Given that video I posted yesterday in which a BrightSource employee shreds an ancient* Mojave yucca in direct contravention of the conditions of the permit, and the fact that the BLM now expects to find a hundred more tortoises on the site than were allowed for in the permitting, it’s time for Ken Salazar to stop construction.

I’ve started a change.org petition to urge him to do just that.

Please sign it and tell all your friends to do the same.

* Jim Andre’s ballpark estimate of the plant’s age being 400-800 years

1. 
   william mcdonald 2011 04 11 at 8:09:01 pm

   Fantastic idea!

2. 
   Rebecca Swan 2011 04 12 at 9:11:32 am

   My browser (IE) doesn’t support change.org! Does anyone else have this problem?

3. 
   Chris Clarke 2011 04 12 at 2:34:08 pm

   Haven’t heard of that, Ms. Swan. What version of IE do you have?

4. 
   Fred Levitan 2011 04 12 at 3:57:16 pm

   Don’t know if you saw this yet…
   What ever happened to “Don’t be evil”?

5. 
   Fred Levitan 2011 04 12 at 4:28:21 pm

   There’s a spot on the Google Ivanpah blog page to link to their post - maybe you can figure out a way to get a link to here on the list of links - I couldn’t…

6. 
   Fred Levitan 2011 04 12 at 6:20:44 pm

   On second thought, you probably don’t want that traffic - but it would provide some visibility for an alternate perspective.  Any way to game their system?

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   Rebecca Swan 2011 04 12 at 7:23:04 pm

   I believe it’s IE8 - whatever the latest one is. I’ve never had this problem. I get a message that tells me to download google or firefox or something else. Wierd. Maybe I’ll contact change.org. I’ll let you know what I come up with. I think a lot of people would just stop when they got that message - and we sure don’t want anyone to stop. Thank you so much for your good work.

8. 
   Sylvan 2011 04 12 at 8:45:10 pm

   Oh look - apparently it’s sea turtles versus desert turtles:

   http://sierraclub.typepad.com/michaelbrune/2011/04/sea-turtles-puerto-rico-oil-drilling.html

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   Chris Clarke 2011 04 12 at 11:58:35 pm

   I saw that, Sylvan. Brune doesn’t explain how buying a solar panel is going to keep you from buying gasoline for your car — which is where most of the Gulf oil is going.

10. 
    Rebecca Swan 2011 04 13 at 9:23:55 am

    OK, you tell me. I can’t sign a petition objecting to Ivanpah Construction because I get blocked by a message that I have to use GOOGLE. It says that it does not support IE 6. I don’t have IE 6. I am completely blocked from change.org by this popup telling me I have to download a google browser. Is that $168 million deal just a coincidence?