The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is reportedly doing a poor job of protecting the public's interests in managing/structuing renewable energy projects on public lands. The report noted below deals with a couple of topics thus far beyond the interests of governments (and relevant to Ontario's "Renewable Energy on Crown Land Policy" currently in comment period on the Environmental Registry): bonding, monitoring, and enforcing compliance.
"June 24, 2012 (Washington D.C.) – A scathing new report by the U.S. Department of Interior’s Inspector General highlights “significant failures” by the federal Bureau of Land Managment in its stewardship over more than 30,000 wind energy right-of-way (ROW) acres and another 31,000 acres of solar energy ROW sites. View the complete report at http://www.doioig.gov/images/stories/reports/pdf/CR-EV-BLM-0004-2010Public.pdf.
In addition, the report exposed “weakness in financial accountability and resource protection including obligations to protect the Government’s financial interest by collecting rental revenues, managing the bond process, and by appropriate monitoring and enforcing ROW requirements.”"
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“Our review of wind project files revealed very little inspection documentation for wind projects and no monitoring plans,” the report found.Read the entire article at the East County Magazine website:
One Government department criticising another without any firm action taking place!
ReplyDeleteSounds exactly like Ontario where one agency criticises another pointing out it's failings and then silence!
The same thing is happening in the mainstream media. Huge headlines exposing McGuinty's screw-ups and then nothing. (follow the ORNGE scandal).
People are getting so comfortable with just accepting the "stories" that they don't go beyond the initial opening salvo against these criminal acts. Usually when someone is exposed as having committed a crime, the next step is "charging" that individual and then pursuing them to the final end of being found innocent or guilty. Not so the various Governments any more.
It's called: "CONTROLLED OPPOSITION" .................look it up....................