Sempra's "Foreign Fossil Fuel Corridor" also known as the Sunrise Powerlink 500KV transmission line : connecting Sempra's foreign, polluting natural gas via the electrical grid- to monopolize the Greater Los Angeles market. The Sunrise Powerlink is NOT for San Diego - the Sunrise Powerlink has NO "renewables" or "green" energy.
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SEMPRA'S GREATER LOS ANGELES ELECTRIC GRID MONOPOLY + SEMPRA'S FORCED FOREIGN ENERGY DEPENDENCE = SEMPRA'S SUNRISE POWERLINK + SEMPRA'S Termoelectrica de Mexicali + Sempra's Natural Gas Pipelines + SEMPRA'S COSTA AZUL LNG TERMINAL & PORT (ENSENADA) + LNG Shipping Tankers + SAKHALIN, RUSSIA, NEW GUINEA
CHENEY-BUSH UNLAWFULLY AUTHORIZES SEMPRA'S (SDGE) SUNRISE POWERLINK 500 KV AS "IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST" (PRESIDENTIAL PERMIT), TO ALLOW SEMPRA (via SDG&E) TO FREELY SEIZE AND STEAL CALIFORNIA'S PUBLIC & PRIVATE LAND - AND ALSO TO AID AND ABET SEMPRA'S PLAN TO MONOPOLIZE THE GREATER LOS ANGELES GRID WITH FOREIGN, POLLUTING, UNNEEDED, EXPENSIVE ENERGY - (SEMPRA'S NATURAL GAS FROM RUSSIA AND INDONESIA- SHIPPED & STORED IN ENSENADA, BAJA).
Sempra's Sunrise Powerlink's TRUE purpose:
Sempra: Exporting Pollution - Greenpeace - Corpwatch:
Sempra's Sunrise Powerlink - Bush Energy Policy - the true story:
BP & Sempra (two of a kind) in partnership to ship foreign LNG to Costa Azul
June 2, 2011 USA Natural Gas Glut...USA exporting its natural gas to other countries:http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/34fbf112-8d39-11e0-bf23-00144feab49a.html#axzz1RjxUxI6X
Sempra's Costa Azul LNG (Sunrise Powerlink 500KV via Sempra's Termoelectrica de Mexicali)--costs more than double compared to USA domestic LNG :
http://www.jamestownpress.com/news/2011-05-12/Letters_to_the_Editor/US_is_in_a_natural_gas_glut.html
In 2004, Sempra/SDG&E's Sunrise Powerlink was marketed and understood to be the "California Phase" of Sempra's plan to carry (via California's electrical grid) their foreign LNG from Sempra's Costa Azul storage plants in Ensenada-through Sempra's Mexicali gas fired electricity generating plant (Termoelectrica de Mexicali), in Baja.
THE SUNRISE POWERLINK 500KV Bush/Cheney "PRESIDENTIAL PERMIT" CONTAINS NO MENTION OR CONSIDERATION OF ANY "RENEWABLE ENERGY". Sunrise Powerlink's highly touted but never in writing "false promise" of renewable energy was only an afterthought - to gain public support - Sempra never had any intention of ever using the Powerlink for anything but delivery of their foreign sourced electricity from overseas, stored in Baja (Costa Azul LNG) - to monopolize the Los Angeles grid.
Halliburton: Corporate Crimes: http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=275
Cheney's "favors":
Sempra/ SDG&E's Sunrise Powerlink is NOT, and has NEVER been "of National Interest" as the Sempra-friendly Bush administration allowed. In fact, the Sunrise Powerlink would be an unnecessary, expensive DETRIMENT (of national dis-interest), creating an unfair monopoly, exclusively for Sempra, of the Los Angeles market. Sempra Energy is a global company, with a history of market manipulation and other high crimes against the United States.
USA domestic natural gas is at an all time glut- there is over-production - US domestic natural gas is much cheaper - US domestic natural gas carries a 25% LESS GHG (greenhouse gas) burden. Major corporations are currently tearing up our National Parks and BLM lands drilling massive quantities of natural gas in the USA.
