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Sierra Club teams with Westside farmers to ride the solar wave

Posted by: Maven on March 7, 2010 at 8:02 am

From the Sierra 2 the Sea website:

“They are unlikely allies. The largest farm water district in the state and two of the best known environmental groups, NRDC and the Sierra Club.

On the opposite side of the table on many issues these strange bedfellows are now on the same wavelength when it comes to a proposal that recently surfaced to build utility-size solar panel farms on thousands of acres of fallow land in the Westlands Water District.

“We’re more than excited about the idea – we are introducing the sponsors to all the groups and permitting agencies they need to get approvals from” says the Sierra Club’s Carl Zichella, Director of Western Renewable Programs.”We want to help make it happen.”

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)attorney Johanna Wald aggress. “Conceptually this is great location for large scale solar on land already severely degraded and close to statewide transmission lines.” … “

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March 7, 2010 · Filed Under Water Agency News

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