Industrial wind development in a fire-risk mountain corridor isn't a clean energy win — it's 112 turbines, 500 feet tall, with FAA beacons flashing every night over one of Arizona's last intact mountain landscapes. We're building the formal public record that makes permit denial the right call.
Every action below goes directly into the formal public record. Here's exactly where to start.
Case No. L-21365A-25-0198 is open. Credentialed professionals needed now — fire operations, fiscal analysis, environmental science, land use law. One expert submission outweighs a thousand signatures.
Two minutes. One comment. Pre-drafted templates with docket numbers and deadlines are ready on sawm.org. Every submission is permanently in the formal record — and it counts.
A legal-quality document — not a form email. Your signature enters the record as formal opposition under HB 2267's 4-mile nuisance standard. Goal: 1,000 verified signatures in 90 days.
Apache County is rewriting wind and solar setback standards right now. Our land use attorney has drafted specific proposed language. County-level standards survive any state veto.
Developers are approaching ranching families in the corridor right now. A refused lease is worth ten op-eds. Our Kitchen Table guide helps neighbors have the right conversation first — with fiscal data and aquifer risk in hand.
Ten speakers at every hearing. All testimony submitted in writing the same day — verbal testimony alone is not in the formal record. Pre-hearing briefings at Round Valley and St. Johns Libraries.
Save Arizona White Mountains is the only organization in Apache County combining credentialed local professionals, active fire district relationships, and a ranching community network to produce the safety and fiscal evidence that proves industrial wind development here is the wrong size, in the wrong place.
Learn MoreSAWM wins not by being louder than Repsol and Triple Oak Power — but by being more credible, more organized, and more formally present in the record than they expect any community organization to be.
We file credentialed expert testimony where developers file consultants' reports. We put an independent fiscal depreciation analysis in front of every supervisor before the vote. We reach every ranching family before the lease offer arrives.
The formal record is how a CUP denial holds up in court. We're building it.
See the Public Record →Before any CUP is approved, these standards must be formally in the public record.
Permitting decisions happen at multiple levels. Here's who the key players are, where they stand, and what SAWM is doing to reach each one.
Fifth-generation ranching family. Republican. Primary Plan A Board target. The most natural alignment with SAWM's safety and fiscal arguments.
Plan A PrimaryFormer two-term Navajo Nation President. Sixth Board term. Pro-renewable. Reachable on process integrity and fiscal transparency grounds.
Plan B ApproachFormer Navajo Nation Council, Board Chairman. Engaged on community sovereignty and fiduciary duty to all Apache County residents.
Plan B ApproachApache County Planning & Zoning. Alignment with developers is flagged as an unknown process risk. All SAWM submissions go directly into the formal record.
Alignment UnknownHB 2267 co-sponsors — defines turbines within 4 miles of homes as a public nuisance. Veto risk from Gov. Hobbs. County plan functions at county level regardless.
Legislative AlliesAlready on formal record. SAWM is formalizing the partnership and coordinating on hearing attendance and written submissions within 30 days.
Formal PartnerSpanish multinational, $768M US wind acquisition. 500MW wind + 450MW solar, 112+ turbines along US-60. Their own documents use the word "monetizing."
AdversaryPortland developer backed by NJ private equity. Transmission route from Vernon to Springerville Substation. Has already purchased equipment for St. Johns fire district.
AdversaryHearing dates, docket confirmations, expert testimony filings — every formal action communicated within 48 hours. You'll always know what happened and what it means for the record.