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[Sustain] Fwd: 8/2 CPUC Action Alert
by Don Eichelberger 31 Jul '12

31 Jul '12

Come to the Thursday morning hearing in San Francisco if you can, or send a comment. Call on CPUC to issue an Order Instituting Investigation of the economic costs of continuing operation of San Onofre. For more info, go to http://www.nuclearfreecal.org/nfcnet/2012/07/cpuc-investigation-of-san-onof… -------- Original Message -------- Subject: 8/2 CPUC Action Alert Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 22:27:16 -0700 From: Roger Herried <rogerh(a)energy-net.org> To: *There's a lot more resources at the online site for this alert. <http://www.nuclearfreecal.org/nfcnet/2012/07/cpuc-investigation-of-san-onof…> *If you can't show use the online tools to make a call or send email. Action Alert California Public Utilities Commission San Onofre OII Vote Thursday -- August 2nd -- 9:00 AM 505 Van Ness Ave -- San Francisco CPUC Main Auditorium The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) will vote whether to do a special investigation called an OII(Order Instituting Investigation) for San Onofre on August 2nd at the CPUC's headquarters in San Francisco at 9:00 AM during their regular meeting. What's at stake couldn't be more important. The CPUC has the power to close San Onofre on the grounds that it is no longer economically viable to run. The politically appointed commissioners will be under immense pressure to allow Southern California Edison (SoCal Ed), the company that owns San Onofre, to continue with the status quot. In fact, the chairman of the CPUC, Michael Peevey, also happens to be the former head of SoCal Ed. There has been major pressure for Peevey to step down because his role in protecting PG&E from stronger actions as a result of the 2009 San Bruno gas pipeline explosion. At a minimum he should either step aside on this issue due to a conflict of interest or vote for the investigation. If you are able to attend, please do so and sign up to speak. The public is given 3 minutes to speak at the start of the meeting. Here are the rules for speaking. <http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/PUC/aboutus/Divisions/CSID/Public+Advisor/Public+Com…> If you can't attend please send an email with your written concerns. Here are the rules for written comments. <http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/PUC/aboutus/Divisions/CSID/Public+Advisor/Written+In…> Please see below for individual addresses of the commissioners (note that not all of them can be reached via email). Here's the link to the agenda <http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/published/agenda/docs/3298.pdf> ** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Contacting the CPUC Commissioners The CPUC which is made up of several major Divisions. The CPUC Commissioners aren't interested in public interaction directly, but request that you send your comments to the Public Advisor that is supposed to forward your concerns to them. They assume that the primary means for reaching them is during the Public Comment session reserved at the beginning of each meeting, which gives each person 3 minutes to make a comment. (Rules governing Public Comments <http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/PUC/aboutus/Divisions/CSID/Public+Advisor/Public+Com…>) How the Public Advisor handles Email Comments. <http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/PUC/aboutus/Divisions/CSID/Public+Advisor/Written+In…> However, some of the Commissioners do have email options, while one has a Facebook Account!(see below) Please see sample letter or Economic Issues to craft your message. Online signup form to make comments during the CPUC meeting <https://ia.cpuc.ca.gov/requesttocomment/> Toll Free information # for CPUC - 800.848.5580 Send Email Comments to: ** public.advisor(a)cpuc.ca.gov <mailto:public.advisor@cpuc.ca.gov> *CPUC Public Advisor* 505 Van Ness Avenue, Room 2103 San Francisco, CA 94102 ***Commissioner Mark J. Ferron* California Public Utilities Commission 505 Van Ness Avenue San Francisco, CA 94102 Telephone: 415.703.2444 Send E-mail <https://ia.cpuc.ca.gov/sendemail/sendemail.aspx?cmr=5213> *Commissioner Mike Florio* California Public Utilities Commission 505 Van Ness Avenue San Francisco, CA 94102 Telephone: 415.703.2440 *Commissioner Catherine J.K. Sandoval* California Public Utilities Commission 505 Van Ness Avenue San Francisco, CA 94102 *Commissioner Timothy Simon* California Public Utilities Commission 505 Van Ness Avenue, Room 5213 San Francisco, CA 94102 Telephone: 415-703-1407 Commissioner Simon's Facebook Page <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Commissioner-Timothy-Alan-Simon/74613357160?r…> *President Michael R. Peevey* California Public Utilities Commission 505 Van Ness Avenue San Francisco, CA 94102 Telephone: 415.703.2782 or 3703 Send E-mail <https://ia.cpuc.ca.gov/sendemail/sendemail.aspx?cmr=5218> -- Roger Herried Abalone Alliance Clearinghouse archivist Energy Net <http://www.energy-net.org>

