Read the rest here.Not to impugn Nahai's sincerity, but the 3-year-long history of GPN indicates a project far along in LADWP's planning process. LADWP has spent nearly $26 million to date on the project and has already completed feasibility studies on 5 routes. Nahai says he has made a difference since he became general manager, pointing to the removal of survey markers, but does not mention that he was on the LADWP Board of Commissioners during the full 3-year GPN planning process.
Most disturbing is Mr. Nahai's continuing contention that LADWP does not have a preferred route for GPN. Even subsequent to the Yucca Valley meeting, the Imperial Irrigation District, LADWP's partner in GPN, displays the one route and only one route that, according to public records, LADWP has worked to establish since July 2006. This is the environmentally destructive route through the high desert and its communities.
Following up on Big Solar, the Bureau of Land Management has posted on-line the public comments received during the scoping period of the Solar Energy Development Programmatic Environmental Impact Study (PEIS), viewable from here. MBCA's comments are also on view on our Website.
MORE INFO ON THIS TOPIC: At California Desert Coalition and on the Energy page of the MBCA Website. Previous posts on this blog: Energy, Green Path North.
