Windustry – an old idea made new
Happy Sliders Sunday, everyone!
My entry in the Ancient Modernity challenge at the Challenges Community Group
From The Wilderness Society:
In 2014 the BLM launched an effort to map wind energy resource potential on public lands in the West. When completed, this mapping tool will inform where wind projects are and are not built. Wind projects should be guided to the most appropriate places by:
* Siting wind facilities on brownfields (abandoned or underused industrial land) or other previously disturbed lands.
* Excluding wind development from sensitive areas Incentivizing development in areas that are pre-screened and found to have minimal environmental conflicts
* Siting associated transmission lines in low-conflict areas
* Offsetting unavoidable impacts from development or “mitigating” by protecting or restoring other lands and wildlife habitat.
wilderness.org/article/advancing-clean-energy?gclid=CjwKE...
Interesting website by project partner Argonne National Laboratory, with draft findings:
"The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is evaluating wind energy development potential and possible sensitivities with other resources on public lands across 11 western states. The West-Wide Wind Mapping Project maps wind energy resources on the public lands and identifies existing land use exclusions and other potential resource sensitivities that may affect wind energy development opportunities. The project has mapped the following areas:
•BLM-administered lands where wind energy development is excluded by law, BLM policy, or existing land use plan decisions;
•BLM-administered lands with potentially developable wind resources where environmental concerns or land use restrictions may require more extensive reviews for proposed wind energy projects; and
•Other BLM-administered lands with potentially developable wind resources."
Windustry – an old idea made new
Happy Sliders Sunday, everyone!
My entry in the Ancient Modernity challenge at the Challenges Community Group
From The Wilderness Society:
In 2014 the BLM launched an effort to map wind energy resource potential on public lands in the West. When completed, this mapping tool will inform where wind projects are and are not built. Wind projects should be guided to the most appropriate places by:
* Siting wind facilities on brownfields (abandoned or underused industrial land) or other previously disturbed lands.
* Excluding wind development from sensitive areas Incentivizing development in areas that are pre-screened and found to have minimal environmental conflicts
* Siting associated transmission lines in low-conflict areas
* Offsetting unavoidable impacts from development or “mitigating” by protecting or restoring other lands and wildlife habitat.
wilderness.org/article/advancing-clean-energy?gclid=CjwKE...
Interesting website by project partner Argonne National Laboratory, with draft findings:
"The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is evaluating wind energy development potential and possible sensitivities with other resources on public lands across 11 western states. The West-Wide Wind Mapping Project maps wind energy resources on the public lands and identifies existing land use exclusions and other potential resource sensitivities that may affect wind energy development opportunities. The project has mapped the following areas:
•BLM-administered lands where wind energy development is excluded by law, BLM policy, or existing land use plan decisions;
•BLM-administered lands with potentially developable wind resources where environmental concerns or land use restrictions may require more extensive reviews for proposed wind energy projects; and
•Other BLM-administered lands with potentially developable wind resources."