Sign Petition to Stop Big Solar/Windmill in the California Desert

Help! Sign the petition to stop the "Gold Rush Mentality" desecration of the Colorado River Indian Intaglios, a sacred and important archaeological site located in the California Desert near Blythe, California -

http://www.petitiononline.com/savekoko/petition.html

Then, PLEASE pass this petition along to ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS, online and otherwise!! TIME IS PASSING QUICKLY - the Gold Rush is raging, the big utility companies are sealing-the-deals-with-the-state, and other, massive solar-windmill facilties are lined up to scrape and destroy the face in ugly, unwanted surgeries already scheduled to be knifed across vast tracts of the Mojave and other California deserts!!!

To be blunt: we need to act NOW!

Why is the big-solar-faciilty-in-the-desert-thing such a big deal?

There are so many things wrong with this picture - including the fact that these solar facilities take up mega-water.....as most of you know, water availability is a MAJOR problem throughout the desert, and the southwest. Not to mention that the CA desert, second in biodiversity of life - including the beloved icons of our region, the endangered Desert Tortoise and the Joshua Tree - stand to take another horrid ecologic hit & run that they may not recover from. Not to mention...who stands to profit in this LAND AND CULTURE RAPE? The big corporations - PG & E....Edison....not us, folks! Not the defenseless desert or its myriad, magical forms of animal and plant and geologic life.....

WE CAN AND MUST DO THIS BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!!! Do you like the Grand Canyon? Who doesn't? Did you know that...back in the 60's, grassroots activists + the Sierra Club got together and managed to stop plans to install a series of dams in the Grand Canyon - yes, that's right, and one dam site even got drilled - and preserve this ancient and abiding place of magic and beauty for generations to come.

We, on facebook, can do this, too. We have the Internet at our fingertips, so please help those of us in the California Desert who are trying to pass the word along before it is too late!!!

Feel free to sign or not - but at least, before you make up your mind, take a moment to learn just a little bit about what is at stake with the massive solar-windmill-corporate-land grab, and what's going down faster than a "speeding bullet" in our Mojave Desert. Just so you are informed.

To learn more about the Intaglios, visit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blythe_Intaglios

ACT NOW!! The California Energy Commission has already approved legislation that allows for construction - desecration - to begin at the Blythe Intalgio Site, as well as at Ivanpah, CA - the latter is planned to be the largest solar panel facility in the world and will destroy thousands of untouched acres of our sacred and necessary California Desert.

After you sign this petition, please visit the following site for information on the pending Ivanpah, CA (located near the stateline between California-Nevada) solar installation.

Information at Ivanpah, CA solar facility - note that "PG & E" and other utility conglomerates are jumping on the "investment" bandwagon...

http://sunpluggers.com/news/as-decisions-near-on-more-solar-power-plants-opponents-urge-alternatives-01020

http://californiasolarinstallation.com/archives/tag/brightsource

THERE IS AN EXCELLENT GROUP CALLED
SOLAR DONE RIGHT
who are working feverishly to put a stop to the Gold Rush on public desert lands. Contact them for more information.

http://solardoneright.org/

I plan to visit the Blythe Intaglio site very soon, within the next two weeks, and speak directly with a Colorado River area Native American elder who is intimately familiar with the stories behind the Intaglios, and learn more, which I will share with you on this blog as the stories unfold. I will also take more pictures and post on my blog soon. Keep the Faith!

Thank You!
Ruth Nolan
Mojave Desert Native.....and advocate
editor, No Place for a Puritan: the literature of California's deserts (Heyday Books, 2009)