Comments on: Google maps draw a line in sand for clean energy

Environmentalists create cheat sheets about places where alternative-energy developers are least and most likely to be challenged.

[madjack59]

I wonder if the article would have been as positive if T. Boone Pickens had published Google Earth overlays that grabbed a bunch of these areas and declared, "These areas are legally available for my wind farms. If the environmentalists will just concede the point and get out of the way, then we can get started building immediately."

I'd feel much better about this "Path to Green Energy" effort if the creators didn't all come from one extreme end of the land use discussion.

[directorblue]

I wonder if the Enviro-Statists will apologize for the tens of millions of deaths they've caused in developing countries?

See "Genocide in Green":

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2009/03/genocide-in-green.html

[Seaspray0]

Let me guess. You've never ever caused any environmental damage whatsoever and your carbon footprint is squeeky clean, right? People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

[ksterett]

If a hundred MW of wind reduces the use of coal by 35 miles of train cars a year as well as the resulting contribution to global warming, acid rain, smog and enviromental decay, I wonder what the negative impact of one dedicated NIMBY player is on the enviroment.
The Audubon and Sierra clubs both have sientificly based policies in favor of wind - check out their web sites. If the urgency protrayed by the Audubon site is to be believed these folks and their NOPE (not on planet earth) answer to where we will install RE will cause the polar regions to melt before we are able to reduce their enforced carbon foot print.
If they are intrested in the enviroment, let them come forward with a map of the feasible locations with the energy to support the necessary improvement in our enviroment and hide the this "it can not be done anywhere" map