[CPEO-MEF] ENERGY, ENCROACHMENT: SunZia transmission and the White Sands Missile Range (NM<)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

MIT to study SunZia transmission line plan
	
By Kevin Robinson-Avila 
Albuquerque Journal (NM)
November 15, 2013

The U.S. Department of Defense has agreed to commission a study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory on the potential impacts of the SunZia transmission line on White Sands Missile Range.

As a result, the U.S. Bureau of Land management says it will postpone a pending decision on whether to approve an environmental impact statement that currently calls for routing a 45-mile stretch of the 500-mile, high-voltage line through White Sands’ northern extension area.

The DOD has said the proposed line could interfere with military operations in the extension area, a “call-up zone” just north of White Sands where ranchers and others are often evacuated for testing exercises.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.abqjournal.com/301894/news/mit-to-probe-sunzia-line-plan.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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