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 hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in loans to the photo voltaic producer in 2009, just for the corporate to file for chapter just a few years later.
The contractor for the Mojave Desert undertaking claimed his outfit was “shovel prepared,” when it really was not so.
If we can’t belief the guarantees made by these constructing these tasks, we threat 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 point out for it besides the destruction of habitat and wildlife.
J. Philip Barnes, San Pedro
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To the editor: Is there anybody accountable for this ridiculously damaging undertaking who has imaginative and prescient and customary sense?
To destroy an enormous and fragile ecosystem for a photo voltaic farm that may energy buildings far-off, when so a lot 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