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Financial Times: June, 2011 -US Natural Gas Glut - USA is shipping LNG to other countries - to drive up domestic prices:
On June 1, 2011: "In a memo to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Director Bob Abbey, Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar today confirmed that, pursuant to the 2011 Continuing Resolution, the BLM will not designate any lands as "Wild Lands." Thus opening up America's "not" wild lands to even more natural gas drilling....If these companies are going to take away all of our public lands - then at least California should be "buying" this over-produced US domestic natural gas (domestic is much cheaper than Sempra's foreign LNG anyway)! Sempra's Bush/Cheney authorized foreign natural gas monopoly (Sunrise Powerlink - for the Los Angeles grid, no less), would compete and overrule our own US domestic natural gas companies!
AN OUTRAGEOUS INJUSTICE - THOUGHTLESS!
The people of California would have to pay $BILLIONS and the USA domestic natural gas industry would lose $BILLIONS -- for this foreign Sempra/SDG&E lie!
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Sunrise Powerlink extreme fire danger to San Diego County: http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/node/3284
Sempra/SDG&E seizing over 300,000 gallons per day from San Diego's rationed tap water- just to spray down dust on their private construction sites: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/may/25/sdge-project-soaks-up-scarce-tap-water/
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The Sunrise Powerlink has NOTHING to do with the utility, SDG&E (San Diego Gas & Electric). The Sunrise Powerlink is not for San Diego, will not carry any electricity for San Diego, and will not carry any renewable energy for San Diego.
The only "energy" Sempra/SDG&E's Sunrise Powerlink 500KV transmission line will deliver to San Diego?...WILDFIRES and skyrocketing SDG&E utility bills!!!
The Sunrise Powerlink has NOTHING to do with the utility, SDG&E (San Diego Gas & Electric). The Sunrise Powerlink is not for San Diego, will not carry any electricity for San Diego, and will not carry any renewable energy for San Diego.
The only "energy" Sempra/SDG&E's Sunrise Powerlink 500KV transmission line will deliver to San Diego?...WILDFIRES and skyrocketing SDG&E utility bills!!!
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The Sunrise Powerlink is strictly a Sempra Corporation project - but, by using their own regulated public utility, SDG&E; misleading, deceiving and false information; and of course, tens of millions of dollars of ratepayer's own money for false advertising & targeted "donations" to those willing to justify a lie for a bribe, and deny justice to the innocent---Sempra's Sunrise Powerlink was approved. Based on a foundation of false information, the Sunrise Powerlink was "sold" as a necessary transmission line for San Diego's proposed "renewable energy" (all have proven to be FALSE). By using the cover of the Sempra owned utility, SDG&E - Sempra was not only able to monopolize and overcharge customers with foreign, polluting energy, but, Sempra Energy forced California ratepayers to pay for ALL infrastructure - even its Billion Dollar loser Costa Azul LNG in Mexico!!...
Sempra using SDG&E to gain unlawful market monopoly, favoritism:
Sempra's Costa Azul LNG Bad for California (written BEFORE USA - domestic LNG glut):
Bush and his Energy Policy unlawful "National Interest" designation for Sunrise Powerlink- to carry foreign LNG sourced electricity and LA monopoly: http://www.calitics.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=3496
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The $2-3 BILLION (California ratepayer's burden), Sunrise Powerlink's ONLY purpose is to carry Sempra's polluting, unneeded, expensive, loser FOREIGN natural gas (via Sempra's gas-fired electricity generating plant in Baja- Termoelectrica de Mexicali) through San Diego to the Greater Los Angeles electricity grid. Sempra's ultimate goal is to create an oppressive monopoly-- to control and manipulate the Los Angeles market. Sempra (through their own subsidiary SDG&E), has already manipulated the San Diego market with an unfair, detrimental, oppressive monopoly.
Schwarzenegger, Kenneth Lay, Bush/Cheney, Sempra, Enron, hotel room: http://www.alternet.org/story/16902
Sempra, energy crisis, Sempra's $9 BILLION heist, market manipulation:
Sempra's Costa Azul "hot gas" carries a 25% greater "pollution" burden than domestic:
The Sunrise Powerlink is Supported and Approved by a Few Politicians (all have received "donations" from Sempra/SDG&E); Semi-Political Organizations (receives money from Sempra/SDG&E- such as Chambers of Commerce, Labor Boards) as well as Subsidiaries and Affiliates of Sempra Energy. .
