Protest of Resource Management Plan Amendments
and Final Environmental Impact Statement for the SunZia Southwest Transmission Project
Collaborators include: the Sierra Club, Defenders of Wildlife, Center for Biological Diversity,
Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection, Sky Island Alliance, Tucson Audubon, Huachua Audubon and the
Cascabel Working Group
CWG's Comments on BLM's Response to our DEIS Comments (the responses actually came from EPG, the private contractor
who authored the DEIS on behalf of the BLM)
Our comments on EPG's response to
CWG's primary DEIS comment letter Is it really true that the ability for southwestern states to generate all the renewable energy they need,
the Bowie power plant, and competing transmission projects are all unrelated to evaluating SunZia?
Our comments on EPG's response to
CWG's DEIS comment letter regarding tranmission congestion in NM Is the Western Electricity Coordinating Council really wrong in stating that transmission lines in southwestern New Mexico are not currently
congested and are not projected to be in the foreseeable future?
CWG's Comments on the Failure of the
EIS to truly address the No Action alternative Is it true that the only consequence of not building SunZia are that the BLM won't grant a right-of-way for the project?
What will happen to the purpose and need for the project?
Our Protest letter
regarding how the Environmental Planning Group and EPG have dealt with public comments on the
SunZia DEIS
"It is the EIS contractor's responsibility to work with the public to
incorporate comments in the best way possible...EPG has failed to achieve this."
