Solar power projects confront habitat impact

Name: Solar power projects confront habitat impact
Uploaded: 2014-01-24T01:45:50Z
Duration: P419S
Description: Around the country, developers, policy makers and environmentalists are faced with balancing the need for clean energy with the protection of the existing landscape. In California's Mojave Desert is one of the world's finest solar power resources, but it's also the habitat of endangered tortoises. Gabriela Quiros of KQED reports.

Clip: 01/23/2014 | 6m 59s

Around the country, developers, policy makers and environmentalists are faced with balancing the need for clean energy with the protection of the existing landscape. In California's Mojave Desert is one of the world's finest solar power resources, but it's also the habitat of endangered tortoises. Gabriela Quiros of KQED reports.

Aired: 01/23/14

Rating: NR

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