The Sunrise Powerlink is Opposed by the People of San Diego; Proven Experts on Energy; All Respected Environmental Organizations; Renewable Energy Advocates, Consumer Groups, Scientists/Scholars in the fields of Economics, Environment and Energy.
http://truthsayer-esther.blogspot.com/p/opponents-of-sunrise-powerlink-list-and.html
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Even Sempra and SDG&E's most prized possession: Ex-Governor Schwarzenegger, admitted " We do not need the Sunrise Powerlink transmission lines."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zolMVpgEgts&sns=fb
http://ramonasentinel.com/printFriendly.cfm?articleID=18459
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WHO SHOULD WE BELIEVE? SEMPRA ENERGY/SDG&E ?- GUILTY OF MARKET MANIPULATION OF NATURAL GAS - ARTIFICIAL CONGESTION ON SAN DIEGO'S EXISTING POWERLINES (FAKE BLACKOUTS), PRICE GOUGING, PRICE FIXING, FRAUD, BRIBERY, USING RATEPAYERS MONEY FOR PERSONAL "PALACES", FATAL WILDFIRES, LYING, MISLEADING, MISREPRESENTATION, OMISSION, HARASSMENT, INTIMIDATION...OVER $800 MILLION IN FINES FOR CRIMES...?
SEMPRA'S MASTER PLAN OF LNG DOMINATION FAILS
1. Gold, R. (2009, February 8). Bad call. Wall Street Journal. Retrieved May 4, 2009, from http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123378467642449289.html.
SEMPRA TAMPERED / INTERFERED IN BAJA'S 2007 ELECTION
Sempra's internal document contains strategic actions to intervene in the 2007 BAJA elections THESE ACTIONS ARE IN DIRECT VIOLATION OF THE MEXICAN CONSTITUTION AND ITS LAWS! Sempra's 2007 Strategies to achieve approval for installation of the illegal, dangerous Costa Azul Terminal in Ensenada: Target, Corrupt, Silence and Remove every person, political-government, social, cultural, media, environmental--IMPEDIMENT. This marketing plan is reprehensible - Sempra's Costa Azul Terminal was so bad, and such an environmental, public health and safety disaster - that Sempra had to infiltrate and corrupt government officials, deceive the public and media with promises of jobs and money, and refuse (as well as bribe) to comply with any environmental, cultural, archeological, safety regulations and laws in Mexico.
This "trademark" Sempra strategy was also used in the United States, especially California, to force approval of expensive, polluting, unneeded, destructive projects like the Sunrise Powerlink in San Diego county- a 500KV 120 mile transmission line that Sempra hopes to connect to their loser Costa Azul LNG electricity source in Mexicali, ultimately for Los Angeles...costing $BILLIONS -all at ratepayers and US taxpayers expense.
Sempra's 2007 Official Marketing Strategy: http://es.scribd.com/doc/51092594/Estrategia-Sempra-2007
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SEMPRA'S IMPORTED COSTA AZUL NATURAL GAS THAT NOBODY WANTS OR NEEDS
Sempra now sits on imported natural gas, stored in Ensenada, shipped from countries without any care to the indigenous people or their environment...that NOBODY wants! Rather than save the baby and throw out the bathwater -- Sempra chose unwisely -- Sempra saved the dirty bathwater: imported LNG - and threw out the baby - all the innocent people and their environments of California, Baja, Russia, New Guinea and beyond.
http://www.pacificenvironment.org/article.php?id=3034 
THE PEOPLE FORCED TO PAY FOR SEMPRA'S STUPID MISTAKES
In the meantime, Sempra was able to conspire with the CPUC and "reversed the flow" of all San Diego's domestic-sourced natural gas lines and switched over to Sempra's Costa Azul LNG. "Reversing the flow" cost California ratepayers ..$200 MILLION. Sempra also had the CPUC authorize offloading the ENTIRE cost (raising the ratebase) of Costa Azul-terminals, ports, storage, pipelines, Termoelectrica de Mexicali...to California ratepayers...at least $900 MILLION. Sempra and the CPUC charge US taxpayers (through the US Export Credit Agency) the entire cost of extracting this unneeded natural gas from Russia and Indonesia.
