SEMPRA'S GREATER LOS ANGELES ELECTRICAL GRID MONOPOLY + FOREIGN ENERGY DEPENDENCE= SUNRISE POWERLINK 500KV- TERMOELECTRICA DE MEXICALI - NATURAL GAS PIPELINES - ENERGIA COSTA AZUL LNG TERMINAL (ENSENADA) - LNG SHIPPING TANKERS - SAKHALIN, RUSSIA, NEW GUINEA
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 Chamber of Commerce, Labor Boards); 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.htmlWHO 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...?
CHENEY BUSH AUTHORIZE SEMPRA'S SUNRISE POWERLINK 500 KV AS "IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST" (PRESIDENTIAL PERMIT), TO ALLOW SEMPRA 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 ENERGY - (SEMPRA'S NATURAL GAS FROM RUSSIA AND INDONESIA- SHIPPED & STORED IN ENSENADA, BAJA).
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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 - to monopolize the Los Angeles grid.
Because of Sempra and the Bush Administration's dubious love affair -Sempra's foreign Costa Azul LNG, and Sempra & SDG&E's Sunrise Powerlink 500KV was deemed of "National Interest" by "authority" of the US Energy Department (Bush/Cheney), Sempra was UNLAWFULLY allowed to seize and steal our BLM, National Forest and private land for their Sunrise Powerlink 500KV transmission line...The Sunrise Powerlink's ONLY purpose is to utilize Sempra's foreign, expensive polluting natural gas...and then to monopolize and manipulate the Greater Los Angeles electrical grid.
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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.
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!
SEMPRA'S MASTER PLAN OF LNG DOMINATION FAILS
In 1999 - 2000 Sempra's master plan was to achieve complete domination and monopolization of the natural gas market for the entire western United States. Sempra's plan fell flat on its face as USA natural gas production reached a glut - prices were cheap, and there was plenty of domestic natural gas. Additionally, speculators later determined that if anything - natural gas usage was leveling off and the need for Sempra's imported natural gas would be non-existent.
http://www.pacificenvironment.org/article.php?id=142
http://www.pacificenvironment.org/article.php?id=3034
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=2588&printsafe=1
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, targeting and corrupting politicians and judges, 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 the loser Costa Azul LNG electricity source in Mexicali...costing $BILLIONS -all at ratepayers and US taxpayers expense.
Sempra's 2007 Official Marketing Strategy: http://es.scribd.com/doc/51092594/Estrategia-Sempra-2007
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%2Fla-ch.com%2Findex.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26view%3Darticle%26id%3D7672%253Apersonal-de-sempra-energy-interviene-en-procesos-elctorales-en-baja-california%26catid%3D42%253Ageneral%26Itemid%3D62
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 US Tax Agency Credit) the entire cost of extracting this unneeded natural gas from Russia and Indonesia.
http://www.energybulletin.net/print/5319
http://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).
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!
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"
Sempra and SDG&E have whined and cried to the public that the reason they did not meet the 2011 deadline for California mandated 20% renewable energy portfolio - is the need for the construction and operation of the Sunrise Powerlink---this is an absolute lie - false - fraud. The EIR (environmental impact report) and even SDG&E VP Avery (among many others) repeatedly state that there is MORE than enough capacity on San Diego's existing Southwest Powerline. The fact is, SDG&E swore that San Diego's Southwest Powerline was needed for their "renewable energy portfolio"...the amount of "renewables" SDG&E has added to the Southwest Powerline? = ZERO. There is more than enough capacity on San Diego's Southwest Powerline for ALL of SDG&E/Sempra's alleged "renewable projects"...the Southwest Powerline is in clear view of the Sunrise Powerlink! SDG&E and Sempra's claims and cries about the need for Sunrise Powerlink makes NO SENSE!..."And if it doesn't make sense - then it's not true", Judge Judy.
http://truthsayer-esther.blogspot.com/p/we-do-not-need-sunrise-powerlink-for.html
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 (20-35%) not just for the $2-3 BILLION cost that ratepayers will be forced to pay for construction of this firestarting dinosaur - but Sempra's 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.
CALIFORNIA & SAN DIEGO ECONOMIES SUFFER AS SEMPRA FORCES (UNNEEDED-POLLUTING-EXPENSIVE- IMPORTED) 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 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!
http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/site/?q=node/8231
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 AND SHIPPED FROM SAKHALIN, 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 25% 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).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/mar/10/letters-audubon-society-bike-lanes-powerlink/
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://www.pacificenvironment.org/article.php?id=3034
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123378467642449289.html.
HOW DID THIS 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).
http://www.pacificenvironment.org/article.php?id=3034http://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%2F2003%2F03%2F04%2F022n1eco.php%3Forigen%3Deconomia.html
*** 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)
http://www.gurufocus.com/news.php?id=122090
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.
Sempra/SDG&E does not own a single original thought...Sunrise Powerlink's main selling points are exactly the same as San Diego's existing Southwest Powerlink...with the the same results...no renewable energy, and connection to polluting foreign energy sources. Twenty-five years ago, the selling points for the Southwest Powerlink were energy reliability, independence from foreign fuels, and at least a nod toward renewable geothermal energy. Unfortunately, none of those promised benefits occurred. While Southwest once carried as much as 200 megawatts of geothermal, that number is now below 50 megawatts, or less than 5% of the line’s capacity. Today, the Southwest Powerline carries power from (surprise), Sempra's foreign natural gas electricity generating plant in Baja (Mexicali - Termoelectrica de Mexicali), This foreign, unregulated natural gas is extracted from foreign countries such as Indonesia and Sakhalin, Russia in partnership with the criminal BP-- and shipped to Sempra's Costa Azul regasification plants in Ensenada.
"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
