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Residents press Tucson on enforcement, transparency and PFAS after Project Blue presentation
Summary
At a Ward 4 meeting, residents confronted Project Blue developers and city staff about NDAs, ownership disclosure, PFAS‑contaminated wells, whether 'paper' water counts as replenishment, and enforcement measures in the draft development agreement; city and developer representatives pointed to draft penalties, permitting and monitoring but acknowledged some accountability language is still under discussion.
A large crowd of Tucson residents used a Ward 4 community meeting to press developers and city officials on environmental safeguards, accountability and transparency for Project Blue, the proposed Beal Infrastructure data‑center campus.
Residents raised three broad concerns repeatedly: whether the developer’s water‑positivity commitments would produce actual, usable water rather than accounting offsets; whether the draft development agreement contains enforceable caps and remedies if the project exceeds allocations; and whether ownership and vendor relationships are sufficiently disclosed, given reports of early briefing materials shown under nondisclosure agreements.
“I educated myself... and was hit with, I can’t tell you that. I am under an NDA,” said Jordan Ochoa, a native Tucsonan who described being shown material under nondisclosure terms and said that…
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