10News says RPCC is NIMBY; our reply is that Sempra's proposed $1.4 billion Sunrise Powerline is not needed. Industry watchdog groups also doubt that Sempra will be able to convince the California Public Utilities Commission that there is a need for this project.

SDG&E and parent company Sempra Energy claim this line will carry clean renewable energy to San Diego, but these renewable power plants do not exist.

In fact, experts tell us that Sempra's real goal is to connect the line to Sempra's power plants in Mexicali, with the objective or providing power to Los Angeles. San Diego County is left to bear the scars of Sempra's greed.

RPCC is astonished that Sempra Energy thinks it is OK to place a billion watt powerline through Anza Borrego State Park, the Los Penasquitos Canyon Preserve and within 75 feet of existing homes.

Sempra Energy wants us to blindly take them at their work and pay for this project, but California's Attorney General has complained that Sempra ranks as one of the worst of the bad actors who ripped off businesses and consumers during the energy crisis. Does this sound like a company we can trust?

Channel 10, we urge you and San Diego's elected and business leaders to carefully investigate this project before supporting it.

-Harvey Payne
Rancho Penasquitos Concerned Citizens (RPCC)