibilities of anyone with an environmental conscience.\u00a0 They represent the wholesale [&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-8085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8085","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=8085"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8178,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8085\/revisions\/8178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}