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Protesters mourn 'death of desert'
The protesters held a mock funeral procession to mourn what they see as the loss of the Ocotillo desert, and "to demonstrate to the public that we are really unhappy with National Public Lands Day being celebrated in the face of destruction of many thousands of acres of land for land energy projects."
September 30, 2012
by Chelcey Adami
in Imperial Valley Press
OCOTILLO - Protesters in grim reaper costumes stood silently holding signs early Saturday as 18-wheelers carrying wind turbine materials made hairpin turns off of Interstate 8 on their way to the construction site of a roughly $600 million wind energy project being built near Ocotillo.
The protesters held a mock funeral procession to mourn what they see as the loss of the Ocotillo desert, and "to demonstrate to the public that we are really unhappy with National Public Lands Day being celebrated in the face of destruction of many thousands of acres of land for land energy projects," said Terry... [continue via Web link]
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