[CPEO-MEF] ENERGY, ENCROACHMENT: Mojave Desert wind and the Defense Department

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Wind farms could interfere with flight patterns, radar systems, military 
says


By DAVID DANELSKI
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
May 31, 2010

The Department of Defense says six large-scale wind farms proposed in 
the Mojave Desert near Barstow would interfere with military operations 
and should not be built.

The military opposition prompted Houston, Texas-based Horizon Wind 
Energy last week to withdraw applications for three of the wind farms, 
said Greg Miller, the renewable energy program manager for the Bureau of 
Land Management's Desert District. The bureau is handling the 
applications because the wind farms would be on public land.

No construction had started on the wind farms. Miller said Horizon had 
been gathering meteorological data at the three sites. The fate of the 
other three wind developments has not been determined yet, officials said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/stories/PE_News_Local_D_wind01.1d3f22e.html

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