Enviros are getting angry that other enviros are suing to to block green projects because they harm the environment:
Several solar thermal power plant projects to be constructed on public lands are on hold pending lawsuits by environmental groups, including Sierra Club, and Native American tribes. The Sierra Club petitioned the California Supreme Court to overturn the license for the Calico Solar Energy Project because it would harm desert tortoise and other wildlife. California Unions for Reliable Energy, a labor group, filed a similar petition. Calico is a 663.5 megawatt (MW) solar power project.
Solar Millenium filed an application with the California Energy Commission to build a 250 MW solar trough plant on 3,920 acres of government-owned land in the desert, called the Ridgecrest Project. Local officials had several complaints about the project, including the 815 million gallons of water a year the project would need to cool the power plant, so project organizers switched to a more efficient cooling technology. Local officials were also concerned the Mohave ground squirrel, a protected species, might be harmed. As a result, Solar Millennium canceled the project in January after 16 months after trying to get it approved.
“A review of the record strongly suggests California agency’s staff is unlikely to be open to a recommendation of approval,” Josef Eichhammer, chief executive of Solar Millenium’s American subsidiary, wrote in a Jan. 21 letter to state officials. “In light of these circumstances, it would not be economically viable to continue to pursue either the study or the project.”
“It’s green-on-green violence,” said Ted Sullivan, an analyst at Lux Research in New York. “Do you want reduced carbon emissions or do you want to save an endangered species?”
“No blood for solar!” The rest here.