[CPEO-MEF] ENERGY, ENCROACHMENT: Chocolate Mountain renewable energy

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[The Bureau of Land Management is considering renewable energy 
development, including wind farms, adjacent to the Chocolate Mountains 
Aerial Bombing and Gunnery Range in Southern California. Does anyone 
know if there has been an evaluation of wind turbine obstruction of or 
radar interference with flight operations? - LS]

U.S. BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT NEWS RELEASE
February 10, 2010

BLM Initiates Environmental Review of Proposed West Chocolate Mountains 
Renewable Energy Project

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today published a notice of intent 
(NOI) to conduct an environmental review on a proposal to consider 
renewable energy development, including geothermal, solar, and wind, on 
public lands within the West Chocolate Mountains area, near the Salton 
Sea in Imperial County, east of Niland and northeast of El Centro, 
California.

The proposed project areas covers approximately 21,300 acres of 
BLM-managed public lands bordered by the Imperial/Riverside County line 
on the north, the Chocolate Mountains Aerial Bombing and Gunnery Range 
on the east, the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area on the south and 
the Imperial Valley agricultural belt on the west.

...

For the entire news release, go to
http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/info/newsroom/2010/february/CDD1033_chocolatemtns_NOI.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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