Sulphur Springs Valley Electric Cooperative

March 19, 2010—Arizona—Our utility - Sulphur Springs Valley Electric Cooperative (SSVEC) has organized a Full Out Assault on one of the Rural Communities it serves.

This area is the place Red River, Tombstone, Oklahoma, and countless movies have been filmed! SSVEC wants to put a 69kV Power Line Corridor right through the middle of this pristene grassland and the largest Historic Mexican Land Grant in the United States.

They have been spending hundreds of thousands of dollars fighting this community, rather then work out a solution that might meet everyone's needs. They are threatening the Arizona Corporation Commission with law suits if they do not give them permission to put in this line, as well as threatening the citizens that are fighting it, calling them opponents.

This community has a 7kV line that serves the area now, a study shows the area will only need one more megawatt by 2019 and 2 more by 2029, and they are wanting to bring in 60,0000 more watts - What's UP?!!!!!

Is there anyone out there that can help us?

We have a hearing on March 24 and 25 in Tucson Arizona, at the ACC Hearing room 222. SSVEC has asked for a full day of public hearings so their employees can come and testify at call to public. IS THIS EHTICAL???

We have hundreds of kw being installed in our area of renewable energy. We have alternatives from the Feasibility Study that will solve any near term power needs. This Utility is acting as though we are a bunch of dummies that only their attorney can deal with, at our expense!!

I hope this is not our last cry for help to the Universe. Is there anyone out there who can you help us??

• Here is the ACC site for this : Docket # E-01575A-09-0453

• https://edocket.azcc.gov/ExternalSearch.aspx?id=15884

Please contact Gail Getzwiller Mountain Empire Energy Project MEEP www.meepnow.org or call 520-455-5020

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Letter to Arizona Corporation Commission

Today is March 18, 2010 exactly 9 months since the Decision telling SSVEC to stop working on the proposed 69kV Power Line Corridor. Once again our high desert fragile grassland is being threatened by Sulphur Springs Valley Electric Cooperative. READ THE REST OF THE LETTER

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