The Protect Our Communities Foundation

Title: COURT HEARINGLocation: Edward J Schwartz Courthouse, Courtroom 3Link out: Click hereDescription: Public hearing for our case against the BLM. Please arrive early and wear green!Start Time: 09:00Date: 2011-06-21

Come Rally Against SDG&E’s Invitation-Only Groundbreaking for Sunrise Powerlink
When: 9 am, Thursday, December 9th
Where: Rough Acres Ranch, 2750 McCain Valley Road, Boulevard, CA 91905
RSVP to: David Hogan, 760-809-9244, davidhogan@hughes.net (transportation from San
Diego will be available on first come-first serve basis)
Directions to Rough Acres Ranch: (Drive time from downtown San Diego: approx. 1 hour)
1. Take I-8 [...]

Governor-elect Jerry Brown may have the opportunity to dramatically change the makeup of the PUC commission, the regulatory agency that oversees privately owned utilities such as SDG&E. The PUC approved the Sunrise Powerlink in December 2008. Read this blog post for more about how this may impact energy policy in California.

This letter eloquently states our case for continuing the fight against the powerlink.
Editor of the Union Tribune
San Diego, CA
While the UT article on October 15, “Alpine tries to avoid life in the fast lane”, accurately describes the resentment that many in our community feel at the changes being forced upon us by SDG&E, it [...]

Thank you to all our wonderful donors and supporters for exceeded our goal of raising $20,000 by August 16! We raised a total of $31,073! This goes a long way towards our legal fund in fighting against the Sunrise Powerlink in court. We will continue to keep you updated on our activities and any future [...]

We have one week remaining to raise meet our challenge of raising $20,000, which will be matched by an anonymous donor. Donations postmarked by August 16, and any donations received online by August 16 will count towards our total. We have raised a total of $17,668 as of August 7th! Thanks to everyone who has [...]

From POC President Denis Trafecanty:
At 7am this Saturday I’ll be starting the San Diego 100-mile run with about 150 other runners in the Laguna Mountains.  We will go around Big Laguna Lake then north up the Pacific Crest Trail, across Sunrise Highway and down Noble Canyon to Pine Valley.  We then head back up [...]

Reminder: The official public comment period for the US Forest Service decision on the Sunrise Powerlink is June 29. Please send letters to:

Mail: William Metz, Forest Supervisor, 10845 Rancho Bernardo Road, Suite 200, San Diego, CA 92127, ATTN: Sunrise Powerlink Comments
Fax: (858) 673-6192
E-mail: mailroom_r5_cleveland@fs.fed.us, with a subject line of “Sunrise Powerlink Comments”
Phone: [...]

A lawsuit was filed today to stop construction of SDG&E’s Sunrise Powerlink transmission line through southern Imperial and San Diego Counties. The lawsuit was filed in the Federal Eastern District Court in Sacramento.
The lawsuit challenges the decision of the US Bureau of Land Management to approve the power line in January of 2009. Three local [...]

An SDG&E sponsored Community Council meeting was held in Alpine last night to address mitigation issues for the Sunrise Powerlink construction in the Alpine area. The standing room only crowd had many tough questions for SDG&E public relations personnel and engineers, including the big question of where they will get 70 million gallons of water [...]