http://www.energybulletin.net/print/5319http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ad7gyYHzRi8UJ%3Awww.pacificenvironment.org%2Fdownloads%2FLNG+-+Oregon.ppt+people+united+against+sempra+energy+lng+exports&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
SEMPRA/SDG&E & THE CPUC FORCE EXPENSIVE IMPORTED COSTA AZUL LNG ON SAN DIEGO
Sempra and the CPUC also connected San Diego's 500KV Southwest Powerline to Sempra's Termoelectrica de Mexicali (natural gas fired electricity generating plant). This plant receives all of its natural gas from Costa Azul imported LNG..and one of the reasons why San Diego ratepayers (SDG&E) pay some of the highest rates in the country. Sempra/SDG&E's environmental and economic disaster, the Sunrise Powerlink, a 500KV transmission line would also connect to Sempra's Costa Azul electricity sources in Mexicali (Baja) - and would ultimately connect to Sempra's preferred Los Angeles market (SDG&E & Sempra claim to the media that the Powerlink is for San Diego (SDG&E customers)...an absolute lie!) http://www.basinandrangewatch.org/sunrise_powerlink_history.pdf
http://www.energybulletin.net/print/5319
SEMPRA/SDG&E LIES TO THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE PURPOSE OF SUNRISE POWERLINK
Sempra and their imported Costa Azul LNG is considered a loser, a has been, an also ran. Sempra's greatest supporter is...well, Sempra, using ratepayer's money, Sempra has flooded San Diego's media with "donations", "perks", advertising in exchange for touting the Sunrise Powerlink as "green, renewable energy" (WHICH IT IS NOT BY ANY MEANS)..This is Sempra's last and only chance of forcing the Sunrise Powerlink (carrying Costa Azul sourced electricity) through San Diego's East County, at ratepayers expense, ultimately to infect Los Angeles..Because nobody wants expensive, polluting, unAmerican, imported Costa Azul LNG. In actuality, there is not one "renewable energy" project claimed by Sempra or SDG&E that truly is dependent on the construction and operation of the Sunrise Powerlink - not one! Sempra has to make up the phony "green energy" lie -otherwise, Sempra and the Sunrise Powerlink would have been kicked to the curb long ago - as it should have been!
SEMPRA/SDG&E LIES TO THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE PURPOSE OF SUNRISE POWERLINK
1. Gold, R. (2009, February 8). Bad call. Wall Street Journal. Retrieved May 4, 2009, from http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123378467642449289.html.
http://www.basinandrangewatch.org/sunrise_powerlink_history.pdf
SEMPRA AND SDG&E LIES TO THE PUBLIC THAT THE SUNRISE POWERLINK IS NEEDED TO MEET SDG&E's "RENEWABLE ENERGY PORTFOLIO"
SUNRISE POWERLINK WILL CAUSE UTILITY BILLS TO SKYROCKET FOR 40 YEARS
What the public does not know - is that the Sunrise Powerlink (basically Sempra's only and last chance to sell this bad, imported LNG), will cost California plenty...rates will skyrocket, not just for the $2-3 BILLION cost that ratepayers will be forced to pay for construction of this firestarting dinosaur - but Sempra's imported (Russia, Indonesia), LNG costs much more and carries a 25% greater greenhouse gas burden than San Diego's regular domestic supply, that San Diego ratepayers used to enjoy...before Sempra, SDG&E and the CPUC. " The Powerlink will cost ratepayers approximately $10 BILLION over 40 years. This money will be made regardless of whether a single kilowatt hour of electricity EVER moves across the line" from Dianne Jacob, San Diego County Supervisor, 2nd District. SDG&E has filed a request with the CPUC for a $1.8 BILLION rate hike against its San Diego customers - and this would be on top of the major rate hikes expected for the Powerlink!
http://www.diannejacob.com/journal11winter.pdf
http://www.ucan.org/energy/electricity/general_rate_case_2012/general_rate_case_2011
CALIFORNIA & SAN DIEGO ECONOMIES SUFFER AS SEMPRA FORCES (UNNEEDED-POLLUTING-EXPENSIVE- FOREIGN) COSTA AZUL LNG VIA SUNRISE POWERLINK TO LOS ANGELES MARKETS
http://www.diannejacob.com/journal11winter.pdf
http://www.ucan.org/energy/electricity/general_rate_case_2012/general_rate_case_2011
CALIFORNIA & SAN DIEGO ECONOMIES SUFFER AS SEMPRA FORCES (UNNEEDED-POLLUTING-EXPENSIVE- FOREIGN) COSTA AZUL LNG VIA SUNRISE POWERLINK TO LOS ANGELES MARKETS
As California's economy continues to suffer, many people losing their jobs, cut-backs to all social services, education, health, foreclosures, homelessness, US service veterans...And here comes Sempra and SDG&E, an unchecked monopoly, willing to burden struggling, hard-working people with an expensive foreign lie that will be devastating to California's economy and cost innocent people (ratepayers - US taxpayers) for the next 40 years...just for the greed and ignorance of one corporation!
