Indeed, Ormat’s Ron Leiken said that the company does expect comments from the labor unions on CD-IV. “It’s a new project,” whereas M-1 is simply a replacement project.
“If they were wise, they’d sue on this one ,” local attorney Jim Reed told The Sheet also on Wednesday evening during a public meeting for CD-IV’s DEIS/EIR, which is currently in the middle of a 60-day public comment period. According to County Development Director Scott Burns, the County had not heard anything from the unions as of Wednesday evening, Dec. Mono County is the lead agency on this project’s environmental process and last month the Board of Supervisors upheld the decision made by the County’s Planning Commission to approve the EIR and award a conditional use permit for the project.įollowing that decision, the unions had 30 days to file any further appeals or lawsuits. Legal representation for the California Unions for Reliable Energy (CURE) and Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA) have attempted to stop or at least slow the progress of M-1, which would replace the current 25-year-old geothermal plant just outside of Mammoth with a new, more efficient plant, by challenging the project’s EIR. Despite recent bumps in the road regarding its Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for Ormat’s Mammoth Pacific I Replacement Project, or M-1 (see “Mono County/Ormat get greenmailed” and “Mono County Supervisors deny EIR appeals”), the geothermal company is pressing on with a second project, known as the Casa Diablo IV Geothermal Development Project (CD IV).
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