[CPEO-MEF] ENERGY, ENCROACHMENT: Transmission line across White Sands Missile Range (NM)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Compromise reached to allow SunZia line to be built on WSMR land
Compromise gives OK to build

By Steve Ramirez
Las Cruces Sun (NM)
May 27, 2014

LAS CRUCES - A compromise has been reached on a proposal that would  
allow SunZia to construct an energy transmission line across a  
portion of White Sands Missile Range.

U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., said Tuesday a resolution has been  
reached between the Department of Defense and the Bureau of Land  
Management that would require SunZia to bury five miles of its  
proposed transmission line underground. That would eliminate  
conflicts with military training and weapons testing that is  
conducted in WSMR's northern extension area.

"(Tuesday's) resolution means that unparalleled military testing at  
White Sands Missile Range and a transformational clean energy  
infrastructure project can exist in harmony, and I commend the  
tremendous work done by the agencies involved to get to this point,"  
said Heinrich in a news release. "White Sands Missile Range is a true  
national treasure that simply cannot be replicated anywhere else in  
the United States, and the SunZia transmission line will unlock the  
state's world class wind resources for clean energy production and  
export to hungry energy markets in the West. All the while, New  
Mexico stands to gain thousands of good-paying construction jobs."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.lcsun-news.com/las_cruces-news/ci_25844136/defense- 
department-offers-compromise-sunzia-project

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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
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