Residents of the Rio Cocospera river valley and the town of Imuris were shocked to learn of a huge project already under construction in late 2023. This project is a brand new railway segment from the Imuris area to Nogales, but further east than the current railway, cutting through the beautiful, biologically important, and little-disturbed Rio Cocospera drainage.
From the Liberty Cove website:
Development proposals sneak up on remote and unsuspecting towns in the Gulf of California region, such as Bahia Kino, Santa Rosalillita, Bahia de Los Angeles, El Golfo de Santa Clara, Puerto Libertad, and Punta Colonet. Many of the residents have no basic services, water, drainage, light, and roads. Meanwhile, government representatives offer these facilities to infrastructure megaproject companies, which pass along to their investors the profits obtained through the subsidies.
The Center for Biological Diversity and Defenders of Wildlife hereby formally petition the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (also “Service”) to list one of the following entities of cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl: 1) the Arizona distinct population segment (“DPS”) of the cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl; 2) the Sonoran Desert DPS of the cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl; or 3) the western subspecies of cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl (G.
The Sonoran state government is building a controversial pipeline (Independencia pipeline) that wil
Why This Report? In 2004, two major industrial developments—a liquid natural gas (LNG) regasification facility by Houston-based DKRW Energy and a “clean fuels” refinery by Arizona Clean Fuels of Phoenix, Arizona-- were announced by their promoters as planned for Puerto Libertad, Sonora and Tacna, Arizona, respectively. The two facilities, along with their accompanying Mexican ports and new pipelines, could have environmental impacts on both the Gulf of California and protected lands in Sonora and Arizona.
