Supervisors Reject Proposal for Wind Farm
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Thursday rejected a plan to build the county’s first power-generating wind farm in the hills northeast of Gorman, despite a 68% reduction in the size of the project since it was proposed three years ago.
The board, siding with surrounding landowners and environmental groups, concluded that the wind farm would be a blight on the scenic slopes, promote erosion and threaten birds with its whirring blades.
The developer, Zond Systems of Tehachapi, largest producer of wind energy in California, then proposed a scaled-down version, reducing the windmills from 458 to 145.
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