Lars Larson: Wipe out a forest, plant solar panels, call it green?

By Lars Larson
NW and national radio host,

The Northwest Nonsense

The environmental crowd surely makes it hard to figure out their definition of “green”.

Consider the more than 8-thousand acres of pristine forest located right next to the Klamath River in Southern Oregon.

If anyone proposed to cut those trees into lumber, environmentalists would haul your rear end into the nearest court to stop you.

But now, the same folks plan to chop down those ponderosa piles and douglas firs to build literally the biggest solar power farm in Oregon.

Six miles West of Klamath Falls and half a mile North of the small town of Keno, they want to install 850-thousand solar panels.

If you think clear cuts are ugly, what would you think of that?

Legacy media ain’t doing much with this story, but that’s true of almost anything going on more than a few hours outside the big metro areas of the Northwest.

Joyce Furlong of the Keno Wildlands Alliance tells me only 4 percent of America’s solar farms sit on forest land.

It makes you wonder why anyone would plan to wipe out 13 square miles of trees to build a 400 megawatt solar farm so far away from any big population of utility customers.

Is someone planning a new power-sucking data center?

That’s the Rose City Rap. Join me at noon on KXL for 4 hours of Honestly provocative talk. I’m Lars Larson