Power line to be topic

There have been months of speculation over a proposed power line in San Bernardino County.

[snap shot]

Power lines are they way we did business for the last 100 years. No body is serious about going green. If they were they would not be talking about power lines. If it solar we need to put it on buildings. I think hydrogen generators is the way to go zero emission each person would run their own generator. General Motors has a plan to bulid in the desert using hydrogen. It would reduce the cost by billions of dollars. No body talking about saving money just spending it the problem is we do not have any right now. In the IE air quality is a joke. The cities will not allow trucks at night. The biggest example is Greyhound they do not run any buses at night in the IE why because Cities are worried about the night. We need to get over it and start doing what we can do that does not cost any thing and might save money. That what are leaders do not seem to understand.

[Joe Banks]

What this article fails to mention is that 90% of the power generated by this project will be for LA county, yet the high voltage powerlines will run across some of the most scenic desert views in Southern California. LA's "Out of site, out of mind" policy has some serious flaws! Why should high desert residents be forced to view, daily, ugly power lines across sensitive ecosystems (Like Little Morongo), when there is nothing in it for them? Just a few days ago, Edison announced a 20% rate increase request. Any guess where this money is going? To projects like this, which have no real purpose! Edison could use existing lines, but they are *intentionally* choosing to build a new distribution system, from Desert Hot Springs to Hesperia, just for this project. Please, save the desert, and stop Project Greenpath North!

[Yucca Mesa]

The big city has been encroaching on what used to be a beautiful amazing Desert that is home to an ancient old growth forrest.

This is home to some of the rarest species of plant and animal life. People used to live here because they appreciated this and most cared for the land.

City people come because they see money. Land, housing tracts, more businesses because we don't want to stress the city people out and make them have to drive down the hill to shop for crap they probably don't need.

They see Joshua Trees as ugly and unecessary. Ancient creasote, yucca's, even the tiny rare desert flowers are just a bothersome weed. They clear cut land that will NEVER be able to recover.

So all the lives that onces flourished are gone forever. Tortuses, coyotes, owls, bats, reptiles, taratulas, kangaroo rats, etc. are dead forever.

In 100 years your crappy cookie cutter home will be dust, but the land will never recover. Some of these plants are over 1000 years old.

Leave the land for the children. Take your "Green Path" your mega stores, your restaurants and your equity and move back to where you came from.

The people who once lived in harmony with this land, all the coyotes and millions of creatures that live here are better off without you. Leave us alone before it is too late.