Blessing, 29 Palms Band.
Writers like conflict, and conflicts between competing ideas about our future are eternal and ongoing. But there are times when a deeper conflict manifests which can only be described as a conflict of the soul. The drama is about power; it is about energy; and how the burgeoning cities of the southwestern desert obtain that energy. Oh, yes, and I am a documentary film maker. Documentary means you film it from real life. If this were docu-drama... Solar Millennium executives could play both the protagonists and the antagonists. DISSOLVE TO SOLAR MILLENNIUM, OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA (Executives around the conference room) "We've got public opinion behind us, how can we really mess this up?" Let's backtrack. In November, 2009, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar detailed several California renewable energy projects that are on a fast track to be constructed in the desert. “Under President Obama's leadership, we have entered a new energy frontier," Salazar said. “By putting these renewable energy projects on a fast track, we are managing our public lands not just for conventional energy development but also for environmentally responsible renewable energy production that will power our clean energy future.”
Hennar Gladen represents Solar Millennium at the Estela meeting in Belgium. European Thermo Electricity Association
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