2012 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 17:04:24 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] ENERGY, ENCROACHMENT: Military warns Mojave Desert wind developers
 
MOJAVE DESERT: Military wants to limit wind development

BY DAVID DANELSKI
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
May 20, 2012


With a PowerPoint presentation and a dot of red light, military officials dropped a bomb on California’s wind energy industry at a recent public meeting.

Using a laser pointer, a Navy official outlined on a map a vast area where the military wants to limit commercial wind development. The pointer swept across the Mojave Desert, skirting around Las Vegas, and edging near San Bernardino County’s High Desert communities and touching the southern Sierra Nevada range.

Within that outline, energy companies have been conducting meteorological tests to develop at least 15 wind farms on public property under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Bureau and Land Management.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/local-news/topics/topics-environment-headlines/ 20120520-mojave-desert-military-wants-to-limit-wind-development.ece

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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