Joshua
Tree residents near the border with Yucca Valley learned recently that a
Canadian company, Coronus Solar, plans to use sizable acreage to construct three
1.5 megawatt installations on the corner of Alta Loma and Olympic Roads. This is very close to homes and to
newly-conserved lands purchased by the Mojave Desert Land Trust. For more
details check out a recent KCDZ story on the project. Note that the story concludes with this
statement:
Speaking
at the Morongo Basin Conservation Association annual meeting, renewable energy
blogger and JT resident Chris Clark, who has written extensively about several
much larger energy projects, said, "The 20-to-50 acre installations may well be
the worse threat, in the long term."
Also check out the short article (and many community comments) in the Hi Desert Star.
