Environmental advocates are claiming victory in a two-year fight to keep an energy substation away from wildlife corridors in the stretches of open space south of San Jose known as Coyote Valley. The California Public Utilities Commission voted unanimously March 19 to allow LS Power Grid California to construct a transmission line and terminals at the existing Metcalf substation, rather than building a new site in Coyote Valley between the Santa Cruz and Diablo mountain ranges. Advocates had warned building a new power substation could become an environmental hazard and threaten wildlife. Alice Kaufman, policy and advocacy director of Green Foothills,…
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