So... fricken... what...? "XYZ" [solar] at the cost of what? Allowing one rich guy to permanently occupy a section of public land? Without ever compensating the public for the immense wealth he'd extract from a public resource? This is basically giving the land to him permanently without ever paying for the billions the land is worth? If were a 99.999% revshare (meaning he keeps 0.001%) and a giant fund for the inevitable environmental cleanup were established I might think differently, but lets not play imagination here.

The previous generations destroyed public lands with dumping, dams, mines, etc in the name of progress or whatever, and the people that extracted the wealth packed their things and left the public with the mess to clean up. These procedures were established to sort of roadblock that, but even then it's still wrong. It's time to learn from the past. Decimating and absolutely destroying public land is something that shouldn't be on the table by alleged environmentalists.