The Protect Our Communities Foundation

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 [...]

Thanks so much to everyone who came out for Dianne Jacob’s Town Hall meeting in Alpine last Thursday. I personally talked to people from all over the county, not just Alpine. They were here to show their support for our cause and voice their opposition to SDG&E’s flawed and short-sighted plan. For a recap and [...]

Title: Alpine Community Council MeetingLocation: Alpine Women\’s Center, 2156 Alpine BlvdDescription: SDG&E Community Council meeting to discuss impacts to the Campo area from the Sunrise Powerlink. Open to the public.Start Time: 18:00Date: 2010-02-15

Title: Town Hall Meeting
Location: Alpine Community Center
Description: A Town Hall Meeting hosted by Supervisor Diane Jacobs to discuss the impact to Alpine of the Sunrise Powerlink.
Date: 2010-01-14
Time: 6-8pm

There are many large solar and wind projects vying for approval on federal lands in California, including some that are directly linked to the Sunrise Powerlink project. One project seeking approval in the Mojave desert may become a benchmark case in the fight between those seeking to preserve pristine federal lands and the large scale [...]

The fall issue of East County Community Action Coalition’s newsletter includes an eye-opening article about Assemblyman Joel Anderson, who met with POC Board members and refused to take a stand on the Sunrise Powerlink, despite it’s effect on a large portion of his constituents. Read the newsletter here. Also included in the newsletter is another [...]

The federal government awarded over $800 million in bonds for solar funding nationwide, with San Diego County receiving almost 20% of the funding. Over 200 separate projects throughout the county received the grants, with the San Diego Unified School District receiving the most: $74.3 million for 111 projects. Other recipients include the City of [...]