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90 miles east of Los Angeles sits this billboard telling Mayor Villaraigosa to cut it out. But why do people far away from LA care? It's the controversial Green Path Power Project, a plan that would bring geothermal, solar, wind and other renewable energy from the Salton Sea area of Imperial Valley to Los Angeles via a new yet-to-built electrical transmission line.
As usual with these issues, it's not that green energy is a bad thing, it's how it will be done and what effects it has on the communities the energy is passing through. For Los Angeles to be green from this project, you have to build miles and miles of power lines through a sensitive desert eco-system. Of the routes proposed over the past few years, lines could go through Joshua Tree National Park, Big Morongo Canyon Preserve Area, Pioneertown Mountains Preserve and undeveloped natural areas on public lands.
But last month, the LADWP presented a plan that environmentalists are cautiously happier with. The 80-mile route "would run 230-kilovolt power lines westward from just below Desert Hot Springs in Riverside County to Lytle Creek," explains the San Bernardino Sun. "The path would dip south of the 10 Freeway near Banning, then follow the freeway northwest through San Timoteo Canyon, Loma Linda, Colton and Rialto before terminating in Lytle Creek."
San Bernardino County Supervisor Neil Derry, whose district would carry those lines, still has some concerns, he told the Sun. "What alleviates concerns in one area will raise concerns in another." Sensitive desert ecosystems may be avoided, but new issues arrise with the lines going through the cities of Loma Linda, Grand Terrace, Redlands and San Bernardino. Some of those concerns could be put to rest with underground vaults for the lines.
"It involves 10 cities and is by no means an easy route," Joseph Ramallo of the LADWP told the Press-Enterprise. "Just as there were opponents who expressed concerns about the route through Morongo and Yucca valleys, we expect there will be concerns raised about [the the route]."
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Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown!
SEN. HARRY REID, TRAITOR TO AMERICAN WORKERS! E-VERIFY! 99.6 % SUCCESS RATE!
Don't let E-Verify expire and play into the hands of the corporate overlords and pro-illegal immigration special Interest lobby?
It's incoherent to me that Americans cannot conceive, that they have the ultimate power to halt this corruption in Washington? The major priority is to stop illegal labor getting work. American workers must command mandatory E-verify from these inanimate politicians? Don't let the corporate overlords win anymore? March 6th, is the deadline to stop this corruption in the Congress. Don't hesitate to stop head traitor Harry Reid of Nevada who secretly eroded the power of E-Verify? His Partners in dropping this major law was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Senator Gutierrez (D-IL), Sen. Feinstein (D-CAL), Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ),Max Baucus (D-MT), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Rahm Emanuel D-Chief of Staff)
Not only are politicians involved in intentionally engineering this illegal immigration crisis? State Governors, Mayors, judges, county elected officers and city officials qualify equally to be thrown out on the street? Although all of them can get a favorable job with the ominous US Chamber of Commerce, Council of La Raza and other open borders special interest groups. Find out the honest politicians that support E-Verify, like Sen. Sessions, Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA). that would smash illegal immigration priority in the workplace. Locate those who killed E-Verify? Ruin their careers when they come up for re-election. Remember the deaths caused in Sanctuary cities nationwide by illegal alien gang members. AntonioVillaraigosa of Los Angeles is an open-border Mayor, who must be removed from his position as he has given free benefits to aliens, who illegally crossed the undermanned border to the Sanctuary State of California.
The whole country is feeling the financial pressure, for paying for schooling, health care and prisons. Your also paying for traffic gridlock, and high environmental damage caused by overpopulation.
Explode your anger at these lawmakers on the capitol switchboard (202) 224-3121. Leave a message for President Obama at 202) 224-3121
What www.judicialwatch.org has to say about political corruption
Whistle-blowers! Inform ICE for illegal aliens working for pariah contractors in the construction industry. Heritage Foundation has indicated that 30.000 jobs could be stolen by illegal foreign labor in stimulus plans.
LOL, Kint.