New billboard delivers message to Mayor Villaraigosa in a big way.
Located on the eastbound I-10 Fwy. by Cabazon, CA
A dinosaur has reared its ugly head in the California Desert. This giant is neither jolly nor green, and the outdated paradigm it represents needs to disappear into the fossil record as it has no place in the 21st Century.
Yes, the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (LADWP) is at it again, this time trying to destroy another rural region and unique ecosystem--the California Desert.
To what could be this century's most compelling problem, climate change, the archaic Los Angeles utility has brought its 19th Century solution--build more transmission lines. It has also brought its greed, wanting to own and control these transmission lines rather than share existing transmission routes and transmission capacity planning.
Green Path North is a 500-kilovolt transmission line project and new energy corridor that LADWP wants to establish on protected lands and across scenic vistas of the California Desert, as well as through rural desert communities.
LADWP's preferred route would run for miles though sensitive areas in the Big Morongo Canyon Preserve Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC), the Pioneertown Mountains Preserve, and undeveloped natural areas on public lands.
It would pass through communities from Desert Hot Springs to Hesperia and would impact 30 miles of privately owned property that could be taken from its rural owners through eminent domain proceedings.
Initially, gigantic metal power poles and transmission lines would march across the desert along this 85-mile-long route. But that would be only the beginning.
Approval of the project would entail amending the California Desert Conservation Area Plan, which has protected these lands since 1980. This amendment would designate a new 2- to
5-mile-wide energy corridor on federal lands in which all future oil, water, gas, and additional transmission line projects would be built.
LADWP does not need to destroy the desert to protect the planet. Renewable energy is a big part of the solution to the global climate change problem, but as other nations have discovered, the technology is now available to generate this energy locally, using true innovation like roof-top solar panels, thin film photovoltaic, and other renewable generation technologies applied within Los Angeles' own borders. Existing transmission corridors can be used, in this case the I-10 corridor, using new high-conductivity lines, and sharing with California's other energy producers rather than pursuing LADWP's proprietary agenda using phantom congestion scares.
We cannot allow archaic thinking, selfish promotion of proprietary interests, and unfair exploitation of rural communities to dominate the renewable energy discussion and compromise California's desert bioregion and its communities.
Yes, the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (LADWP) is at it again, this time trying to destroy another rural region and unique ecosystem--the California Desert.
To what could be this century's most compelling problem, climate change, the archaic Los Angeles utility has brought its 19th Century solution--build more transmission lines. It has also brought its greed, wanting to own and control these transmission lines rather than share existing transmission routes and transmission capacity planning.
Green Path North is a 500-kilovolt transmission line project and new energy corridor that LADWP wants to establish on protected lands and across scenic vistas of the California Desert, as well as through rural desert communities.
LADWP's preferred route would run for miles though sensitive areas in the Big Morongo Canyon Preserve Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC), the Pioneertown Mountains Preserve, and undeveloped natural areas on public lands.
It would pass through communities from Desert Hot Springs to Hesperia and would impact 30 miles of privately owned property that could be taken from its rural owners through eminent domain proceedings.
Initially, gigantic metal power poles and transmission lines would march across the desert along this 85-mile-long route. But that would be only the beginning.
Approval of the project would entail amending the California Desert Conservation Area Plan, which has protected these lands since 1980. This amendment would designate a new 2- to
5-mile-wide energy corridor on federal lands in which all future oil, water, gas, and additional transmission line projects would be built.
LADWP does not need to destroy the desert to protect the planet. Renewable energy is a big part of the solution to the global climate change problem, but as other nations have discovered, the technology is now available to generate this energy locally, using true innovation like roof-top solar panels, thin film photovoltaic, and other renewable generation technologies applied within Los Angeles' own borders. Existing transmission corridors can be used, in this case the I-10 corridor, using new high-conductivity lines, and sharing with California's other energy producers rather than pursuing LADWP's proprietary agenda using phantom congestion scares.
We cannot allow archaic thinking, selfish promotion of proprietary interests, and unfair exploitation of rural communities to dominate the renewable energy discussion and compromise California's desert bioregion and its communities.
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