Impacts of Green Energy on Conservation
The Obama administration is pushing renewable energy via the stimulus package, Congress is developing a climate change bill, and green energy appears to be the wave of the future. This is all good news, but the land trust community should be alert to the ways that new electric transmission lines, wind farms and solar arrays might conflict with their conservation goals.
A Nature Conservancy study predicts that energy production will occupy an additional 79,000 square miles of land by 2030, and a recent article in The Washington Post details the underestimated impact of alternative energy projects (“Renewable Energy’s Environmental Paradox”).
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