By Shar Porier | Bisbee Daily Review
The Cochise County Board of Supervisors agreed to submit a letter of protest of the route selected by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management that permits SunZia Southwest Transmission, LLC., to install two parallel power lines that will run through the northwest corner of the county and the Lower San Pedro River Valley.
During Tuesday’s meeting, Supervisor Ann English, chairperson of the board of supervisors, explained that the county had to have its notice of protest filed by July 15 and to meet that deadline, she submitted a letter to the BLM. Now she needed the approval of Supervisors Pat Call and Richard Searle, which they gave.
Last year, the supervisors requested the BLM use another route through Graham County, to minimize impacts to sensitive rural communities, disturbance to cultural or paleontological areas, as well as impacts to the fragile riparian habitat along the San Pedro River.
