GPN Energy Corridor
Green Path North (GPN) would be far more than a narrow line on a map indicating where the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (LADWP) has set markers for its preferred transmission line route.
According to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), approval of LADWP's proposed transmission line route through the high desert would necessarily entail amending the California Desert Conservation Area Plan to allow and designate a new 2- to 5-mile-wide energy corridor. 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.
It is unimaginable what even a 2-mile swath of energy projects would do to the environmentally sensitive conservation lands and
According to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), approval of LADWP's proposed transmission line route through the high desert would necessarily entail amending the California Desert Conservation Area Plan to allow and designate a new 2- to 5-mile-wide energy corridor. 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.
It is unimaginable what even a 2-mile swath of energy projects would do to the environmentally sensitive conservation lands and
BLM map showing the "S" energy corridor (in red) that would be designated if LADWP's preferred GPN transmission line route
is approved
is approved
desert communities along this route from Desert Hot Springs, through the high desert, and culminating in Hesperia. Miles of pristine desert and breathtaking desert views would be lost to multiple energy projects.
While the desert's vistas are vast, its towns and communities are small, too small to absorb a 2- or 5-mile-wide energy corridor. Their citizens should not be asked to sacrifice their homes, their dreams, their economy, and the qualities that enhance their lives: open lands, unspoiled views, proximity to nature. Los Angeles has better alternatives that will be good for everyone, including its rural neighbors.
The 2- to 5-mile wide energy corridor would also run for miles through the conserved lands of the Big Morongo Canyon Preserve, an area of critical environmental concern (ACEC), and the Pioneertown Mountains Preserve. With their wildlands so compromised, how could these nature preserves fulfill their vital role of preserving nature's beauty and biodiversity? How could they fulfill their mission to educate our children about the wonders of nature?
LADWP has better alternatives, including utilizing the existing I-10 energy corridor. A new energy corridor in the California Desert is not needed. Please write to the public officials shown on our Contact Officials page to voice your opposition to this unnecessary new energy corridor.
While the desert's vistas are vast, its towns and communities are small, too small to absorb a 2- or 5-mile-wide energy corridor. Their citizens should not be asked to sacrifice their homes, their dreams, their economy, and the qualities that enhance their lives: open lands, unspoiled views, proximity to nature. Los Angeles has better alternatives that will be good for everyone, including its rural neighbors.
The 2- to 5-mile wide energy corridor would also run for miles through the conserved lands of the Big Morongo Canyon Preserve, an area of critical environmental concern (ACEC), and the Pioneertown Mountains Preserve. With their wildlands so compromised, how could these nature preserves fulfill their vital role of preserving nature's beauty and biodiversity? How could they fulfill their mission to educate our children about the wonders of nature?
LADWP has better alternatives, including utilizing the existing I-10 energy corridor. A new energy corridor in the California Desert is not needed. Please write to the public officials shown on our Contact Officials page to voice your opposition to this unnecessary new energy corridor.
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