Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Obama's Energy Plan is Facing Opposition from Environmentalists

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A key part of President Obama's energy plan -- replacing fossil fuels with green alternatives -- is facing increasing opposition from environmentalists.

Some environmentalists, who have successfully fought a wind farm on the border of Oregon and Washington, are trying to block a massive solar plant in the Mojave desert. And now an Oregon county is considering a ban on wind power in the foothills of the blue mountains.

Richard Jolly of the Blue Mountain Alliance says 400-foot wind turbines are a bird-killing eyesore. The developer argues the danger to birds is exaggerated but admits every big energy project has its downside.

This arises a big question in me about the views of environmentalists about algae energy projects?

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1 comment:

  1. Not sure what you have in mind. Why should environmentalists object to algae fuels? Their reasons for objecting to wind farms are simple - wind farms do take up a lot of farm area in many places, and wind farms also can create noise pollution, and large scale wind farms could affect the environment in neighbouring areas. I don't see what types of environmental problems algae could create for the greens to go against it

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