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According to the project's final EIS, the geographic limits of the Grand Canyon condor population as determined by FWS overlap the project's proposed footprint. Condor can fly up to 160 miles a day in searching for food, and the Grand Canyon "experimental" population is well within that range of the Mohave County Wind Farm.
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In a letter to the commission, Ginger Ritter, AZGF project evaluation program specialist, asked the commissioners to postpone the decision until more data was available on the locations, nesting sites and activities of the golden eagles and long-nosed bats in the vicinity.
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Impact on Wildlife]
A Texas-based company is looking to build a 51-megawatt wind farm in the desert, about 21 miles west of Willcox, near Muleshoe and War Bonnet Ranch Roads.
Glenn Holliday of Houston, Texas, said Torch Renewable Energy, LLC (TRE) is submitting a Special Use Application (SUP) for development of the Red Horse 2 Wind Farm, in a Feb. 21 letter to Cochise County Planning Manager Michael Turisk.
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Interior designates Arizona lands for solar, wind development
January 18, 2013 by Brian Scheid in Platts
January 18, 2013 by Brian Scheid in Platts
Following a three-year environmental analysis, the Obama administration Friday designated 192,100 acres of public land in Arizona as potentially suitable for utility-scale solar and wind energy development.
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Energy Policy|
USA]
Local wind turbine manufacturer Southwest Windpower laid off 14 more employees earlier this week at its Flagstaff manufacturing plant as well as several employees at their offices in Colorado.
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General]
Only months after Coconino County's first major wind energy farm got up and running this winter, the utility buying its power says more wind farms here are unlikely -- at least for now.
Wind farm generates debate; Perrin Ranch neighbors vow to prevent more projects
December 11, 2011 by Ryan Randazzo in The Arizona Republic
December 11, 2011 by Ryan Randazzo in The Arizona Republic
"If you are going to really displace coal, nuclear and natural gas with renewables, it simply is not going to happen because of land area needed and habitat loss needed for solar and wind and how much wind and solar you would need," he said. "I would rather see these (wind) subsidies go to individuals who want solar or wind on their own property. Honestly, I think commercial-scale wind is a scam."
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Wind farm and/or land exchange? Forest Service awaits Ruskin move on Yavapai Ranch
September 7, 2011 by Joanna Dodder Nellans in The Daily Courier
September 7, 2011 by Joanna Dodder Nellans in The Daily Courier
He could forget the wind farm idea, ask the Forest Service to drop the wind farm project area out of the land exchange, or try to get the Forest Service to accept land into its system that already contains the giant wind turbines, roads and other encumbrances.
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County supervisors give green light to wind farm
September 7, 2011 by Scott Orr in The Prescott Daily Courier
September 7, 2011 by Scott Orr in The Prescott Daily Courier
One major hurdle for the project has been the fact that the U.S. Forest Service must approve easements for roads and utility lines, something it had denied, citing a 2005 law that disallows new encumbrances on the land.
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Wind farm jeopardizes state's largest land exchange
August 2, 2011 by Joanna Dodder Nellans in The Daily Courier
August 2, 2011 by Joanna Dodder Nellans in The Daily Courier
For all his life, it was Fred Ruskin's dream to complete the largest land exchange in Arizona history and consolidate his family's huge northern Arizona ranch into a contiguous private parcel.
Now that dream is in jeopardy because of a different dream of building a wind farm on the vast grasslands of the Yavapai Ranch.
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The permitting process is just getting under way. In addition to the zoning change, Yavapai Wind will also need approval from the Arizona Corporation Commission, an environmental study, permission from the FAA for the towers and lighting, and more public participation meetings before the project gets the final green light.
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Strange bedfellows join forces to kill power-line-siting bill
April 24, 2011 by Tony Davis in Arizona Daily Star
April 24, 2011 by Tony Davis in Arizona Daily Star
The farm bureau and cattle growers sided with environmental groups, with whom they often are at loggerheads, such as the Sierra Club, as well as grass-roots activists in rural communities such as the Cascabel Working Group north of Benson and residents in Picture Rocks northwest of Tucson.
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Transmission]
As NextEra Energy Resources moves forward with plans for a wind farm on Perrin Ranch, a smaller renewable energy company is eyeing a second parcel of ranch land off Highway 64.
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General]
Appeals Court upholds rule on renewable energy
April 8, 2011 by Ryan Randazzo in The Arizona Republic
April 8, 2011 by Ryan Randazzo in The Arizona Republic
Arizona's rules requiring certain utilities to get 15 percent of their electricity from alternative sources, such as solar and wind, by 2025 survived a fourth legal challenge from the Goldwater Institute watchdog group Thursday.
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Energy Policy]
"I am against any kind of wind generation in our mountains," said Tom Thurman, District 2 supervisor. "They are gorgeous, they are pristine, there's wilderness just north of there."
"[A wind farm is] going to be seen for miles and miles," he continued. "As far as I am concerned, I will fight it."
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Supervisor Lena Fowler said there were unanswered questions about whether the project might affect bird and bat migration, and the supervisors spent some time adding clauses to give an advisory group more ability to suspend operations during migration periods, and asking questions of Arizona Game and Fish.
"How can we study the natural state of a species when we've already disturbed it?" Fowler asked.
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Impact on People]
Two firms hoping to harvest wind in Apache County
December 27, 2010 by Karen Warnick in The Independent
December 27, 2010 by Karen Warnick in The Independent
The Board of Supervisors approved conditional use permits for two companies to place up to four meteorological towers that will analyze wind speed, direction and other data. The companies are Invenergy Wind Development and Pacific Wind Development.
Barry Weller, a member of the public, said that wind farms are a burden to communities and asked the board to please consider the issue before going further.
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For more than nine hours, the Coconino County Planning and Zoning Commission weighed possible impacts to wildlife and scenery, renewable energy, night lighting and where to put the 62 towers (each 405 feet tall from ground to tip of blade at tallest). ...It appears likely that there will be an appeal.
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Navajo lawmakers overturned a presidential veto of a wind energy project in Cameron hours after the override failed.
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Goldwater Institute fights renewable-energy rules in Arizona court
November 17, 2010 by Ryan Randazzo in The Arizona Republic
November 17, 2010 by Ryan Randazzo in The Arizona Republic
The Goldwater Institute took a fourth stab Tuesday at striking down rules in Arizona that force utilities to use renewable energy such as solar power.
The institute's lawyer, Clint Bolick, argued in the Arizona Court of Appeals that the rules passed in 2006 by the Corporation Commission exceed the authority of those five elected officials who oversee utilities such as Arizona Public Service Co.
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