RUBEN BARRILLO, SAN DIEGO'S REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PRESIDENT, WILL FOREVER REGRET THE LETTER "HE" (obviously dictated by SDG& E/ Sempra) WROTE TO THE SAN DIEGO TRIBUNE:
Letter written to SignOn OpEd, March 13, 2011 -- We have taken the liberty to translate his letter and reveal the TRUTH - line by line...
The Powerlink is important to local economy...FALSE- IT WILL RAISE ALL OUR RATES AT LEAST 20% some say as much as 35% - devastating to our economy!
I strongly support SDG&E’s construction of the Sunrise Powerlink. It is vital to transfer reliable, renewable energy to San Diego....FALSE-- THE LINE IS NOT EVEN FOR SAN DIEGO IT'S FOR LOS ANGELES- THE LINE WILL CARRY UNRELIABLE IMPORTED, POLLUTING LNG STORED IN BAJA - EXTRACTED AND SHIPPED FROM RUSSIA & INDONESIA.
The demonstrators picketing at Sempra headquarters March 8 do not speak for all San Diegans....TRUE --THE DEMONSTRATORS SPEAK FOR ALL PEOPLE WHO HAVE NOT RECEIVED HUGE "DONATIONS" NOR HAVE TIES TO SDG&E. such as Ruben Barrillo, President, Regional San Diego Chamber of Commerce
To keep our economy competitive and to create jobs, ...FALSE - THE POWERLINK WILL DEVASTATE SAN DIEGO ECONOMY WITH SKYROCKETING SDG&E UTILITY BILLS - FEWER THAN 500 CONTRACT JOBS FOR LESS THAN 2 YEARS- MOST EMPLOYEES ARE SHIPPED TO SAN DIEGO FROM OUT OF TOWN.
we need to keep the power flowing -- FALSE --THERE IS MORE THAN ENOUGH CAPACITY ON OUR EXISTING SOUTHWEST POWERLINE - SAN DIEGO USAGE IS DROPPING, IMPORTED LNG IS NOT NEEDED IN THE USA.
To maintain our quality of life, we need to make sure the lights come on when we flip the switch. FALSE- -WE ARE ALREADY HOOKED UP TO SEMPRA'S EXPENSIVE POLLUTING UNRELIABLE FOREIGN COSTA AZUL LNG..THAT'S ONE REASON WHY WE PAY THE HIGHEST RATES IN THE COUNTRY (San Diego's Southwest Powerline - all San Diego natural gas pipelines)
As a society, we must take proactive steps to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and cut greenhouse gas emissions by using more energy from clean, green sources. FALSE-- TO ALLOW SUNRISE POWERLINK WOULD INCREASE GREENHOUSE GAS (SEMPRA'S IMPORTED LNG CARRIES 25% HIGHER GHG THAN OUR DOMESTIC LNG) AND MAINTAIN SAN DIEGO'S AND LOS ANGELES DEPENDENCE ON FOSSIL FUELS - SEMPRA'S FOREIGN NATURAL GAS FROM COSTA AZUL . (I don't think SDG&E knows that natural gas IS a fossil fuel)
We need such projects to ensure we leave future generations with a healthy economy and environment. FALSE-- FUTURE GENERATIONS WILL STILL BE PAYING SDG&E AND SEMPRA 40 YEARS FROM NOW- THE POLLUTING SOURCES WILL COMPOUND GLOBAL WARMING - FUTURE GENERATIONS WILL NEVER SEE THE BEAUTY, WILDLIFE, HABITATS, WATER, THAT SDG&E WOULD PERMANENTLY DESTROY - AT OUR EXPENSE!
Ruben Barrales, President & CEO, San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce -SIGNIFICANT LONG TERM TIES TO SDG&E - RECEIVES GENEROUS DONATIONS FROM SDG&E (THE DONATION MONEY COMES FROM SDG&E RATEPAYERS).
