Wednesday, June 25, 2008 | 2:02 a.m.
This is in response to your June 18 story about the moratorium on solar plants on federal land until the Bureau of Land Management finishes a study of their environmental impacts.
To avoid the estimated 22-month delay while this study is under way, consideration should be given to locating solar plants on vacant land at freeway interchanges. In urban areas, no transmission lines over sensitive lands would be required, avoiding another cost and objections raised by the environmentalists.
When Gov. Jim Gibbons took office, he proposed selling the water rights under the freeways, a proposal that did not pan out. This use of existing open land for solar energy might be more practical, and the lease income from these locations could provide ongoing revenue to the state.
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