You might ask the following question: who owns those valleys that you mention?
The land that LADWP is proposing to build upon is land it already owns.
I'm curious how happy the Owens Valley residents would be if LADWP proposed a massive land acquisition? My guess would be a massive reaction of inappropriateness.
"Don't they have enough???" would be the likely rallying cry......
Ken - I believe most of that land is already publicly owned by either the DWP or the BLM. Real estate brokers in the area say that 97% of the land in the Eastern Sierra is publicly owned, primarily by the BLM, the USFS, the LADWP, the DOD or the USPS.
Here's a link to several wind projects proposed for the
upper Mojave and Sonoran deserts.
