Guenoc Valley Project makes sense for Lake County

Lake County Board of Supervisors… Listen Up:

You have done a good job and you have used common sense. There is no way the State of California and their challenge to your EIR should count in any way shape or form. You did the right thing by approving that project. Our Attorney General Becerra who gave the big speech in the Lake County Record Bee about the plant society and their law suit makes no common sense. Most of what he said was hogwash in my opinion because it was missing a lot of facts. Lake County did the right thing and the State wants control.

The facts he did not give regarding the fires in Guenoc Valley, which he did not mention, is most of those fires were started in Napa County and caused problems in Lake County. The very same way the fires started in the Mendocino forest that burned out the upper end of Upper Lake.

The fires started in Mendocino County came up right through Cobb Mountain and burned all the way to Keck Road in Lakeport right up to Ed Mansell’s property; anything past that point and the City of Lakeport would not be here today.

In the olden days when the steam wells were operating originally there were mud trucks hauling to this area from the wells 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Those same trucks were coming to Kelseyville, passing Cold Creek Road. Lake County has had traffic on and off for years. So the Board needs to stand tough and take on the State because this is a new day for Lake County… there will be many thousands of dollars of permit fees, many many jobs for Lake County and many thousands of dollars of taxes for the County of Lake, as well as school fees, inspection fees, that will last a life time for the County as a result of the project.

So great job Board of Supervisors! You are all smart and all do your homework and are working together to do the right thing for the County of Lake as a whole. Don’t cave in, be tough and take the State of California and the environmentalists on.

I can remember when I was a kid everything was about California’s poppies, beautiful little yellow plants. I do not see them anymore and I live fine without them.

—Ron Rose, Lakeport