Ozarkansas
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- Nov 10, 2020
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@Middleofnowhere thats a good response and thank you for getting things back on topic. I personally feel that ANY energy projects on public lands have pretty heavy downsides, and would much rather see most of these projects going on private land. I also think that advocating for using public lands for energy development runs against the interests of hunting and conservation. That being said y’all out west have so much public land that you can’t reasonably demand that, so I think it’s important to look at each project from an individual level. There’s definitely some horrible places to put solar and wind, just like oil and gas, but there’s also some low impact areas to do it (like rooftop solar or offshore wind that’s away from bird migration routes).