Balancing Renewable Energy Projects & Public Lands Stewardship


It’s a fine balance between progress and preservation. If we destroy what we are trying to protect, then what was the point? You can read about the same issues happening in England, where they are planning on building a 10 mile long, �19bn, 8.5GW hydroelectric tidal barrage across an enormous river estuary? It would produce 5% of the UK’s total energy requirements, and it is reported that it would be the biggest renewable project in the world, if it were to be built. But the problem is with the birds and the fish that will be impacted. Now the fight goes on to decide the balance. Is the greater good the underlining argument when we put at risk other vital elements of our eco-system?

https://thenilonreport.com/2009/01/environmentalist-dichotomy-severn.html
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