CDC Makes an Impact at RETI Meeting 1/10/2009
With less than a week's notice of a public meeting on the California Renewable Energy Transmission Initiative (RETI), California Desert Coalition supporters organized an impactful presence outside the Palm Desert City Hall.
In the meeting, our supporters told the RETI Stakeholder Steering Committee in no uncertain terms that the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power's (LADWP's) Green Path North transmission corridor indicated on RETI maps must be removed. RETI had no legitimate basis for assuming this new transmission corridor was a "done deal" long before the legally required federal and state review process has even begun.
In the meeting, our supporters told the RETI Stakeholder Steering Committee in no uncertain terms that the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power's (LADWP's) Green Path North transmission corridor indicated on RETI maps must be removed. RETI had no legitimate basis for assuming this new transmission corridor was a "done deal" long before the legally required federal and state review process has even begun.
Early arriver walks the "gauntlet" of CDC protest signs
LADWP representative Mo Beshir passes parking lot sign. Desert Hot Springs City Councilman Russell Betts and his newly organized Coachella Valley Coalition provided the sign.
Red was the color of the day, as well shown by these CDC supporters
Joan Taylor, Sierra Club Energy Committee Chair and local environmental activist, likely needs no convincing as she talks to CDC sign holders. Taylor and the local San Gorgonio Chapter of Sierra Club adamantly oppose the proposed Green Path North new energy corridor.
CDC supporter talks to the media.
Having fun was a key element of the CDC day
CDC Vice Chair Ruth Rieman and Morongo Valley Representative Meg Foley hold signs they helped create
CDC Pioneertown Representative Claudia Sall (on left)listens as CDC supporter makes a point
Banner illustrates what a Green Path North transmission corridor could look like in the Morongo Basin
Purple, well that's kind of like red, as CDC supporter wears his closest match and protests that taxpayers have been omitted from the RETI process.
More CDC supporters and signs.
And more CDC supporters and signs.
Inside the city council chambers, this photo of one side of the room shows the overflow crowd of CDC supporters and other organizations objecting to the Green Path North transmission corridor.
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