[Sustain] Combustion Turbines: Dept. Of Water Resources Threat & Rescission

[Eric Brooks]

Hi all,

See attached both the Dept. of Water Resources (DWR) threat letter that
was used to justify the Oct 30 Board vote to rush the approval of the
JPower Combustion Turbine project; along with the subsequent DWR letter
that rescinded that original threat.

Note especially that DWR's original threat letter was produced only one
week before the vote on the resolution; a resolution which proponents
had already attempted (and failed) to similarly fast track in July,
three months before DWR drafted the letter.

Clearly DWR's week-before-the-vote maneuver was mere calculated
political theater designed to help the SFPUC staff railroad the Board
into a bad policy decision, to rubber stamp an unacceptable, no-bid,
sole source contract with JPower, when we should instead take more time
and send a legitimate project out for proper bids, which will produce
much less or even no pollution when compared to the JPower deal.

Ive also attached the terms of the proposed deal that the Mayor is
crafting with Mirant so you can look it over. Note (in section 2-e) that
it still allows Mirant to seek another 2 year extension on its water
pollution permit to run the big Potrero natural gas boiler; which
basically means that they are assuming the CTs won't be in place for
another two years...

cheers

Eric Brooks
Campaign Coordinator
Our City
415-756-8844
http://our-city.org



-- 
"I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate
themselves." – Che Guevara

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