RESIDENTS OF OCOTILLO AND BOULEVARD SPEAK OUT, SHARE SAFETY FEARS AFTER TURBINE BLADE FALLS

[Liberty Belle]

292. These 5 are doozies:

1. California Native American Heritage Commission declared this a sacred site and ruled the BLM was wrong to approve this; they want the CA Attorney General to file suit and have them torn down. This has been called "Valley of the Dead" by the tribes here for 10,000 years and had both federal and state protections for cultural resources that the BLM ignored: http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/node/13103

2. Developer lied about proximity to a major earthquake fault (it's on top of one of most active faults in CA) and failed to provide seismic engineering reports; seismic experts say ground could liquify here and turbines could fall over: http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/node/9303


3. Many harmful impacts to Anza Borrego Desert State PArk that shares a 5-mile border with site; whistleblower and former Superintendent revealed Park employees were muzzled from speaking the truth so those impacts were never included in BLM's EIR for project: http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/node/9161

4. It's also in a federal floodplain where major floods have occurred before. Developer illegally diverted drainage and flooded entire town with flammable chemical used for dust suprression. WIthout the chemical town was turned into a dust bowl. Photos and details here: http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/node/10510

5. WAY too close to homes. Most experts now agree turbines should be at least 1 to 1.5 miles from homes. Some homes are surrounded on 3 sides here, less than a half mile away. With noise, infrasound and stray voltage issues this is a nightmare.
In nearby Campo, homes around same distance have stray voltage 1,000 times normal in people's homes and there is a cancer cluster there. I'm on late for appointment now, can post links later or check East County Magazine's many stories on the plight of Manzanita Indian tribal members there who are very, very ill and a wind developer that refuses to correct what multiple experts who measured have confirmed is a serious and imminent health threat. A half mile is dangerous even for blades thrown off and also ice hurled off blades. In Europe a man was cut in half by ice thrown off a blade.

Bonus answer: 6. Property was removed as critical bighorn sheep habitat even though it is; photos of bighorn on site taken after project approval resulted in Secretary Salazar issuing take permits allowing the developer to kill them.