SEMPRA'S COSTA AZUL LNG-- IT'S SO 2005! A TERRIBLE INVESTMENT TO DUMP ON CALIFORNIA - WITH NO FUTURE...AT ALL
Sempra's Costa Azul LNG is not needed in California and there is no future for Sempra's Costa Azul LNG. "USA's natural gas production has rendered imported LNG a redundant, obsolete, and more expensive version of what North America already has plenty of. The U.S. Department of Energy concluded that total natural gas imports would shrink from 16% in 2007 to a mere 3% by 2030, a scenario that will render all of North America's (including Sempra's Costa Azul LNG) terminals to mothball status."
Sempra's imported Costa Azul LNG = prognosis is GRIM
From Pacific Environment:
http://www.pacificenvironment.org/article.php?id=3034
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123378467642449289.html.
"As a result, the same agencies and publications that once trumpeted LNG as a necessary salve “to keep the lights on” in California and in North America are now doubling back on themselves, and concluding the opposite. According to a joint... presentation of the California Public Utilities Commission and the California Energy Commission in December 2008, “significant deliveries” to Costa Azul are unlikely in the near term." ..." Wall Street Journal reported that the conventional wisdom on the need for LNG “blew it,” and that “companies that bought into the earlier vision (Sempra), of soaring imports and strings of new terminals went from being Wall Street darlings to also-rans.”.. from 2009 Pacific Environment
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123378467642449289.html.
"As a result, the same agencies and publications that once trumpeted LNG as a necessary salve “to keep the lights on” in California and in North America are now doubling back on themselves, and concluding the opposite. According to a joint... presentation of the California Public Utilities Commission and the California Energy Commission in December 2008, “significant deliveries” to Costa Azul are unlikely in the near term." ..." Wall Street Journal reported that the conventional wisdom on the need for LNG “blew it,” and that “companies that bought into the earlier vision (Sempra), of soaring imports and strings of new terminals went from being Wall Street darlings to also-rans.”.. from 2009 Pacific Environment
http://www.pacificenvironment.org/article.php?id=3034
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123378467642449289.html.
HOW DID THIS UNWANTED, IMPORTED LNG NIGHTMARE START?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123378467642449289.html.
HOW DID THIS UNWANTED, IMPORTED LNG NIGHTMARE START?
= SEMPRA ENERGY - SDG&E
Much of the hype around the need for LNG came in the wake of the 2000–2001 energy crisis (Sempra Energy), when rampant speculation and manipulation (Sempra Energy) led to wild price spikes for electricity and natural gas, especially in California (Sempra Energy). Some in the LNG industry (Sempra Energy) seized upon this to begin the myth that the price spikes were caused by a shortage of natural gas (Sempra Energy /SDG&E).
*** Since this 2009 article, the Bradwood Oregon LNG project that would have received Costa Azul LNG has "died". Investors withdrew $100 MILLION and the project has been cancelled permanently.
NOTES From Pacific Environment:
1. Gold, R. (2009, February 8). Bad call. Wall Street Journal. Retrieved May 4, 2009, from http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123378467642449289.html.
Feb 10, 2011- Additionally, Sempra Energy (SRE) Chairman and CEO Donald E Felsinger sells 150,000 Sempra Shares @ $53.80 per share. ($8 million)
Sempra "re-exports" LNG out of their Energia Costa Azul plant-- there is not enough end users (takers) in the well-stocked Western United States ..1/7/2011 from Reuters:
Sempra reduces output from their Termoelectrica Mexicali plant...12/12/10 from Bloomberg:
SEMPRA'S USES THE SAME OLD- TIRED- USED- "RENEWABLE ENERGY" LIE FROM THE SOUTHWEST POWERLINE
In fact, 25 years ago, SDG&E swore that construction of San Diego's Southwest Powerline was necessary for all their "renewable energy" projects...the number of renewable projects SDG&E/Sempra built so far for the Southwest Transmission line - ZERO.
