Invenergy
$40 MILLION LAWSUIT FILED AGAINST INVENERGY OVER WIND FARM
Donna Tisdale
Shu'luuk WInd
Orangeville Wind
By Miriam Raftery
Photo: Wind turbines at Kumeyaay Wind facility in Campo
September 23, 2014 (Campo, California) – "Looks like we dodged another wind project bullet when the Campo tribe voted down Invenergy's Shu'luuk Wind project," Boulevard Planning Group Chair Donna Tisdale wrote in an e-mail to East County Magazine.
She forwarded a link to an article on a $40 million lawsuit filed against Invenergy by 60 neighbors of the company's Orangeville Wind project in New York. Neighbors allege that the facility has violated noise limits and caused significant harm to health and property values: http://www.windaction.org/posts/41275-lawsuit-filed-against-invenergy-in-relation-to-orangeville-wind-farm#.VB83JPldV8E.
The suit alleges that the project has created a nuisance that has caused residents to suffer a loss in their quality of life and property value due to the wind energy project. According to the complaint, wind turbines were built within 800 to 1500 feet of the plaintiffs' properties. Plaintiffs contend that the project has caused "constant noise, vibrations, and flicker to enter Plaintiffs' property, significantly impacting the health and wellbeing of the Plaintiffs and causing them to become sick, sore, lame and disabled." The projects also destroyed rural views, the suit states.
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INVENERGY ACQUIRES SOITEC'S PLANNED MASSIVE SOLAR PROJECT IN BORREGO SPRINGS
Soitec's Desert Green Solar Farm
Mission Indians
Kevin Emmerich
Basin & Ranch Watch
April 4, 2014 (Borrego Springs) – Invenergy Solar Development has acquired Soitec Solar's Desert Green Solar Farm, a 7 MW solar project slated to break ground this month in Borrego Springs. The project will include over 2,800 soitec concentrator photovoltaic modules using dual-axis tracking technology. Commercial operation is expected to begin by the end of this year. San Diego Gas & Electric has signed a long-term purchase agreement for power from the project, which will hook up to the existing Borrego Springs substation.
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USFW SAYS RAPTOR KILLED BY TRUCK IN BOULEVARD WAS HAWK, NOT EAGLE
Tule Wind
San Diego Golden Eagle
David Bittner
December 4, 2013 (Boulevard) -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has completed its examination of a raptor euthanized after it was struck by a semi- truck in Boulevard on November 27.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has confirmed the species of bird as a red-tailed hawk, said Jane Hendron, Public Affairs Division Chief with the USFWS in Carlsbad.
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CAMPO TRIBE TO VOTE JUNE 9 ON SHU'LUUK WIND PROJECT
Shu'luuk
June 6, 2013 (Campo) – On Sunday, June 9, the Campo Band of Mission Indians' general council ( tribal members age 18 and over) will be asked to vote on whether to approve or reject Invenergy's Shu'luuk Wind Energy project proposed to be built on the reservation, according to a meeting notice and agenda obtained by ECM.
ECM has also obtained a letter sent by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to Robert Eben, Superintendent of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Riverside. The EPA letter raises serious concerns over the project's Draft Enviornmental Impact Statement (DEIR), concluding that there is "Insufficient information" on impacts of three project versions and that health impacts of noise and low-frequency sound on nearby residents have been ignored.
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RURAL FIRE DISTRICT LAWYER: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS IGNORED FIRE CONCERNS, PUBLIC HEALTH AT SHU'LUUK WIND PROJECT IN CAMPO
Campo Indians
San Diego wildfires
Shu-luuk Wind
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Wildfire News
"On its face…it appears that the DEIS [Draft Environmental Impact Statement] fails to include any legally enforceable Public Health and Safety mitigation measures….A failure to mandate even minimal fire protection standards or a protection plan will not only endanger workers on-site, it represents a potential fire threat to the surrounding communities."
– Cynthia L. Eldred, attorney for the San Diego Rural Fire Protection District
February 26, 2013 (Campo) – An attorney representing the San Diego Rural Fire Protection District has sent repeated letters to the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) taking the agency to task for ignoring health, safety and fire concerns in its consideration of the Shu'luuk Wind project. In a February 25, 2013 comment submitted to the BIA, the district further accuses the BIA of violating federal law and failing to require mitigation of serious problems for the proposed project on the Campo Indian reservation.
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