Government sued over energy corridors

In what could be a major battle for today and tomorrow as well, that between environmental preservation and the development of Western-states energy resources, a variety of enviro groups have sued Obama Administration entities over power corridor siting in the West.

“It doesn’t make any sense for the agencies to invest all of this time and energy into a network of corridors that must be obsolete very soon if we’re going avoid the worst effects of climate change,” said Amy Atwood, a senior attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the 15 plaintiffs.

True enough as a stand-alone statement, Ms. Atwood. But, we’re going to face some of those same issues in the future, in the Southwest, over how to run electricity from solar and wind sites in the desert to the area’s big cities.