LarryHogue's story links

A great report on the California Public Utility Commission hearings into the Sunrise Powerlink from Utility Consumers Action Network's Michael Shames. He points out that this proposed transmission line will cost ratepayers a lot of money and isn't really about renewable energy.

A podcast with beautiful descriptions of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in California, one of the most outstanding, but threatened, parks in the United States. Superintendent Mark Jorgensen, desert author Diana Lindsay, and astronomer Dennis Mamana speak about what makes the park special, and worthy of protection from industrial development.

A page with information on how anyone concerned with true renewable energy solutions can help to stop the wasteful, destructive and unnecessary Sunrise Powerlink. This proposed transmission line will increase our dependence on foreign fossil fuels, and won't reduce global warming.

A site devoted to promoting and protecting wilderness areas in California, especially southern Cal. Also includes info on such threats as the Sunrise Powerlink and Blackwater USA's proposed training facility (recently defeated).

A video showing the reality behind the Sunrise Powerlink. Crank up The Who's "We Don't Get Fooled Again" as you watch. Get the truth at www.sdsmartenergy.org, or any of the other websites listed at the end.

Like their neighbors in Carmel Valley, Rancho Penasquitos is also concerned about the destructive, anti-green, and unnecessary Sunrise Powerlink.

It's not just Imperial County desert, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, and San Diego's rural communities that will be degraded by the Sunrise Powerlink -- as if that weren't bad enough -- but San Diego's suburban neighborhoods and precious urban open spaces as well. The Sunrise Powerlink is destructive, anti-green, and unnecessary. Don't buy SDG&E's greenwashing campaign.

An article published online by the Center for Biological Diversity, full of details on why the Sunrise Powerlink isn't the clean, green, renewable-energy-delivering machine SDG&E makes it out to be.

A coalition of communities united to promote better alternatives to the destructive, anti-green, and unnecessary Sunrise Powerlink.

A page on the website of the Anza-Borrego Foundation & Institute about how the destructive, anti-green, and unnecessary Sunrise Powerlink would affect Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Surf from there to pages about programs in the park, classes for adults and children, and this spring's widlflower bloom.

One of the first websites devoted exclusively to stopping the destructive, anti-green, and unnecessary Sunrise Powerlink.

The website of the Protect Our Communities Fund, one of the groups fighting to stave off the destructive, unnecessary, and anti-green Sunrise Powerlink. The group is centered around Santa Ysabel, Ranchita, Julian, Mesa Grande, and other communities in San Diego's backcountry.

A slideshow video from a San Diego activist showing some of the public lands and National Forests that would be destroyed by one routing of the proposed Sunrise Powerlink (the other route goes through Anza-Borrego Desert State Park). The text is a little hard to read, but the photos are beautiful. For more complete info on the Sunrise Powerlink, go to www.sdsmartenergy.org.

A video showing that SDG&E's true purpose in proposing the Sunrise Powerlink, a 150-mile transmission line through Anza-Borrego Desert State Park and San Diego's rural communities, is to bring fossil-fuel power north from Mexico. Rather than bringing renewable power from Imperial Valley, the line will mainly be used as a link to get the fossil-fuel power to Los Angeles.

A website promoting the San Diego Smart Energy 2020 plan, which presents alternatives for local, clean generation that reduce San Diego's energy-related carbon footprint by 50% by 2020. This is the true green alternative to the Sunrise Powerlink, SDG&E's proposed transmission line between the desert and San Diego.