To the editor: Your article describing habitat and wildlife destruction to assemble a solar energy plant within the Mojave Desert brings to thoughts the shameful government-subsidized Solyndra episode of years again. In that occasion, the Obama administration assured lots of of tens of millions of {dollars} in loans to the photo voltaic producer in 2009, just for the corporate to file for chapter a number of years later.
The contractor for the Mojave Desert venture claimed his outfit was “shovel prepared,” when it really was not so.
If we can not belief the guarantees made by these constructing these tasks, we danger destroying lots of of Joshua bushes solely to finish up with technical or monetary final failure, as with Solyndra. This time, we’d don’t have anything to indicate for it besides the destruction of habitat and wildlife.
J. Philip Barnes, San Pedro
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To the editor: Is there anybody in control of this ridiculously damaging venture who has imaginative and prescient and customary sense?
To destroy an enormous and fragile ecosystem for a photo voltaic farm that can energy buildings far-off, when so lots of these exact same buildings have rooftops good for photo voltaic panels, is the very definition of madness.
We myopically proceed to destroy the very pure capital that sustains us. How lengthy earlier than Earth offers up on our species?
Sara R. Nichols, Los Angeles
