Climate Extremists’ Hideous Wind Farms Are Coming To Your Backyard

Magic Valley Energy will soon install 400 wind turbines at 740 feet tall, along with 485 miles worth of new roads and transmission lines. Buildings filled with half-ton batteries modules can be found on over 197,000 acres. Lava Ridge In the southwestern Idaho.

The company is named after a beautiful valley that soon won’t be nearly so magical.

The acreage is equal to 15 percent of Delaware, and the turbines, at 740 feet tall, are larger than the Washington Monument — an appropriate comparison because the project is being advanced in cooperation with a climate-obsessed Biden administration determined to replace fossil fuels with “clean” energy.

The Administration believes that saving the planet from computer models for man-made climate disasters is more important than saving land and scenery, wildlife, and ways to live from the ravages from wind and solar.

The U.S. actually has the U.S. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working with other federal agencies to speed up approvals of solar and wind permits, regardless of the impact on Mother Earth. They’ve even decreed that bald and golden eagles killed by wind turbines are merely “incidental takings” — unintentional losses due to otherwise lawful activities — and thus irrelevant in permitting decisions. They also fail to consider the incomprehensible amount of mining required (in distant lands with lax environmental standards). metals, minerals, and concrete These installations will require.

These realities aside, President Joe Biden is calling for 25 gigawatts (onshore) wind electricity by 2025, and 30 GW offshore wind power by 2030. (An example: One gigawatt is equal power to 1.3 million horses).

This idea of “25 by ’25” And “30 by ’30” It’s catchy. But it’s unlikely to be achieved. The electricity will be there only when the wind unpredictably blows — perhaps 40 hours a week, 2,200 hours a year, for a few hours or days at a stretch. For that, up to 5,000 windmills are required. nameplate capacity There are more than 2,500 turbines over 850 feet high and 12 MW of power available for the offshore scheme.

There will be opposition. Some will not be pleased. 460 U.S. communities You can find it here “rejected or restricted” Robert Bryce, an energy analyst, observes that there have been many wind and solar projects in 2015 so far. However, it’s much harder to block projects like Lava Ridge because most of that land is federally owned and managed.

The locals are certainly not happy, as the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow’s Gabriella Hoffman and Fox News’ Jesse Watters learned. The huge Lava Ridge industrial wind farm would be located just two miles from Craters Of the Moon National Monument. It would cause destruction of magnificent views, kill numerous bats and raptors, decrease surface water flow and adversely affect farming and ranching.

Worst of all, the electricity generated at Lava Ridge won’t stay in Lava Ridge or even Idaho. It will be exported — primarily to power-hungry California. The home of Hollywood celebrities and Gavin Newsom already imports more than one-fourth of the electricity it consumes — because leftist elites don’t want coal or gas,