Nevada senator (Harry Reid) pushes for wind farm clearances

[jpak]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2007/oct/03/100310170.html

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, continuing a clean-energy push, said Wednesday he has asked Defense Secretary Robert Gates to get the military to finally decide whether to support potential wind-farm sites in Nevada.

Reid said Gates now understands the "bureaucratic shuffle" that has led to long delays for wind-farm developers seeking a military sign-off on their plans, and will ask Navy and Air Force secretaries to "see if someone can make a decision."

"Let's have someone make a decision and not give people the run-around for months and months and months," Reid, D-Nev., added during a telephone interview.

The big military concern in Nevada, where 86 percent of the land is controlled by the federal government, is that electricity-producing wind farms on mountain ridges or other windy areas might interfere with radar used to track aircraft, Reid said.

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[kestrel91316]

1. Harry is doing well on energy - he is opposing the three coal-fired

power plants proposed for White Pine County.

But he is still DEAD WRONG in his support for the Vegas water grab. Vegas needs to put the brakes on growth. That city is completely unsustainable in the long run.

[NMDemDist2]

2. i think the housing bubble burst will help put the brakes on n/t