A Bureau of Land Management staffing shortage is the biggest impediment to renewable energy development on public lands in the West, bureau director Tracy Stone-Manning said Friday.
Staffing is a bigger impediment to renewable development on the 245 million acres of land the bureau manages, not lengthy environmental reviews required under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Stone-Manning said, speaking at the Society of Environmental Journalists conference in Boise, Idaho.
The land bureau is in the process of permitting about 68 solar power projects in the West that could deliver 32 gigawatts of electric power, with a backlog of about ...
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