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The Save the Foothills Coalition began to form in January 2008 to oppose the building of PG&E's proposed Central California Clean Energy Transmission Project, or C3ETP, anywhere in the Sierra Nevada Foothills. C3ETP will be built through 100 miles of the Sierra foothills, through Kern County and Tulare County, ending at a 40-50 acre substation in eastern Fresno County at one of three possible alternate sites. One site for the substation, undeveloped Watts Valley, is one of the most scenic foothill valleys in California. The Humphreys Station site on Pittman Hill Road is more developed and populated and will disrupt many home owners. The Blasingame site northeast of Academy, California will devastate a scenic and undeveloped area where the San Joaquin Valley meets the Sierra foothills. Please email the link to this site to your friends and click on the links below to help fight C3ETP. To Property Owners Affected by C3ETP: If you are a property owner on the C3ETP route or own property adjacent to the route, it is in your interest to contact us. If the California Public Utilities Commission approves a route for C3ETP through your property and issues a CPCN (Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity), PG&E will then have the right to take your property for this use. At that point there is little property owners can do except fight in court for more money. Those with property adjacent to the route but not on it may suffer even worse consequences. They may not even be able to collect damages because of loss of real estate value. In any case, they would have to sue PG&E to collect such damages. The only effective way to fight PG&E is as a group. Therefore, again, it is in your interest to contact Save the Foothills Coalition. At this stage there is no cost. All donations to our collective cause are voluntary. At some point we may determine that we need to amass a warchest to take legal action. At that point, if you decide to leave the coalition, you may of course do so, with no hard feelings on our part. Again, it is in your interest as a landowner on or adjacent to the route of C3ETP to contact us. You have nothing to lose by joining us. Joining Save the Foothills will give you a fighting chance to save your property from the C3ETP invasion. It is also obviously in your interest to bring your neighboring property owners into this coalition. So please send or give them our contact information. The greater our numbers, the better our chance of preventing PG&E from hurting the foothills and taking our land and negatively affecting our property values. All we need is your name, address, phone number, email, and the general location of your property. Just use the email address at the bottom of this page. Or call 559-855-6376, 559-322-1442, 559-356-1964, or 559-332-1964. We would like to talk with you, and your information will be kept strictly confidential. To People Whose Property is Not On or Adjacent to the Route of C3ETP: Save the Foothills Coalition has many members whose property is not affected by C3ETP. Many join and support us because they love the natural surroundings of the Sierra foothills and do not want to see them degraded by yet another destructive project. Many others join because they oppose eminent domain. Whatever your reason for wanting to support us and giving your name and information to our cause, we welcome your support and thank you for it. How you can help prevent C3ETP being built in the Sierra foothills Questions? Email them to me at wattsvalleypreservation@gmail.com | ||||
