[FCLightning]

Originally Posted by 243plus

The report is not small; it's 141 pages, with almost 20 pages of citations. I've only skimmed it, as I just became aware of it. It was released back in May of 2017. What I did see is that most of the environmentally sensitive areas are covered by the Bighorn plan in one way or another.

Has anyone done an in-depth read on this?

So now we know where the blueprint for this whole debacle has come from. The same folks that engineered the Castle, according to their brag sheet

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