“This exceptionally long and thorough review period took years longer than anticipated, and was several years longer than the majority of other Ormat projects permitted on federal land, which have generally taken about two years to permit,” Ormat Vice President Paul Thomsen said.
may spell disaster for the financial viability of the project,” the company said, pointing to a December 2021 deadline in its private power production agreements. “Even a few weeks of delay in construction of this project. 20 seeking intervenor status in the case, citing its $68-million investment over 10 years in the project, which it said could be jeopardized by any delays. It just feels like more empty words,” she said. “The United States has repeatedly promised to honor and protect Indigenous sacred sites, but then the BLM approved a major construction project nearly on top of our most sacred hot springs. Tribal Chairperson Cathi Tuni said the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone’s ancestors have lived in the Dixie Valley region for thousands of years and long recognized the hot springs as “a sacred place of healing and reflection.”
“We strongly support renewable energy when it’s in the right place, but a project like this that threatens sacred sites and endangered species is definitely the wrong place,” Patrick Donnelly, the center’s Nevada state director, said about the geothermal plants. Lithium is a key component of batteries for electric vehicles, a centerpiece of Biden’s energy strategy. The center is the same group that won an endangered species listing earlier this year for a rare plant at the site of a proposed lithium mine 225 miles southeast of Reno. endangered species is still pending before the Fish and Wildlife Service. The Biden administration approved the project last month even though the Center for Biological Diversity’s petition to list the toad as a U.S. District Court in Reno to consider the groups’ subsequent request for a restraining order to temporarily block initial construction work Ormat planned to begin as early as Thursday.įormed by natural springs, Dixie Meadows is a critical wetland ecosystem in a desert oasis that is home to the Dixie Valley toad, found nowhere else in the world, the lawsuit says. A judge has scheduled a hearing Tuesday in U.S.
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