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Posted by: scriblerus1 1 year, 11 months ago

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PG&E has notified us that they intend to "buy" our land to build a 40 acre substation. When all is said and done, we will lose about $500,000 after the substation drives down real estate values of our property and our neighbors'. Oh well, transformers are nicer than wild flowers.

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scriblerus1
Jan. 19, 2008, 4:54 p.m.
The title of PG&E's project is The Central Valley Clean Energy Transmission Project, which is an Orwellian misnomer. Even though the project transmits energy sourced from solar, geothermal, and wind sources, the building of this project is hardly environmental. It will require the removal of tens of thousands of blue and live oaks over a 150 mile corridor in addition to the damage it will do to the heretofore peaceful valley my family has called home for four generations.
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icono1
Jan. 19, 2008, 5:52 p.m.
They just love to tell you how their progress is really your progress when,if the truth be known, there is no progress at all; just profit for the power company.
Another ploy is to tell you how much they love nature when in reality nature is a great impediment to their goal(s); expansion of the power gird which equals expansion of the company's customer base which equals, you guessed it, expansion of the company's profit margin.
Then they tell you they will 'upgrade to "modern technology" alternatives' when it is economically feasible and or when the technology is really available and or when the govt allows them to.
I could go on and on.
Good luck in your fight and remember if they don't get their way then the govt steps in and "makes things right" hahahahaha...
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scriblerus1
Jan. 19, 2008, 10:46 p.m.
Lot's of it is about government subsidies. Thirty years ago, when SC Edison and PG&E put in the Helms project in the High Sierra east of us, they had to rebuild the Dinkey Creek road from hardly more than a 4-wheeler road to a highway. Taxpayers paid for most of it. Here, we are protected from "civilization" by another poor road. I'm quite sure the same thing will happen. I am beginning to feel a little like what the Indians who lived here must have felt when the Gold Rush started and "civilization" came to them.
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gamahuche
Jan. 19, 2008, 8:11 p.m.
That really sucks, S.
Good luck in your fight!
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Bkumm
Jan. 19, 2008, 9:10 p.m.
Is there really not a better place to put this substation? There must be some area, perhaps not optimal to PG&E, but better for all involved.
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cowboygrandpa
Jan. 20, 2008, 3:29 a.m.
Good luck to you, your family and neighbors. These clowns all have dollar signs and ego problems.
They have to have their way. Well they won't get their way always. If you get my drift.
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Truzseeker
Jan. 22, 2008, 6:20 p.m.
PGE = Pacific Gaffe and Extortion :)