Washington State Solar Project Paused Amid Concern About Native Cultural Sites
Washington State Solar Project Paused Amid Concern About Native Cultural Sites
Jesus fucking christ how hard is it to find a site to build on that isn't some sacred site to the local indigenous folks‽
There is a literal third of a continent of land out there, just filter land with religious significance before you enter the planning phase!
Just use roofs.
Unfortunately you can’t just “filter” out lands with cultural heritage significance, first you have to conduct a survey to determine where they are.
a land survey funded by the developer, Avangrid Renewables, had omitted more than a dozen sites of archaeological or cultural significance on the public parcel included in the project area. (Emphasis mine)
The developer essentially lied on a state form by omitting more than a dozen sites. This pause is good, and could have been avoided if the developer had not been disingenuous, greedy, and disrespectful of the indigenous community.
Capitalists gonna capital, and developers gonna develop.
It's amazing how many self-described environmentalists keep chanting "build more solar!" and "build more wind!" and "build more nuclear!" as if the developers for those projects aren't the exact same people building subdivisions and coal power plants and bulldozing endangered species and historic sites to make a buck. As if we can develop our way out of the global environmental collapse we developed our way into. It's hilarious, except it's not funny at all.