"And far from being reliable, the Southwest Powerlink has gone down twice since 2003, a victim of massive wildfires in San Diego County. SDG&E’s response to the Southwest Powerlink’s failures? Build more of the same. But a coalition of community and consumer groups, environmental organizations, and energy experts believes the time is right to break the links chaining us to a centralized energy system and move forward to a decentralized, secure, renewable energy future"...from Basin and Range Watch Org.
http://www.basinandrangewatch.org/sunrise_powerlink_history.pdf
MEXICAN FEDERAL DEPUTIES CRITICIZE THE UNLAWFUL CONSTRUCTION OF SEMPRA'S COSTA AZUL LNG TERMINAL. THEY THREATEN TO CLOSE DOWN SEMPRA IF THE CASE IS CLARIFIED."
March 30, 2011 - Sempra's reaction is hostile and defensive. Sempra's standard practice of influence peddling and bribery-to hide the truth - ARE NOW WORTHLESS. Violations have been documented by the MNC and government officials in Baja California, including former PAN governor Eugenio Elorduy. The lawmakers warned will not reverse the determination to close the company if confirmed anomalies have been identified and documented in the past three months.
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=es&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jornada.unam.mx%2F2011%2F03%2F30%2Findex.php%3Fsection%3Dpolitica%26article%3D016n1pol
Voting at the MEXICAN Congress of the Union --Re: SEMPRA'S Costa Azul 259 votes for the CLOSURE of COSTA AZUL and support for the Mayor of Ensenada, 95 against and 5 abstentions.
MEXICAN FEDERAL DEPUTIES CRITICIZE THE UNLAWFUL CONSTRUCTION OF SEMPRA'S COSTA AZUL LNG TERMINAL. THEY THREATEN TO CLOSE DOWN SEMPRA IF THE CASE IS CLARIFIED."
March 30, 2011 - Sempra's reaction is hostile and defensive. Sempra's standard practice of influence peddling and bribery-to hide the truth - ARE NOW WORTHLESS. Violations have been documented by the MNC and government officials in Baja California, including former PAN governor Eugenio Elorduy. The lawmakers warned will not reverse the determination to close the company if confirmed anomalies have been identified and documented in the past three months.
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=es&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jornada.unam.mx%2F2011%2F03%2F30%2Findex.php%3Fsection%3Dpolitica%26article%3D016n1pol
Voting at the MEXICAN Congress of the Union --Re: SEMPRA'S Costa Azul 259 votes for the CLOSURE of COSTA AZUL and support for the Mayor of Ensenada, 95 against and 5 abstentions.
To clarify..The mayor of Ensenada recently closed down Sempra's Costa Azul...due to numerous unlawful actions by Sempra, the most important reason was to PROTECT the people of Ensenada, since Sempra did not care about the extremely dangerous, volatile NATURAL GAS time bombs they built without permits, environmental reports or buffer zones. Sempra, bribes in hand, somehow managed to get the Mexican Federal government to "enforce" re-opening the Costa Azul plant; which they did -- by military force. This vote by Mexican Congress rightfully sides with the Ensenada Mayor and his decision to protect the people and the environment over some "foreign" company like Sempra. Never again will Sempra be able to hide behind Mexican government...the vote means that Sempra cannot create a house-divided in Mexico EVER AGAIN! One can only hope and pray that our USA courts and government are this honorable and thoughtful to the people and the environment they are supposed to serve!
Sempra Energy has Dirty Hands and Dirty Energy -- From Interfor, Inc.:
From 2005 Investigation: "The private intelligence agency - Interfor, based in New York, prepared a confidential report, at the request of Marathon Oil, in order to make a "discreet investigation" including information about links and connections of the former governor of Baja California, Eugenio Elorduy with Sempra Energy."
This document was distributed on the internet by Rudy Michelon, a former employee of Sempra who was fired for exposing Sempra's bribes to Mexican officials for Costa Azul LNG and for using San Diego ratepayer's money to build Sempra CEO Felsinger a decadent $17 MILLION resort for himself in Ensenada. This 2005 investigation, reveals Sempra Energy's ties to people within drug cartels, payoffs to Baja officials in the Cayman Islands and Swiss banks-- to "win" the Costa Azul project, as well as push competition out. Now we see the same mafia-style actions from Sempra/SDG&E as they attempt to force (illegal permitting, bribery, payoffs, fraud etc) the Sunrise Powerlink in San Diego to use Costa Azul LNG via Sempra's Termoelectrica de Mexicali electricity generating plant.
