Do you know the answer to the following question? A clue -- the answer is real scary!
How wide a path is Green Path North -- 330 feet? 3,500 feet? 2 to 5 miles?
CDC has learned from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) that approval of Green Path North transmission lines along LADWP's preferred route would necessarily entail an amendment to the California Desert Conservation Area Plan. This amendment would designate a new 2- to 5-mile-wide energy corridor through the high desert; all future transmission line projects in the region, as well as all oil, water, and gas line projects would be built in what would then be this approved corridor.
So, while the LADWP right-of-way (ROW) application requests a 330-ft ROW, and LADWP's request for a new energy corridor through the West-Wide Energy Corridor process relates to a 3,500-ft-wide energy corridor, the bottom line is if we don't stop Green Path North our communities and desert will be designated as the place for an energy corridor 2 to 5 miles wide.
To visualize what this new energy corridor would look like and for further information, please go to our website at www.cadesertco.org.
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.
