By Tony Davis | Arizona Daily Star
An outpouring of passion against the proposed 515-mile SunZia power line project greeted the Arizona Corporation Commission Tuesday, with about 25 speakers arguing that it was environmentally destructive and economically unjustified.
“This is a poorly thought out project and I haven’t seen need for it,” said Robert McClure, a Scottsdale resident and longtime property owner in the unincorporated community of Cascabel, which the project’s two power lines would pass near in the lower San Pedro River valley. “It’s clear that without government mandates and subsidies for wind power, this project would be totally uneconomical.”
