April 27, 2023
Biden’s push for power lines
High Country News
by Jonathan Thompson
The process didn’t work as well in Arizona. There, sovereign Indigenous nations and conservation groups have attempted to get SunZia to reroute the line away from the fragile, biodiverse San Pedro River, because it would endanger birds and other wildlife and potentially damage culturally significant sites. But that didn’t seem to faze Arizona regulators, who tend to be more amenable to such projects and less responsive to environmental concerns than their New Mexican counterparts, and they unanimously approved the project. So far, the BLM has gone along with the proposed route, too.
This High Country News article provides a fairly balanced view of some of the environmental issues involved in providing renewable power to California via long-distance transmission, and touches on our opposition to SunZia.