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Groups sue to stop Bush plan for Western energy corridors

Patty Henetz, Salt Lake Tribune
Jul 9, 2009

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The coalition filed the lawsuit essentially to get the Obama administration's attention, said Liz Thomas, a SUWA attorney in Moab, where a map shows a corridor three to six miles wide running past the entrances to Arches National Park and continuing through the narrow Moab Canyon to the south.

While the Bureau of Land Management changed the corridor plan to avoid some wilderness areas, Utah's maps were unchanged, Thomas said.

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Coal-Friendly Bush Energy Corridor Plan Challenged

Anonymous
Jul 7, 2009

SAN FRANCISCO – Conservation organizations and a western Colorado county today filed a legal challenge to a Bush-era plan that designated energy corridors that promote coalfired and other fossil-fuel power plants. Instead of building new electric lines and transmission towers to connect areas high in solar, wind and geothermal energy, the Bush plan envisioned building them to existing or proposed dirty coal plants.

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Bush Administration Misses Yet Another Opportunity to Guide America to a Sustainable Energy Future while Failing to Protect Treasured Public Lands

Anonymous
Nov 20, 2008

DENVER —The Bush administration’s Bureau of Land Management and Department of Energy today issued a plan for energy corridors throughout the West, squandering an opportunity to move the United States toward a renewable energy based economy and opening iconic public wildlands to destructive development. The plan comes despite pleas for a new direction in energy development from Congress, state agencies, tribal governments and over 14,000 members of the public.

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