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Sunrise Powerlink: Don’t Get Fooled Again

Today marks the 2nd anniversary of the day Kelly Fuller completed her epic walk along one route of the proposed Sunrise Powerlink. It also happens to be the last day to comment on this destructive, unnecessary and anti-green project.

In honor of the day, we’ve posted a new video slideshow on YouTube. It features many of the places Kelly worked so hard to protect from the Sunrise Powerlink, with a little bit of history thrown in, and info on the upcoming public hearings in May (more on those later). I envisioned the slideshow with The Who’s “We Don’t Get Fooled Again” playing with it. Until we can get the artists’ permission to use the song, just crank it up on your iPod while watching.

Unfortunately, but not unexpectedly, SANDAG chose to mark the day by endorsing the Sunrise Powerlink, ignoring the recommendation of its own Energy Working Group. Bill Powers reports that 60 people got up to speak at the meeting, and 3/4 of them opposed the Powerlink.

More on Web 2.0

Here at DesertBlog, we’re determined to drag the Sunrise Powerlink coalition and other public lands activists into the world of new media. (A lot of “global warming activists” and other young “greens” are very savvy with the Internet, but don’t know much about conserving public lands. We need to be able to speak to them.) Here’s what to do:

Once you’ve viewed the video, please take full advantage of YouTube’s rating feature: rate the video by clicking the stars and mark it as a favorite. Then share it with friends and family (especially teens and twenty-somethings with FaceBook and MySpace pages). This is how videos spread virally on YouTube and through the Internet.

Then go to this link on Hugg.com and vote for the video (you’ll need to register).

There’s also this page on Hugg that collects a lot of anti-Powerlink websites and videos. (If you know of one that’s not here, just leave a comment and I’ll add it, or you can always post it yourself.) You can vote for as many of these sites as you choose (the more huggs the merrier!) and of course, clicking through to them also increases their rankings. Think of it as a clean, green, Powerlink-spam-free space on the net.