Easy Being Green: Biden Approves Campaign Donors’ Solar Project Over Environmentalist Objections
Intersect Power has raped the desert with Biden-approved solar farms, local resident claims. Reuters
President Joe Biden is awarding thousands of acres of public land to a solar energy company whose top executive helped him raise millions of dollars—even as environmentalists and local residents say the company’s project harms their desert community.
Biden’s Interior Department in the last year greenlit Intersect Power plans to build a desert solar farm on 2,600 acres of Southern California public land. This was a rare instance in which the Biden administration did not listen to environmental activists who claim that the project would destroy desert habitats and wildlife. The ability of Intersect to overcome this opposition probably validated the decision by executives to bankroll Biden’s campaign. Sheldon Kimber is Intersect’s CEO gave Biden raised $180,000 by raising funds for his presidential campaign. Minimum $3.2 Million Through two fundraising groups. Intersect’s top executives contributed a total of $1,050,000 to two fundraising groups. $413,000 Biden 2020
This isn’t the first time Biden has given support to a green-energy company that was connected with a major campaign fundraiser. Leaders of Clean Energy for Biden—a political group made up of “clean energy business and policy leaders” that bundled donations for the Democrat—saw Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg Publicly promote They started their businesses just months after Biden became president. Kimber was also part the influential fundraising team. Now working “advocate for just, equitable, and rapid decarbonization” Unter dem Namen “Clean Energy for America.”
The Interior Department did no respond to our request for comment. Ryan Nickel, an Intersect Power spokesperson and a former Democratic aide, was last year lobbied Intersect praised the Hopewell Fund as a liberal group that invests in dark money. “has a long track record of developing renewable energy projects in both the Trump and Biden administrations on public lands.”
Nickel did not make any comments on Kimber’s. Fundraising for the Biden campaign or whether Kimber discussed the company’s Biden administration-approved solar project with the White House, other than to note that it “is located in an area that was identified for solar development in 2010, ten years before Joe Biden was elected president.”
Clean Energy for Biden and Climate Groups helped the president Appeal to the environment left, a vote bloc that has successfully pressured Biden ever since Cancel public land projects over environmental concerns. When it comes
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