[CPEO-MEF] ENERGY, ENCROACHMENT: Arizona renewables "vex military"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Arizona’s solar energy plans vex military

by Rebekah L. Sanders, and Ryan Randazzo on , under  News
Arizona Republic
April 7, 2012

A solar tower nearly twice the height of the Empire State building.  
Hundreds of spinning 200-foot-tall wind turbines. A 500-mile high- 
voltage power line from central New Mexico to southern Arizona.

Those are among the projects the renewable-energy industry sees in  
Arizona’s future.

But for the U.S. military, that vision translates into fears of  
unusable airspace, equipment failures and plane-crash risks.

Across the country, the burgeoning green-energy industry has faced  
military concerns about threats to the safety of its pilots and high- 
tech operations. Air Force officials, in particular, are wary. They  
say solar projects can obstruct flight paths and reflect sunlight  
into pilots' eyes, wind farms can jam radar, and transmission lines  
can disrupt testing equipment.


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For the entire article, see
http://tucsoncitizen.com/arizona-news/2012/04/07/arizonas-solar- 
energy-plans-vex-military/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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