I was disturbed as several subjects were not really addressed.

1. SDG&E put a ten foot pipeline through San Diego County in 1992 to fire their plants in Mexico. They put these plants there to circumvent environmental laws of the state as well as our country ! It just didn’t “pop up” a few years ago.

2. That “northern route” was SDG&E’s best bet to supply Riverside County. It may have provided some electricity to San Diego but ultimately, it was bound for Riverside ! One might forget that area was on a building boom at that time.

3. SDG&E’s claim they are going to add wind and solar power to the grid is disingenuous at best. The line loss for this project is going to be huge ! Line loss is amount of electricity lost due to the electrical resistance of the cable. Resistance increases with distance and ambient heat.

Can you imagine what the ambient heat loss of this cable would be considering a lot of this is built over a reflective desert floor ?

4. Fire potential. You can not get around this danger. Steel towers and good maintenance will mitigate this potential.

So let’s let the experts in outside plant management like SDG&E handle it right ?

THEY ADMITTED THEY WERE NEGLIGENT IN THE MAINTENANCE AND STARTED 160 FIRES FROM 1998 TO 2008.

Penal Code 450 – 457 calls that a felony – 160 felonies where people died and were injured and property was lost that ‘enhance’ these crimes.

The San Diego District Attorney is somehow absent !

Last, but not least, San Diego County residents are going to pay for this and ultimately, there is going to be a cable connecting Mexico and Riverside County and SDG&E will be making “bucket loads” of money.