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In reply to the discussion: GOLDEN EAGLES FACE EXTINCTION IN U.S. AS NUMBERS PLUMMET, NEW STUDIES REVEAL: WIND FARMS ARE CAUSE [View all]Liberty Belle
(9,534 posts)high voltage power line project through an area that has had the two worst wildfires in CA history. But the regulatory agencies rubber stamped it.
Another EIR I've seen lied flat out and said no bighorn sheep there. Everyone who hikes in the area or lives there has seen them. That was a solar farm project. But it's not just energy projects that get away with this stuff. It's any big company with $$$.
Same thing when Blackwater wanted to open a training camp. They arranged to get their former lawyer hired by the county to head up an environmental review for their proposed project. Thankfully media blew the lid on that one, in fact it was Ms. Raftery's story that did so and got her removed from the project, and her reporting that likely contributed to BW eventually giving up on building the mercenary training facility in Potrero CA. Story was on RawStory.com.