Desert Residents: Urgent! Help Fight Big Energy Project (SCEs Coolwater-Lugo) Letters Must Be Submitted Before January 8! Read on... The Mojave Communities Conservation Collaborative (Mc3) is still working to stop Southern California Edison’s Coolwater Lugo Transmission project, along with the huge local windmill projects and solar farms that it would facilitate. Lorrie Steely, founder of Mc3, is asking the community to participate in an urgent letter-writing campaign before January 8. The deadline for SCE to submit their report seeking to justify this project is January 8. She suggests including the following points in your own words: • Clearly state that you oppose SCE Coolwater Lugo Transmission and Desert View Substation projects to be built in your rural desert community. • The goals of industrial scale renewable energy will negatively impact our community economically, socially and environmentally and will be felt now and for generations to come. • Announcement by NRG on retirement of coolwater generating facility • Project cost is concern expressed by the Office of Ratepayers Advocates in their official protest of this project. • These types of renewable energy projects are speculative at best. Pitiful results documented: Don’t producethe energy promised; problems like underestimated fossil fuel usage, flooding and blade-throws. (ie. Ivanpah solar plant; Ocotillo Wind Energy farm). • Environmental impacts: Political corruption in industry means environmental concerns are being ignored. (Inspector General of Dept. of Interior report released in Nov. 2014 confirms senior Obama admin. official with energy ties pressured subordinates to ignore environmental concerns in favor of rubber-stamp approvals). • SCE has not practiced “due diligence” in their public outreach, (ie. signs announcing public hearings posted in middle of desert where no one would see them.) • The “need” for this project has been fabricated by SCE, a big utility seeking big profits for investors, not logical clean energy solutions. PLEASE go to: DesertNewsPost and read FULL ARTICLE, and TO GET CONTACT INFO FOR GOVT REPS: desertnewspost/mc3-founder-urges-public-submit-letters-big-energy-jan-8/INFO: To gain more insight into this big issue, read these recently published articles: (Copy & Paste Link in Browser) desertnewspost/wind-turbines-and-giant-power-poles-could-invade-apple-valleys-scenic-vistas/ desertnewspost/investigation-sheds-light-industry-influence-desert-policy/ desertnewspost/coming-desert-near-big-solar-projects-really-necessary/ utsandiego/news/2014/dec/18/desert-renewable-energy-plan/ sbsun/opinion/20141215/photovoltaic-solar-power-the-better-alternative-thomas-elias desertnewspost/drecp-plan-high-desert-corridor-projects-energy-mind/
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 18:38:48 +0000
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