Feinstein and the Mojave vs. Solar Power - Newsweek.com

California has other lands, both federally and state owned, on which solar producers could relocate their projects. But no place is perfect; the sun doesn't shine as brightly in California's Central Valley and the desolate areas of Arizona or Utah are either too mountainous or too far from consumption centers to make transmission viable. Get too close to populated areas like San Bernardino and people complain that the infrastructure ruins the landscape. 

"There's a compelling case that any land in the Southwest is too environmentally rich to develop on; but the fact is, if we want renewable energy, they have to go somewhere," says Jim Baak, director of utility-scale policy with California advocacy group Vote Solar. Speaking at Yale in 2008, Schwarzenegger was more blunt: 

"They say that we want renewable energy, but we don't want you to put it anywhere.I mean, if we cannot put solar power plants in the Mojave Desert, I don't know where the hell we can put them."

via http://www.newsweek.com/id/230681/page/1 

Good piece just popped up on Newsweek.com about Sen. Diane Feinstein's efforts to restrict green/ solar development to .... well, China I guess.

"The newer acronym (than NIMBY) cheekily floated by frustrated renewable energy developers is "BANANA." Build absolutely nothing anywhere near anyone."