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Tell the Gov. to Terminate the Sunrise Powerlink

Tell the Gov. to Terminate the Sunrise Powerlink

Here’s a quick, easy and vital action you can take to stop the unnecessary, destructive and wasteful Sunrise Powerlink. (You know the action is urgent when we resort to Terminator cliche’s!) Why’s this so important right now? Because the other side is also calling and e-mailing him now that the Final EIR has been released and a decision is expected in the next couple of months.

The best, most important, and easiest thing you can do:

Call the Governor at 916-445-2841 (you can choose to speak to a live representative)

What to say:

“Please oppose the unnecessary Sunrise Powerlink, whether it’s the southern or the northern route. A better alternative is renewable, local generation.” (Then if you have time: “The San Diego Smart Energy 2020 plan will cut San Diego’s carbon footprint by 50 percent, far better than anything the Sunrise Powerlink will achieve.”)

If you absolutely don’t want to talk on the phone, the second best thing you can do is send an e-mail. You can simply e-mail the Governor at governor@governor.ca.gov and the Public Utilities Commission at public.advisor@cpuc.ca.gov. Please copy us on your e-mail at: stopSPL@gmail.com.

And if you want to send a pre-written e-mail message with just a few clicks, click here.

Need to learn more about the Sunrise Powerlink? Surf through the posts in the “Sunrise Powerlink” category at DesertBlog, or check out the San Diego Smart Energy Solutions website.

Desert Readings and Book Events

The American West at Risk book cover You’ll have three opportunities starting this weekend to meet two of the co-authors of The American West at Risk: Science, Myths, and Politics of Land Abuse and Recovery. DPC advisory panel member Howard Wilshire and his wife and co-author Jane Nielson will appear at two DPC-sponsored book signings in the Coachella Valley, Saturday, Oct. 25th and Tuesday, Oct. 28th, as well as at DPC’s annual meeting in Twentynine Palms on Sunday, Oct, 26th, at which they will be the key note speakers.

Richard Heinberg, author of Peak Everything, says of The American West at Risk: “We Americans have adopted a ‘use it, throw it away, and move on’ attitude to just about everything that seemed to make sense in an era of geographic expansion and cheap energy. Now we've entered the resulting era of scarcity of water, soil, energy, and more. Can the famously trend-setting West adapt quickly enough? Surely this clearly-written and timely book will help. Changing our land use practices is essential to the survival not just of endangered species, but of human civilization.”

More info on the book events is available here.

In between these DPC-sponsored events, on Monday evening, Oct. 27th, the desert literary journal, Phantom Seed, will host a reading at the Palm Springs Public Library. Among those reading from their work from the just released issue of Phantom Seed, will be Chris Clarke and Ruth Nolan. You can find more details about this reading series here.