Interior Secretary Ken Salazar spoke to the Western Governors’ Association annual meeting yesterday (Monday). Salazar says the Obama administration will help Western states speed up the development of a system for delivering renewable power to customers in the region.
Salazar says Arizona and three other states will get federal renewable energy planning offices to help make sure projects don’t get stalled in local bureaucracy.
The Denver Post reports that Energy Secretary Steven Chu also announced $80 million in federal stimulus money to develop high voltage transmission networks.
Western governors and Cabinet secretaries also signed an agreement to work together to protect wildlife corridors essential to the survival of migratory animals such as pronghorn, caribou, mule deer, and elk.
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