To Razz: You coment about left hand/right hand was on point. As a former federal employee, I saw it all too often. Even since my retirement in 2002, I continue seeing it constantly in matters of which I have to continue dealing wih a federal agency.

Why not sell generators to Arizona?

EPA wont let BVES fire the thing up. The regulations changed while the thing was in construction and there was no grandfather clause. EPS saw fit for The Citizens of the Big Bear Valley to take it in the shorts once again. Seems to be a trend up here. BTW whos going to keep the snow off those solar panels?????

THEY FLATOUT LIED TO YOU

mountainart the sherriff and hospital had backup generators way before the electric company con jobbed the residents it serves no purpose and hasnt been used once.for critical buisness's.

Windy- this type of solar field does not endanger birds with heat- but possibly messes with their migration due to reflection. Research is still out on that. These panels generate very little heat- goes against their purpose, instead they convert solar energy into electricity. However there are many other legitimate issues with this particular site and migration interruption is just one of them!

hear-say

Trail- 400% is semi-heresay. The contractors for the project mentioned it to one of the folks at the first meeting. Probably wasn't supposed to be shared! :-)

Anyone have info on the police roadblock down at the bottom of the 38, Mentone area?

I talked with some BVEC linemen repairing a pole in front of our property a few days ago, and asked them about the project. Also mentioned the generators, and they said they have actually been used in power outage situations, but due to the inadequate gen MW to power the valley as a whole, they just power big bear "criiticalinfrastructure" like sherrifs station, and several critical business, hospital, etc . they said you can follow the isolated power grid lines from the generators to the places considered "critical".

HIB, that would correct. The locals paid for the thing to be built to end the dependency on DTH power supply. Few million dollars and it was never put on line. Just a huge paperweight now. Government right hand left hand at work.

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Hi Trail Rider. We'll be here till 4pm. I have some other info I can pass along when you get here.

Hi JoJo, I heard Tim Krantz, was going to help residents with solar project. That hopefully will be a good thing. I might stop by your store to discuss. Audrey aka TrailRider

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