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Appendix G Comments Received During Scoping Period Cristina Piraino From: Armando Villa [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 08:24 AM To: Angelina Havens Subject: FW: Ocotillo Express Wind Energy Project Please respond... Armando G. Villa Director of Planning & Development Services County of Imperial (760) 482-4236 www.icpds.com -----Original Message----- From: George Blender [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, December 25, 2010 10:26 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Ocotillo Express Wind Energy Project Please forward the name(s) and address(es) of the company (companies) proposing this project. Nowhere, on anything from BLM or Imperial County Planning & Development is a single company named. I think you should at least tell us what company or companies are applying for permission. Thanks George Blender 1 Cristina Piraino From: [email protected] Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 03:22 PM To: Angelina Havens Subject: Ocotillo Express Wind Energy Project Angelina: I am a resident of Ocotillo and request that the comment meeting for the Ocotillo Express Wind Energy Project be rescheduled to a weekend. I suggest a high noon meeting on a Saturday. There are too many part time residents that will find a Thursday evening meeting very difficult to attend. This project is of very high concern to our community and everyone should have an equal opportunity to attend. Thank you: Parke Ewing PO Box 84, 98 West Imperial Hwy. Ocotillo, Ca. 92259 1 Cristina Piraino From: Charlene Compson [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 01:47 PM To: Angelina Havens; Jack Terrazas; caocotillo; [email protected] Subject: Ocotillo Express Wind Energy Project To all concerned with this project: I am writing to you to express my dislike and disappointment with all the projects being considered for Ocotillo and NoMirage areas. Out of all the projects that have been "suggested" for Ocotillo, I am most aggravated with the WInd Towers. Are you people delusional?? I cannot believe that you feel placing 240 -400 foot tall wind turbines is a good idea in an urban setting. ( Why not place them in an uninhabited area, if it has to be done at all!) We have enjoyed the desert most of our lives, as children and adults, we have always picked up other people's trash, stayed on designated routes, respected the landscape and critters. We love our desert!! I have heard over the past few days that there is a scheduled meeting for Thursday, January 6th @ 6pm at the Ocotillo Community Park regarding the "proposed project and how it may be revised to reduce or avoid any significant environmental impacts". I have not received anything about this in the mail to date, only what other disgruntled residents have told me. I am asking for you to consider re-scheduling this meeting to a time where more part-timers that live in San Diego and come down on weekends to enjoy our beautiful desert, can make this meeting. I would hope this is not why you planned it during the week, but how about a Saturday in the next couple of weeks? A Saturday where we can all get together and come to this meeting and discuss this. It looks like you folks have already made up your minds, but you are asking the public for some suggestions on how this could be a little bit more environmentally favorable. You know it isn't always about how much cash you guys are going to get out of this project, but it is also about the lives that these projects are affecting. Please re-consider the date and let us know that you think a Saturday is a great idea and we will gladly pass the word onto a LARGE group of unhappy residents. Charlene Compson P.O.Box 284 Ocotillo, CA 92259 SEND YOUR E-MAILS PEOPLE !! 1 Cristina Piraino From: John Mood [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 11:48 AM To: [email protected]; Angelina Havens; Jack Terrazas; Jim Minnick; Armando Villa; Carina Alcantar; Rosa Soto Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Ocotillo Express Wind Energy Project Hi, Folks! Will you people please stop approving corporations ruining the desert!!!!! My wife & I have owned property in Imperial County since '79 & have had a trailer on it since Feb., '86, & we love it. On the other hand, you give no evidence of enjoying the desert & its silence, its cacti, dunes, lizards, chollas (including the rare Wolf's cholla), desert lilies, subtly colored lovely alluvial fans & mountains, palms, ocotillos, insects, birds, coyotes, snakes, paloverdes, smoke trees, rabbits, the extremely rare & unusual Pilostyles thurberi a flowering plant growing INSIDE another flowering plant the Psorothamnus emoryi ("dye bush," a close relative of smoke trees), creosote bushes, roadrunners, datura blossoms, the Euphorbia micromera ("Sonoran sandmat") hugging the ground low with a single root & tiny flowers needing a triplet to see & more magnification to detect the complexity of its dual male & female flowers in one blossom & if one lifts up the plant it smells like a swamp (in the desert!), the stars, etc., etc., etc., etc. If you don't love the desert, then move back to El Cajon or wherever you came from, where there are lots of lights & people & cars & noise & pollution & everything else you apparently want to introduce out here around Ocotillo with your Ocotillo Express Wind Energy Project, & put up a loud ugly huge dangerous invasive windmill in your own backyard. Please stay away from ours. The planet doesn't need more electricity, it needs less humans. What is this growth fetish? & if you want more jobs, hire people to protect the desert instead of ruining it. How about that? And here are some photos of windmills similar to what you're trying to foist on us. To be completely fair, you should make 100s of copies of this email & the attached photos & pass them out at every meeting of anyone discussing this disastrous proposal, because I am talking FACTS, not opinions. You could also check several damning videos at the site below. Truly appalling. & this is what you want to saddle Ocotillo the poor ugly sister western portion of Imperial County with??? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm0Oe8J6qT8 Or have I mis-represented you in this email? If so, then please vote to stop it all immediately & entirely, never to be brought up again. John Mood 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 http://www.johnmood.net 12 Cristina Piraino From: Charlene Compson [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 09:40 AM To: [email protected]; cedric_Perry; Angelina Havens; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; Jim Minnick; Armando Villa; Carina Alcantar Subject: PROPOSED Ocotillo Express Wind Energy Project Attachments: AR-M455N_20110104_101612.pdf FOR MEETINGS REGARDING WIND FARM I am writing in regard to the wind towers that are proposed for around the town of Ocotillo, CA in Western Imperial County. I am a resident of Ocotillo and I am in no way in favor of this project, nor of the way this and other projects are being forced upon the residents of Ocotillo and NoMirage. It is my understanding there will be a meeting this Thursday, January 6th, 2011 @ 6 pm at the Ocotillo Community Park for input on the Environmental Impact Report (EIR). I will be unable to attend but want this e-mail to be part of your consideration, as if I was standing in front of all those concerned. There are questions and concerns that I would like to have addressed: Why was this site chosen? The site is so close to houses and completely surrounds the town. The beautiful view of Coyotes Mountain will be gone. The quiet we have all come accustomed to will no longer exist. The destruction of the land to build these towers and all the new , wide access roads for all the machinery and trucks would be immense. BLM has made it very clear, for years, that off-roaders are to stay on existing trails and now BLM is saying it is alright to bulldoze whatever land the project needs? What's that all about? After access roads are made the dust level will increase every time the wind blows, which will cause an unhealthy air quality. What will happen to local paved roads within the area. These roads already are in total disrepair and all this additional new traffic will destroy what is left. A lot of the proposed towers are in the FEMA flood plane. According to the Imperial County Planning Dept. no construction can occur for the locals but new rules for big companies? There have been large amounts of earthquakes http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Maps/special/California_Nevada_eqs.php in this area. We are near many fault lines. How will these wind towers react during earthquakes? I understand the blades are considered hazardous material and will have to be disposed of properly when they fail, and they will fail and need to be replaced. Golden Acorn towers are always replacing theirs and the old blades are still lying on the ground waiting to be disposed of properly, a year later. Who is responsible for the maintenance of these towers for their duration? What water source will be used during construction? The town of Ocotillo already has one major place, USGS Plaster City, using HUGE amounts of Ocotillo's aquifer. Ocotillo's aquifer is delicate and should not be 1 abused. The residents count on this water source for their existence.