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The latest on the Key Bridge collapse, New York puts forth legislation to get clean energy projects on the grid and Wisconsin and other states join a federal summer food program to help feed kids across the country.

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Urgen a la Casa Blanca que se desarrolle la Energía Limpia en NM

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Wednesday, August 24, 2011   

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Antes de que el Presidente Barack Obama saliera de vacaciones, se reunió con grupos de personas en varios puntos del medio oeste. Un miembro del grupo que se encontró con el Presidente Obama en Iowa es David Melton, Presidente Ejecutivo de la empresa "Sacred Power Corporation" con sede en Albuquerque.

Melton fue a entregar un mensaje y una carta suscrita por una docena de líderes empresariales, también dirigida al Secretario del Interior Ken Salazar; en el escrito instan al Presidente a que trabaje más rápido con socios tribales, federales, estatales y privados para crear empleos locales y que protejan los tesoros nacionales del país, usando la energía solar.

"No tienes residuos como bióxido de carbono ni combustibles fósiles que tienen que ser extraídos y procesados, no tienes óxido nitroso, no tienes bióxido de azufre, no tienes mercurio."

Melton dice que cambiar a energía solar sería bueno para el medio ambiente y aportaría miles de empleos a la economía rural de Nuevo México durante el proceso de desarrollo.

"Está la creación de empleos a nivel del módulo, a nivel del inversionista –todas éstas son grandes operaciones de manufactura–, a nivel integración y luego a nivel de la construcción. Y después de todo eso, a nivel operación."

El Departamento del Interior está a punto de terminar su plan para ubicar proyectos de energía solar sobre terrenos públicos en seis estados del oeste. En Nuevo México identificó tres áreas de exploración, que suman más de 100 mil acres, como zonas potenciales de energía solar.

La información sobre la localización de las zonas de energía solar está en línea, en doi.gov.


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