Environmental issues regarding Anza Borrego
Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan (DRECP)
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kylekai Posts: 82
11/20/2014
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I just received this from the president of the Tubb canyon Desert Conservancy and I thought some here would find it interesting and relevant to the Anza Borrego desert:
Dear Friends of Tubb Canyon,
If you have not yet read about the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan (DRECP) (www.drecp.org) to place utility-scale electricity generating facilities on more than 2,000,000 acres of southern California desert and the attendant problems with this plan, please take 10 minutes to read the synopsis at www.tubbcanyondesertconservancy.org.
The good news is the California Energy Commission has decided to extend the public review period for this 8000-page juggernaut by 6 weeks to February 23, 2015.
The bad news is that is still not enough time for the public to weigh in. The review period should be 360 days.
Once you have read the synopsis and are up to speed, please make your voice heard by sending your public comments to docket@energy.ca.gov. Make sure you put "DRECP NEPA/CEQA” in the subject line.
The Tubb Canyon site provides suggestions as to comments you may want to make, or you may cut and paste from the attached letter.
Please share this information with any and all friends who may care about preventing this looming ecological disaster.
David
PS: I have included a map of the DRECP's “preferred alternative” as it looks from the Borrego Springs perspective.
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dsefcik Administrator Posts: 2624
11/20/2014
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Thanks kylekai.....after the several years of personal involvement trying to stop the SPL and the Ocotillo wind farm projects, I really wonder how much "weigh in" the public has given the the current renewal policies. I know we shouldn't give up but I am a bit jaded and pessimistic at this point 
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kylekai Posts: 82
11/21/2014
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Good point. But I got a second email, and it involves just signing a petition. Easy and may be effective:
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Dear Friends,
I have never used Moveon.org before, so this note to you represents another step into the digital age. Moveon.org claims it will be able to help us get the word out about the shortcomings of the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan if just 10 people sign this petition. So, if you have a moment, please click on the link below and sign the petition. This feels a little like putting a note in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean. Well, here we go!
The following is the body of the petition:
More renewable energy is available from rooftop solar in San Diego and Los Angeles Counties than will be derived from the siting of utility-scale generating facilities on 2 million acres of desert habitat called for in the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan. The unintended consequences of utility-scale facilities in the desert are becoming known and are unacceptable--dust storms in Lancaster, midair incineration of birds at Ivanpah, depletion of scarce groundwater in Borrego Springs.
That's why I created a petition to Chris Beale, DRECP Acting Exec. Dir., Robert B. Weisenmiller, Chair, California Energy Commission, and Jerry Brown, Governor, California.
Will you sign this petition? Click here:
http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/we-dont-have-to-sacrifice?source=c.em.mt&r_by=1516679
Many thanks
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ziphius Posts: 911
11/22/2014
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Thanks for the heads-up. Existing rooftops. Yes.
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