Native American tribes and environmentalists want a U.S. appeals court to weigh in on their request to halt construction along part of a $10 billion transmission line that will carry wind-generated electricity from New Mexico to customers as far away as California. He called it too important of an issue, saying: “The United States’ renewable energy policy that includes destroying …
It had been in the works for 16 years. “The government stepped up to make sure we got permits,” said Hunter Armistead, chief executive of Pattern Energy, SunZia’s San Francisco-based project developer. “It’s no one’s responsibility to break through.” ‘Call-up zone’ Over the years, as the calendar pages turned on the SunZia project, it became a symbol of the debilitating …
