The Bureau of Land Management is advancing a massive 235-mile-long transmission line in northern Nevada that was a top Biden administration priority but that cuts through sections of sensitive greater sage grouse habitat.
BLM Friday published a final environmental impact statement for the Greenlink North Transmission Project on its e-planning webpage, marking a major milestone for a power line that would transport electricity from planned renewable energy projects as well as provide increased transmission capacity in fast-growing parts of northern Nevada.
The project would require amending three resource management plans to let the transmission line be routed through sections of sage grouse habitat, including near and around 59 breeding grounds called leks.
The final EIS calls for routing about 168 miles of the proposed power line to more closely follow already disturbed rangelands and areas with “existing transmission lines.”
