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Monday, March 22, 2010 | 10:25 a.m.
The Bureau of Land Management is ready to release the draft environmental impact statement for the proposed Amargosa Farm Road Solar Energy Project planned for the Amargosa Valley. Solar Millennium plans to build the 242-megawatt solar thermal power plant about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
The Environmental Impact Statement is meant to reveal all the potential environmental impacts the project could have in the area and outline proposed mitigation measures. The public will be given 45 days to comment on the document before it goes back to the Bureau of Land Management for final approval.
The BLM is also holding a series of public meetings to gather comments about the environmental impact statement and the project in general.
They will be from 6-8 p.m. at:
-- Amargosa Valley Community Center (821 E. Amargosa Farm Road, Amargosa Valley), April 6
-- Beatty Community Center Hall (100 S. A Avenue, Beatty), April 7
-- Pahrump Library (701 East Street, Pahrump), April 13
-- Centennial Hills YMCA (6601 N. Buffalo Dr., Las Vegas), April 14
To view the report, click here.
For more information, e-mail solar_millennium@blm.gov.
Good for them. Build it.
Just imagine sending your kids off to to their first grade school each day knowing that the school is located about one mile from a large industrial power plant that is heating a highly toxic and flamable substance called Therminol (heat transfer fluid)with a flash point of 750 degrees F.
Solar Millennium intends to build this plant right next to the Amargosa Elementary School. They refuse to move it!
What would happen if there was a large chemical explosion during school hours? Is this energy innefficient boondoggle really worth endangering the lives of local children?
Where is the Interior Secretary? I am sure this will impact a desert flower or a grouse. We cannot allow our scarce precious federal lands to be developed by these greedy capitalist just trying to make a profit. How dare they.
The transmission lines will be ugly and cause more disruption of the wild unblemished land. We need to preserve this for future generations to enjoy.
Just tax energy until people quit using it, a much better future for tomorrows collective Utopia.
Hi I think you are doing exactly the right thing, be part of it ... invest and don't complain.
Better ask them how you can help to finance this thing. Do the right thing for a better future and be amongts those to earn the fruits ohterwise others will make the money! I suspect they may offer bonds and stocks. I would love to see those close to the place also being the ones having the most value from it ...
It's for our all future, ...
Nevermind you're doing the right thing and the world will look up to you, as the place where our all better future began !
Also gas stations are full of toxic explosive gasoline in the middle of your place, ;-)
The school is over a mile away and the plant will likely run for over 30 years without any problems ...