Save our Historic Community
Support only ethical green energy development
Protect wildlife, Protect at-risk community
Save our Historic Community
Support only ethical green energy development
Protect wildlife, Protect at-risk community
Our future was auctioned off by our own representatives as a sacrifice zone.
Please watch around 2:35 in this video - with 500 residents in Jacumba Hot Springs, you will see how our residents' future is quickly valued at $8,000 per resident and sold to the developer.
Not Environmental
San Diego County Planning Commissioner Tommy Hough on JVR Energy Park - Supporter of green energy and community choice aggregators voting to deny the project because of concerns.
This is is simply bad, corporate development taking advantage of a small community. Please stand with us in solidarity.
With practically zero community feedback considered, the developer, a multi-billion dollar German conglomerate BayWa r.e. has targeted the only open space right next to a small, rural, and at-risk community for the largest project ever proposed in San Diego County. JVR Energy Park is a 90 MegaWatt 623-acre MEGA solar power plant that has been rushed through the Major Use Permit process and is years ahead of the average speed of a project of its size. They are hiding behind the much needed push for sustainable energy production, and using that to cloak their corporate profit first, bottomline driven plan that will devastate a historic, low-income San Diego Community, and permanently damage wildlife and ecosystems in the area.
Just like a freeway can only hold so many cars, the power lines can only hold so much power. The Sunrise and SouthWest PowerLink that run through our town have a limited capacity and there are literally thousands of Mega Watts of ethical renewable energy projects in line, hoping to take this projects place before they fill up completely. This will not effect our chances of reaching our climate goals what-so-ever.
This project is funded by San Diego Community Power.
SDCP claims to put San Diego communities and people first, and represents the cities of Encinitas, San Diego, La Mesa, Chula Vista, Imperial Beach and National City. On May 27th, the Board of Directors of SDCP signed a power purchase agreement before the developer even released their final environmental impact report, received approval for their permits and against the pleas of our community.
SDCP, which is run by City Mayors and Council Members needs to be told San Diego communities will not support sourcing unethical power that destroys other San Diego Communities.
No community has a right to destroy another in the name of their own progress.
The developer should have worked WITH our community to design a project that is harmony with our community and our renewable energy goals.
There are plenty of other renewable energy projects SDCP can support that are ethical.
Our small town does not have a loud voice, so we need your support in fighting for our future and ethical planning of this project.
Please email and call SDCP to let them know you will not support them and they should not support any projects that destroy other communities.
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Save our Historic Community
A cross roads and spiritual area for the native americans for as long as records go back, and officially founded as a San Diego community in the early 1920s, Jacumba Hot Springs is a historic town built around the healing hot spring water found in the area.
Today it is one of the lowest income communities in San Diego County. This project will completely surround this at-risk community, devastate its only economic engine that is under extensive revitalization and permanently turn a beautiful rural community and its residents into an industrialized utility for the wealthy coastal communities.
Should the green energy revolution begin by targeting low-income and at-risk communities and industrializing their neighborhoods first?
Why does our small low-income community have to be destroyed so wealthy coastal communities can say they are progressive?
Please help us say NO to this injustice.
Save our Wildlife
We need to consider the location of where we place these projects as to balance our green energy needs with protecting our dwindling wildlife. The Carrizo Gorge watershed, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, and Bureau of Land Management Special Study Area will all be negatively impacted by this project.
Big Horn Sheep, Quino Checkered Butterfly, Tri-Colored Blackbird, Golden Eagles, to name a few of the species that will be negatively and permanently impacted by this project.
The community begged the developer to work with it on a less impactful project size. This project makes Jacumba a sacrifice zone and is unethical.
This is to scale. Right next to Anza Borrego Desert State Park and Residences. Bad for Community, Bad for the Environment.
What unethical development looks like.
This project is SIX times the size of our town.
"The problem I have with the project is that is literally has its hands around the communities neck" SD Planning Commissioner Douglas Barnhart 7/9/21
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