Tribe calls for halt to new wind-energy powerline through San Pedro River Valley
November 2, 2023
by Henry Bean

The chairman of the Tohono O’odham Nation is calling for an immediate halt to construction of a new wind-energy transmission line through the Lower San Pedro River Valley east of Tucson to protect cultural sites.

In an “urgent request” to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Tuesday, Tohono O’odham Chairman Verlon Jose asked her to stop “the unlawful and deeply harmful destruction of the San Pedro Valley” by workers cutting roads and clearing pads for the 550-mile-long SunZia Southwest Transmission Project.

Read the original article | Read the letter from the Tohono O’odham Nation to Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland