[CPEO-BIF] California "Desert Energy Plan Ignores Major EPA Renewables Tool"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Desert Energy Plan Ignores Major EPA Renewables Tool

by Chris Clarke
Rewire/KCET (CA)
December 26, 2012

Authors of a gigantic, multi-year plan to develop as much as two  
million acres of the California Desert for renewable energy seem to  
be unaware that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has gotten  
there first. The EPA has spent the last four years inventorying two  
million acres of polluted land in California that might be suitable  
for renewable energy development, but their work doesn't even rate a  
mention in the upcoming desert energy plan.

A preliminary guide to the content of the mammoth Desert Renewable  
Energy Conservation Plan (DRECP), includes thousands of pages of  
description of what we'll see in the DRECP when it's finally  
published. But one thing it seems not to include is any mention of  
the EPA's RePowering America's Lands initiative, a multi-year, multi- 
million-dollar project that has already identified millions of acres  
of contaminated lands suitable for renewable energy development,  
including sites in the California desert.

The DRECP's recently released Description and Comparative Evaluation  
of Draft DRECP Alternatives is a huge document intended only as a  
preliminary guide to DRECP's eventual Draft Environmental Impact  
Statement, and ReWire may have missed a stray paragraph or footnote  
referencing the EPA's project.

...

For the entire story, see
http://www.kcet.org/news/rewire/government/drecp/desert-energy-plan- 
ignores-major-epa-renewables-tool.html

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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