But when it comes to San Francisco's water, why, damming up another Yosemite valley in Hetchy Hetchy is just fine.
Posted on 06/14/2005 6:27:06 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The Board of Supervisors passed a resolution Tuesday opposing the construction of a coal-fired power plant in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, close to the spot that draws thousands of people every year to the Burning Man festival.
The resolution passed unanimously with extensive public comment from environmental advocates. It urges the city of Los Angeles to reject Sempra Energy's application to the Department of Water and Power to tap the regional transmission line it partially owns to carry electricity across the border to California.
"This won't be the straw that broke the camel's back, but it's another important signal that this is a wrong-headed project that needs to come to a speedy halt," said Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who sponsored the resolution. "Thousands of San Franciscans understand the beauty of Black Rock desert, and it's our responsibility to voice our opposition to the plant."
Sempra proposes the plant to serve California, which has just placed new restrictions on fossil-fuel pollution. Other energy companies want to harness northwest Nevada's wind and geothermal resources, but the transmission line that sends energy to California customers is too small to carry energy from both traditional and renewable sources.
So the City of San Francisco is taking an official position on whether LA should allow a Nevada company to export power to elsewhere in CA?
All the more reason to build it. My only question is, can they perhaps move it CLOSER to the site? Mahahahahaha!
Why not? San Francisco thinks that it's the water god for all of southern California.
Imagine that - A bunch of self-righteous, self-important liberals chiming in on issues to which they are not party.
They sure are picky for people who recently had a power problem.
Turn off the power to SF.
Who cares what they oppose.
Imagine the idea of putting a coal-fired plant with baqhouse and all next to an open-burning site. Wouldn 't want to pollute the desert air.
You got that right, they oppose any construction of anything that will help their plight in California and maybe lower their energy cost, and just like your typical liberal/democrat , blame it on President Bush.
WOW Bad Apple didn't last long. Idiot.
That is a good idea, since the liberals/democrats always cry about wanting to get back to nature and things, well ? they can go and live back in the 18 th Century.
These burning freeks need to stay out of Nevada! I live in Reno, which is on the way to the burning freek site and these people are disgusting. Every year they have to clean up the site from all the trash they leave behind. When I say these people are freeks, that is an under statement. They all roll into town with the nappy (I have not bathed in 6 months) hair, pierced everything (that you can see and I don't want to know what I can't), hippy clothing and clunker cars. They run around the desert naked and you would not want to look at any of them. I always pray for high winds and rain for that weekend. They don't live here and what they want doesn't mean squat.
But when it comes to San Francisco's water, why, damming up another Yosemite valley in Hetchy Hetchy is just fine.
That sounds like a great reason to start charging them, if not for littering then at least for the cleanup afterwards.
SF should offer to hold the festival on the bay.
Sounds like restraint of interstate trade to me. But who knows with Congress and SCOTUS nowadays.
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