The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, (LADWP) is trying to drive a path directly through the California Desert. This path is a 500-Killowatt transmission line project along a new energy corridor. The proposed path would begin at the Salten Sea, traverse across the Big Morongo Canyon Preserve, cut through the Pioneer Mountains Preserve, continue north over the town of Oak Glen, devastating important biological habitat and pristine wilderness and the communities in its path.

Opposition to the Green Path has been mounted by the Morongo Basin, both San Bernardino and Riverside County Boards of Supervisors, The Coachella Valley Association of Governments and cities and communities along the proposed route. The town of Oak Glen and the California Desert Coalition have both paid for billboards on Interstate 10 which protest the Green Path.

The California Desert Coalition continues to call for LADWP to work with southern California Edison to utilize the existing 1-10 energy corridor, and to eliminate their plans to run a new energy corridor through the high desert.

Opposition to the proposed path should be sent to the LADWP, and to U.S. Representative Jerry Lewis.

Source: California Desert Coalition web site.