(Image:   View from Boulevard’s Tierra Del Sol Road of the Sierra Juarez mountain range looking across Jewel Valley and Jacumba Valley—where real people and diverse wildlife now reside. Wind turbines close to 500 feet tall have been proposed by Enel Green Power on the Tierra Del Sol ridgeline in the foreground and on the distant Sierra Juarez ridgeline in Northern Baja by SDG&E’s parent Sempra. – Bill Parsons photo)

By Roy Hales

Reprinted with permission from San Diego Loves Green

June 20, 2013 (San Diego's East County) -- The County’s Board of Supervisors are being sued for approving their  Wind Energy Ordinance & Plan Amendment last Month. The  California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) complaint was filed last week by Stephan C. Volker, of Volker Law, on behalf of two rural East County grassroots non-profit groups: Protect Our Communities Foundation (POC) & Backcountry against Dumps (BAD).

They are challenging the vote approving the Wind Energy Ordinance and Plan Amendment, which they claim “gutted”  the Boulevard Community Plan, approved by the Supervisors in August 2011, and violated two passages in the first Article of the California Constitution: