{"id":403191,"date":"2019-04-16T01:27:10","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T00:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/vacant-land-myth-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2019-04-16T01:27:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T00:27:10","slug":"vacant-land-myth-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/vacant-land-myth-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Vacant Land Myth\u2019 – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From New York to California, localities have taken action to stymie solar and wind energy projects to preserve their way of life, according to Manhattan Institute senior fellow Robert Bryce.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll-renewable scenarios rely on the vacant-land myth, the faulty notion that there\u2019s endless amounts of unused, uncared-for land out there in flyover country that\u2019s ready and waiting to be covered with forests of renewable-energy stuff,\u201d Bryce told Senate lawmakers in a hearing Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe truth is quite different,\u201d Bryce said in prepared testimony for the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.<\/p>\n

\u201cRural communities, even entire states, are resisting or rejecting wind, solar, and high-voltage transmission projects and that opposition is already slowing deployment of new renewable capacity in the U.S., Canada, and Europe,\u201d Bryce said.<\/p>\n


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\n<\/span>Bryce chastised the \u201cscant\u201d media coverage of the growing resistance to renewable energy projects, which is especially important given Democrats push for sweeping plans, like the Green New Deal, to significantly ramp up renewable energy use.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy contrast, national media coverage of the growing backlash against deployment of large-scale renewable-energy projects has been scant,\u201d Bryce said. \u201cThat lack of media coverage is particularly true when it comes to controversies about wind-energy deployment.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just wind energy development, Bryce said, but opposition to renewables in general that the media has glossed over in recent years. But that opposition complicates sweeping plans,\u00a0like the Green New Deal<\/a>, to power the U.S. on renewables.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince 2015, I have been tracking rural opposition to wind energy…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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From New York to California, localities have taken action to stymie solar and wind energy projects to preserve their way of life, according to Manhattan Institute senior fellow Robert Bryce. \u201cAll-renewable scenarios rely on the vacant-land myth, the faulty notion that there\u2019s endless amounts of unused, uncared-for land out there in flyover country that\u2019s ready […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-403191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}