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Attend a meeting for volunteers in San Diego
Send an e-mail: sunrise@aspeneg.com
Recent news coverage has focused on the impact the Sunrise Powerlink will have on Anza-Borrego Desert State Park’s namesake species. Good coverage in the
North County Times .
This coverage is based not just on quotes from those of us in the environmental community, but on the CPUC’s own
Environmental Impact Report, which lists many less environmentally damaging alternatives to the Sunrise Powerlink.
While the environmental consequences of the Powerlink are now clear, the CPUC will still decide whether the supposed benefits of the Powerlink outweigh its environmental costs. We need to let them know that Californians will not accept threats to bighorn sheep, degradation of wilderness values, and lasting scars on our state parks. There are many better ways to bring sustainable energy to San Diego.
The hearings are over, and they were a great success! Powerlink opponents packed meeting rooms from Borrego Springs to downtown San Diego. The efforts of the chamber’s fake grassroots group paled by comparison. Kelly Fuller has posted a great 4-minute news clip of the Borrego Springs hearing on her blog.
There are two more actions you can take:
- Send a written comment to the CPUC (even if you spoke at one of the hearings). Go HERE for complete details. Don’t be overwhelmed by the number comments listed. We offer a smorgasboard of choices for you to choose from, arranged from simple to technical. Just pick one or two that you like, and make sure to include your personal reasons for opposing the Sunrise Powerlink. Please copy us on these letters at connect AT dpcinc DOT org.
- Send a letter to the editor. The North County Times and the Union-Tribune had commentaries and editorials supporting the Sunrise Powerlink in recent days. Send a letter to the editor of the NC Times and/or the U-T. Make sure to include your name, address and phone number, and keep it under 200 words. Please DON’T cc us on your letter to the editor, but if you want to send it separately to us at connect AT dpcinc DOT org, that’s great.
Suggested points to make in your letters to the editor:
- We can meet our energy needs with clean, reliable, locally produced power. We don’t need the Sunrise Powerlink. We need San Diego Smart Energy 2020!
- Once we start using state parks, wilderness, and open space areas for infrastructure, we will soon have no open space, wilderness or parks left.
- Until the 1980s, San Diego produced most of its own power. Why not now? To push the impacts of San Diego’s growing power needs onto distant communities and public lands is the height of NIMBYism.
- As the draft EIR points out on page ES-25, the Sunrise Powerlink would actually create more greenhouse gas emissions than it would save, even if it carried 100% renewable energy. If using renewables doesn’t reduce global warming, what’s the point?
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