Testing for Valley Fever spores may also be required of solar utility developers

By Patric Hedlund

The vision of a forest of 500-foot-tall industrial wind turbines dotting the landscape, “rumbling like a freight train that just never passes by” was vividly rejected by the residents of unincorporated Western Antelope Valley July 14. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously agreed with their concerns.

The board approved a motion by Supervisor Michael Antonovich to ban utility-scale wind…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Top: Some of the 50 spectators at the (above, left) Lancaster Pubic Library teleconfernce site. Above, right: Susan Zahnter speaks about the need for the wind turbine ban in unincorporated areas.

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This is part of the July 17, 2015 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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