[CPEO-BIF] Solar proposed for another type of brown field

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Recycling Land for Green Energy Ideas

By TODD WOODY
New York Times
August 10, 2010

LEMOORE, Calif. - Thousands of acres of farmland here in the San Joaquin 
Valley have been removed from agricultural production, largely because 
the once fertile land is contaminated by salt buildup from years of 
irrigation.

But large swaths of those dry fields could have a valuable new use in 
their future — making electricity.

Farmers and officials at Westlands Water District, a public agency that 
supplies water to farms in the valley, have agreed to provide land for 
what would be one of the world’s largest solar energy complexes, to be 
built on 30,000 acres.

At peak output, the proposed Westlands Solar Park would generate as much 
electricity as several big nuclear power plants.

Unlike some renewable energy projects blocked by objections that they 
would despoil the landscape, this one has the support of environmentalists.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/11/business/energy-environment/11solar.html?_r=1

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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