FORT MOHAVE — Even without the visual of a hundred retirees wearing custom neon yellow shirts, it’s clear the neighbors are upset. The atmosphere in the meeting room at the Los Lagos Golf Course — itself a splash of green on the windswept brown landscape of Arizona’s Mojave Desert — is as tense as a coiled spring when Tyler Carlson, CEO of the Mohave Electric Cooperative, steps to the podium.He’s come to convince residents of the Valley View at Sunrise Hills master planned development that putting a new gas-fired power plant less than half a mile from the closest home at its northeast corner will benefit the community.The community is not having it.Senior citizens shift impatiently in their chairs and grumble to each other in not-so-hushed voices. Behind them, a team of MEC employees stands at attention near promotional poster boards that keep toppling off their easels, while two armed police officers monitor the restless scene.Near the front of the room, Jerry and Sherry Grinstead, who retired to their dream home in Sunrise Hills in 2018, sit patiently in their “Not in Any Neighborhood” shirts that depict how the two turbines might look against the mountain view from their backyard. Lined up next to other members of the opposition organizing committee, they are laser-focused on what’s about to happen next.”We understand we haven’t had a lot of information out to you all,” Carlson says. “And I understand that in the absence of that, you’re going to find your own information.”Carlson swiftly yields the floor to Patrick Ledger, executive vice president and CEO of the …
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