Environmental Impact Statement

READER'S EDITORIAL: FALSEHOODS IN THE OCOTILLO WIND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT

 

By Tom Budlong

I just mined the Ocotillo project's Environmental Impact Statement issued before the project was approved. The document's job is to predict the project's impacts.

On noise: “Under this worst-case scenario the wind farm would be considered an acceptable land use and…would meet the Imperial County daytime and nighttime noise limits. (p. 4.9-7).


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