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[Sustain] Alert! Tell Utilities Commission: Don't Let Corporations Hijack CA Energy Efficiency Funds! (DEADLINE, 12 noon, Aug 1, 2012)
by Eric Brooks 30 Jul '12

30 Jul '12

Hi all, Please spread this alert far and wide to every Californian you know. Tell The California Public Utilities Commission: Don't Let Fossil Fuel Energy Corporations Hijack Our Energy Efficiency Funds! This Thursday August 2, 9am, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) will vote on vital permissions to allow local communities to spend their own funds to greatly increase installation of energy efficiency, in order to lower electricity bills, fight the climate crisis, and provide badly needed local jobs. For decades, the monopoly fossil fuel energy corporations which control our electricity grid, PG&E, SDG&E, and Southern California Edison, have been allowed to manage these funds, which are generated from a state approved surcharge on every electricity customer's bill. But because it is not in the interest of corporations selling fossil fuel energy to get customers to buy less of that energy, the efficiency programs created under this corporate control have been wasteful and minimal. Marin County, the cities of Richmond and San Francisco, and other California cities, are now working hard to bring energy efficiency funds back to the communities and ratepayers that paid for them in the first place to engage much stronger local programs. If these communities succeed in asserting their clear right to these funds, it will set the stage for all other cities and counties in California to do the same. But the fossil energy monopolies are now putting massive lobbying pressure on the CPUC to reject local community use of energy efficiency funds. If Californians don't speak up, these monopolies will be sure to get their way. WHAT YOU CAN DO: EMAIL THE CPUC TODAY! (AND IF YOU CAN, SPEAK AT THE THURSDAY AUG 2ND HEARING IN SAN FRANCISCO!) Email the following sample, with a few of your own added words, to the CPUC at: public.advisor(a)cpuc.ca.gov Subject: Please Vote Yes On Res E-4518 - Marin Energy Authority Efficiency Plan "Dear CPUC Commissioners, Please vote yes on Resolution E-4518 to approve the Marin Energy Authority 2012 Energy Efficiency Plan. The funds that customers pay for energy efficiency programs should be overseen by their own local communities, not the fossil fuel based electricity monopolies. Sincerely, [your name, California city, and Zip Code]" SPEAK AT THE HEARING The Commission hearing will be held on Thursday, August 2, 9am, at the CPUC Auditorium, 505 Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco (cross-corner from San Francisco City Hall and 5 blocks from Civic Center BART). Show up a little early to sign a public comment form to address agenda item 24, or alternatively sign up online by noon on Wednesday August 1, at: https://ia.cpuc.ca.gov/requesttocomment <https://ia.cpuc.ca.gov/requesttocomment/> PLEASE NOTE THAT THE COMMISSION MAY DECIDE TO HOLD THIS ITEM UNTIL THEIR NEXT MEETING - So before you come to San Francisco to speak, check online after 5pm on Wednesday August 1, at http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PUBLISHED/AGENDA/171103.htm to make sure there has been no 'hold' placed on the item. Thanks for your public action on this crucial clean energy decision! Eric Brooks Campaign Coordinator, Our City http://our-city.org

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[Sustain] Fwd: Morning Mix Show: Friday July 13: Project Censored Special on the San Francisco Bohemian Club
by Don Eichelberger 12 Jul '12

12 Jul '12

Be sure and tune in Friday morning 8-9 to KPFA. I will be on with Peter Phillips talking about Boho Grove and Fukushima, along with Fukushima resident and activist, Chieko Shiina, among others- see below. Don -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Morning Mix Show: Friday July 13: Project Censored Special on the San Francisco Bohemian Club Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 13:28:31 -0700 From: Peter Phillips <peter.phillips(a)sonoma.edu> CC: July 13 Morning Mix-Project Censored show is a Bohemian Grove special. Peter Phillips, Mickey Huff and Andy Roth will cover the history of the San Francisco Bohemian Club. We will interview Chieko Shiina an activist and organic farmer and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Survivor visiting California sponsored by the No Nukes Action Committee. Chieko Shiina will be speaking at the Occupy Bohemian Grove protest July 14 regarding the Club's long association with Nuclear energy. Also, we will be in conservation with Don Eichelberger on the history of the Bohemian Grove Action Network and his work with Abalone Alliance. Steve Zeltzer will present work-week radio and we will end the show with interviews of Occupy activists and their plans for the Bohemian Grove protest this Saturday in Monte Rio near the Bohemian Grove in Sonoma County.

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