The US government has lifted the temporary moratorium on building solar plants.Faced with a flood of proposals for building of solar plants on government land,the Bureau of Land Management US had previously enacted a two year ban on all projects ostensibly for studying the impact of such plants on the desert ecosystem.While earlier it seem that the govt was genuinely interested in analyzing the environmental impact of such plant ,this rollback seems to indicate otherwise.It now seems that the ban was just a means to arm itself with more manpower to study all the proposals it had in the pipeline.Worse, it also indicates that the exercise was meant as a PR stunt to convince environmentalists of its noble intentions.
There can and must not be any two ways for achieving energy sufficiency.It is imperative to promote clean energy technologies ,but not at the cost of creating another danger to the environment.It is true that solar power is an attractive large scale power generation technology . However a sudden spurt of numerous such plants would undoubtedly impact the ecosystem which should be throughly analyzed to minimize the hazards.
