(click title to entry - thank you) ...“We particularly value the administration’s recognition that renewable energy technologies, if not properly planned and sited, could have a disastrous impact on California’s exceedingly fragile deserts, and we look forward to working with the governor’s staff during this process,” Shaw said. “We have to do this quickly, but we have to do this right.”...
Chlorophyll and the ecotones and ecosystems that primary producers support are JUST as valuable if not more so as the alternative energies that seek to destroy them. Destroying conservation and its values along the way to alternative energy sources will make the CO2 content over the USA higher, not lower !
If protections of California's deserts can be appreciated, so can the other sensitive areas of the state.
Mill Creek drainage, San Bernardino National Forest
Apr 09,2007
Environmentalists fight 'green' plan (click here)
by UPI
LOS ANGELES - A push to bring "green energy" to Los Angeles would destroy wildlife preserves and mar scenic vistas, say California environmental activists.
The proposed 85-mile "Green Path" corridor would put power lines and transmission towers through the San Bernardino National Forest and the Big Morongo Wildlife Preserve north of Palm Springs.
The plan to import nonpolluting power is supported by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, but opposed by more than a dozen preservation and community groups, the Los Angeles Times said.
"Not only is such energy consumption not 'green,' it is unacceptable under any name," said Justin Augustine of the Center for Biological Diversity.
Los Angeles faces strict new state laws to replace polluting coal-fired power with renewable energy.
The Green Path project reflects the complications many communities nationwide face in determining how to bring wind, sun and steam power from remote rural areas to cities, the Times reported.
20 months ago: MORONGO VALLEY, CA - APRIL 11: The San Jacinto Mountains are seen in the distance behind new green growth at a honey mesquite grove as recovery from a 2005 wildfire continues at Big Morongo Wildlife Preserve on April 11, 2007 in Morongo Valley, California. The preserve, faces the prospect of being affected by a proposed plan to build power lines and transmission towers to deliver "green" energy to Los Angeles from geothermal, solar, and nuclear sources in southeastern California near the Salton Sea, and Arizona. The 85-mile-long "Green Path" energy corridor being pushed by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to bring nonpolluting power to Los Angeles would cut through two desert wildlife preserves, a national forest, and Pioneertown, a set used in the filming of countless westerns. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP) and the mayor have been condemned by more than a dozen preservation and community groups for the project that threatens to destroy wildlife corridors, natural areas, and vistas. Big Morongo Canyon, west of Joshua Tree National Park, is designated by the Bureau of Land Management as an Area of Critical Environmental Concern and is one of the 10 largest cottonwood and willow riparian, or stream, habitats in California. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)
