{"id":6202,"date":"2012-09-02T12:44:20","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T20:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=6202"},"modified":"2012-09-02T12:44:20","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T20:44:20","slug":"from-basinrangewatch-ocotillo-express-wind-energy-facility-summer-construction-and-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/02\/from-basinrangewatch-ocotillo-express-wind-energy-facility-summer-construction-and-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"(from Basin&#038;RangeWatch) &#8216;Ocotillo Express Wind Energy Facility Summer Construction and Violations&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0<\/strong> September 1, 2012 &#8211; Ocotillo, California. As Pattern Energy erects the first giant wind turbines on the once unfragmented Colorado Desert landscape, local and regional activists and residents continue to monitor construction. Many violations have been recorded, such as access roads much wider than in the environmental review documents, night lighting disturbing residents, equipment leaking hazardous fluids, and more.<\/p>\n<p>The photos of the green leafing Ocotillo Forest being bulldozed and trampled are tragic. This is not green energy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TO VIEW ALL IMAGES AND READ MORE ABOUT THIS TRAGEDY, CLICK THE IMAGE BELOW<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basinandrangewatch.org\/Ocotillo-Aug12.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6203\" title=\"Ocotillo-Ewing-Aug-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Ocotillo-Ewing-Aug-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Ocotillo-Ewing-Aug-1.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Ocotillo-Ewing-Aug-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basinandrangewatch.org\/Ocotillo-Aug12.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6204\" title=\"ocotillo-Ewing-Aug-9\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ocotillo-Ewing-Aug-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ocotillo-Ewing-Aug-9.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ocotillo-Ewing-Aug-9-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basinandrangewatch.org\/Ocotillo-Aug12.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6205\" title=\"ocotillo-Ewing-Aug-6\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ocotillo-Ewing-Aug-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ocotillo-Ewing-Aug-6.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ocotillo-Ewing-Aug-6-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.basinandrangewatch.org\/Ocotillo-Aug12.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN EXCERPT:\u00a0 September 1, 2012 &#8211; Ocotillo, California. As Pattern Energy erects the first giant wind turbines on the once unfragmented Colorado Desert landscape, local and regional activists and residents continue to monitor construction. Many violations have been recorded, such as access roads much wider than in the environmental review documents, night lighting disturbing residents, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6202"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6208,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6202\/revisions\/6208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}