Interior
Secretary
Ken
Salazar
earlier
this
month
approved
siting
the
project,
under
development
by
a
subsidiary
of
Pattern
Energy,
on
10,151acres
(41sq
km)
of
public
lands
in
the
Ocotillo
Desert.
When
fully
built,
the
112
wind
turbines
will
provide
electricity
for
about
94,500
homes.
In
its
complaint
filed
in
the
US
District
Court
for
the
Southern
District
of
California,
the
tribe
says
the
lands
are
given
protection
by
the
California
Desert
Conservation
Area
(CDCA)
plan.
It
asserts
that
OWEF
is
one
of
many
utility-scale
renewable
energy
projects
approved,
or
under
consideration
for
approval,…
