10/1/2009 6:00:00 AM
Public gets say on solar plant tonight
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KINGMAN - Residents will have another chance to voice their opinions on the proposed Hualapai Valley Solar project. The Western Area Power Administration is holding an open house from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Kingman High School, 4182 Bank St., to gather comments from the public for an Environmental Impact Study on the project.
An EIS has to be prepared for the project because Hualapai Valley Solar would connect into the WAPA lines. The study is only part of the lengthy local, state and federal permitting process Hualapai Valley Solar will have to go through before the project can be built.
The 4,160-acre facility, located in the Red Lake area north of Kingman, would provide approximately 340 mega watts of power to the grid.
Several residents have expressed concern about the amount of water the plant will use. The Hualapai Tribe has also expressed concern about damage to the Red Lake area, which they hold as sacred.
Other residents feel that the project will deliver much-needed jobs, taxes and clean energy to the area.
WAPA is encouraging all residents to provide written comments, resources to be evaluated, alternatives and significant concerns or issues about the project. The information can be given to representatives at the meeting or mailed to Mary Barger, NEPA Document Manager, Western Area Power Administration, Box 6457, Phoenix, AZ 85005, e-mailed to: HVSolar@wapa.gov, faxed to: (602) 605-2630 or online at www.wapa.gov/transmission/HVSolar.htm.
Comments should be provided to WAPA before Oct. 23.
For more information, visit www.wapa.gov/transmission/HVSolar.htm or call (602) 605-2524.
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Posted: Sunday, October 04, 2009
Article comment by:
Jim
It looks like the parabolic mirror system may require just too much water.
Why not photovoltaic then? China is building a 2 GIGA watt (that is about 7 times what the Kingman, Hualapai Valley SOlar project would be). AND, they are using a company right here in Arizona to supply the panels!
What is wrong with this picture people!?!?
Posted: Sunday, October 04, 2009
Article comment by:
Icarus
@There's nothinghere: I believe your logic is flawed. If the property becomes "dry and worthless"(your words), why would developers or anyone else buy it?
Also if no new industry comes here providing jobs, there will certainly not be a life or future here, and in spite of what you believe there will always be a Mohave County.
And at anyone concerned with water usage, please show me your petitions to have all the golf courses shut down first and then maybe people will take you serious that you're concerned about the aquifers.
Posted: Saturday, October 03, 2009
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Theres nothing here for newcomers except DRY LOTS
Build it wet-cooled and lose ALL the water and they will LEAVE and NEVER come back again.... becasue no water means no life, no future, no Mohave County! Then the developers can by up all the worthless dry-lots for pennies on the dollar.
Lets move on to states that are protecting their economic futures with smart planning....
Posted: Thursday, October 01, 2009
Article comment by:
H. Goering
people should attend this event and TRY to ascertain the overall picture. Somebody amongst the speakers or the audience needs to come prepared with the size of the local aquifer and the precise drawdown which wil take plae with solar plant (and let's not forget the biofuel plant being proposed). You need to leave the meeting tonight with a clear understanding - with this solar plant added to Kingman's already overusage of the aquifer, HOW MANY YEARS WILL IT BE until the place runs dry? And remember that, a few years before that date, water will necessarily be rationed and become very expensive. And we'll have to pay for all those urgent travel arrangements for local officials as they go hat-in-hand to Western state capitals and to Washington D.C. and maybe Canada begging for water.
Posted: Thursday, October 01, 2009
Article comment by:
ALLEY CAT
Built it and they will come.
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