[Sustain] The Bay Guardian is in outer space on the peaker issue!

[Eric Brooks]

It's pretty simple really. Bruce Brugmann has this totally absurd idea 
that PG&E doesn't want the plant built because the City might use it as 
an anchor for public power, (an assumption that is highly questionable 
because of the expense of the peakers and the likelihood that they will 
put the City into deep debt amidst rising natural gas prices). But in 
Bruce's mind anything that PG&E doesn't like must be good, and so he 
sees the peakers as a public power move to oust PG&E (never mind that it 
is a totally ridiculous idea to get public power by polluting the City 
and the atmosphere). The truth is that a small 150 megawatt peaker plant 
wouldn't do a damned thing to anchor public power in the City. He is 
unable to see the issue as the very complex game that it actually is, 
and he is equally unable to get through his head that no matter what 
PG&E wants, this planet cannot handle any more fossil fuel plants.
The real reason that PG&E is opposing the peaker plant is that this 
gives them an excuse to propose their spending upwards of $500 million 
on a transmission upgrade to prevent the peakers, and this will give 
them still deeper control of our energy grid because it will make it 
cost $500 million more to take over the PG&E lines.

This is why we need to keep pushing for a renewable energy solution 
which will make both Mirant and the peakers unnecessary, -and- will 
obviate any excuse for PG&E to build new transmission lines.

asumchai at sfbayview.com wrote:
>> Eric...can you make sense of Bruce and the Bay Guardian editorial board?
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> It's as if they are in a self serving "outer space" on the Peaker issue.
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>> See attached.
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>> This communication shows clearly that we were misled by SFPUC staff and
>> that the new Peaker plant is not necessary.
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>> peace
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>> Eric Brooks
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