According to Granite Construction operations manager Gary Johnson, Granite Construction has spent $10 million dollars to date on their intended Liberty Quarry project.   Their goal is to create one of the largest open pit gravel mining operations in the United States, less than a mile from the City of Temecula, on land sacred to the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians, at the source of the last wild river, and the last wildlife corridor in Southern California.  If you think this is a bad idea fraught with even more objections, you are not alone.

Not satisfied with the “NO” from over 30,000 signatures from residents, 159 area physicians, 467 local businesses, and now a pending bi-partisan article of legislation (AB 742) written to block this specific project from erasing a sacred site,

Granite Construction continues to seek to have over six years of documented “NO QUARRY” reinterpreted as “Yes.”

To accomplish this end, they have  recently hired the largest and most powerful public relations firm in Sacramento KP Public Affairs (KA-POW.com) to prevent the city of Temecula and its residents from preserving their land.

Within polite societies in most parts of the world, young adults are taught that when it comes to dating, “NO” means “NO.”  Could it be that an 89 year-old corporation may need to update its ethics?  What part of “NO” does Granite Construction not understand when it comes to courting Mother Earth?

Granite Construction has hired Ka-Pow.com to re-engineer “NO” to , “YES, please!.”  As of today all those opposed to the intended taking of the land by force of finance need to redouble their efforts to prevent this action.

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“California has created the most stringent environmental regulations in the world. For the last 20 years, KP has been involved in nearly every major environmental law and regulatory effort, including AB 32 implementation and greenhouse gas regulations, California’s Green Chemistry Initiative and “Safer Substitutes” regulations, Brownfield and site cleanup standards, storm water policy and regulations and groundwater monitoring and protection programs. We also work on air quality issues, fuel regulations, energy efficiency standards and Proposition 65 listings and regulations.” – Ka-Pow.com website