The actual Interfor Inc. document: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17737696/300%20res.pdf
In-depth review of Interfor document by "Ignacio" El Vigia: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?saved&¬e_id=183890181646112
SEMPRA VS RUDY MICHELON: $20 MILLION CASA AZUL RESORT FOR SEMPRA CEO FELSINGER & CRONIES @ SDG&E's ratepayers expense! = $65K bar, $20K dining room table, $25K for a ceiling lamp, $400K for matching chairs ++..Sempra's Casa Azul expenses were sent to Sempra Corporate for payment...Over 1/2 the money Sempra receives as income IS SKIMMED FROM SAN DIEGO GAS & ELECTRIC (its subsidiary) RATEPAYERS. Question: What did Rudy Michelon do that was against Sempra ? Answer: Rudy Michelon merely told the truth.
This is what happens when US citizens are forced by politicians and the CPUC to "hire" a criminal- (Sempra/SDG&E), with a long history of crimes against the people, the government and the environment.
Despite Sempra's defensive, derogatory remarks- Rudy Michelon is a courageous, honest and noble man - with a global following of supporters and friends.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPx4fiGpjy4&feature=related
Feb 12, 2011 ENSENADA MAYOR ORDERS CLOSURE OF SEMPRA'S ENERGIA COSTA AZUL LNG : SEMPRA VS RUDY MICHELON: $20 MILLION CASA AZUL RESORT FOR SEMPRA CEO FELSINGER & CRONIES @ SDG&E's ratepayers expense! = $65K bar, $20K dining room table, $25K for a ceiling lamp, $400K for matching chairs ++..Sempra's Casa Azul expenses were sent to Sempra Corporate for payment...Over 1/2 the money Sempra receives as income IS SKIMMED FROM SAN DIEGO GAS & ELECTRIC (its subsidiary) RATEPAYERS. Question: What did Rudy Michelon do that was against Sempra ? Answer: Rudy Michelon merely told the truth.
This is what happens when US citizens are forced by politicians and the CPUC to "hire" a criminal- (Sempra/SDG&E), with a long history of crimes against the people, the government and the environment.
Despite Sempra's defensive, derogatory remarks- Rudy Michelon is a courageous, honest and noble man - with a global following of supporters and friends.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPx4fiGpjy4&feature=related
Among the irregularities found is the lack of legal permission for land use, lack of an emergency center, civil engineering drawings and mechanical work, and the absence of risk insurance. They also noted the lack of a thermal buffer zone, the lack of a map of roads, pipelines and other infrastructure in the area of the plant.
Feb 8, 2011- The US ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, The SEC, and the FBI HAVE BEGUN TO BUILD CASES AGAINST SEMPRA ENERGY
Charges against Sempra include BRIBERY and using San Diego ratepayer's money to build Sempra's "palace"- Casa Azul (The news called it "a posh, personal playground just for the use of the Sempra CEO and his cronies); illegally evicting Sanchez Ritchie from his own property for the Energia Costa Azul LNG- with force. Other Sempra criminal charges include: falsely stating assets to increase earnings, bribing Mexican officials for permits to build Energia Costa Azul LNG, ignoring Baja's environmental and public safety laws ..no buffer zone around the dangerous LNG terminal and wrongful termination of honest employee, Mr. Rudy Michelon.
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Pigs from "Animal Farm" = Sempra/ SDG&E |
U.S. Congressman (Bob Filner) noted that they have initiated a comprehensive campaign to prevent the citizens of California from consuming electricity produced in Mexico by Sempra Energy,-- which hurts the environment on both sides of the border ....from La Jornada, Roberto Garduño and Enrique Méndez http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=es&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jornada.unam.mx%2F2011%2F02%2F10%2Findex.php%3Fsection%3Dpolitica%26article%3D016n1pol
WHICH IS OUR GREATEST CONCERN ?- OUR ENVIRONMENT, OUR RENEWABLE ENERGY LEGACY, PUBLIC HEALTH & SAFETY, PRESERVATION OF OUR WILDLANDS & WILDLIFE, ECONOMIC FAIRNESS TO THE PEOPLE, DISABLING OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN ENERGY ------------ OR -------------FACELESS, NAMELESS, UNCARING SEMPRA & SDG&E SHAREHOLDERS??
NOTHING GOOD - CAN EVER BE CREATED FROM LIES DECEIT AND GREED.
