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[Sustain] Fwd: RE: HR 3053-National Nuclear Waste Policy Act revision- moves to Senate
by Don Eichelberger 15 May '18

15 May '18

More info on HR 3053 from NIRS -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: RE: HR 3053-National Nuclear Waste Policy Act revision- moves to Senate Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 23:44:26 +0000 From: Mary Olson <maryo(a)nirs.org> To: Don—THANK You for posting. I am not a subscriber to all the lists you copied (and are listed above)…only the NFC list. Re: HR 3053 / the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act: If folks are not on the Nuclear Information and Resource Service ALERT list, you might want to look back at some of the action-steps / background info. We don’t know what a Senate Bill would look like, but speaking against the bad provisions of HR 3053 is a good starting point. NIRS ALERTS: https://www.nirs.org/alerts-rss/(there are a range of issues—but MANY on this waste bill). Join the ALERT LIST (we will be working the Senate side): http://org2.salsalabs.com/o/5502/p/salsa/web/common/public/signup?signup_pa… If these provisions become law, it will allow the Dept of Energy to become owner of the largest pile of irradiated fuel on the planet, currently located in over 70 congressional districts, and on property belonging to some of the largest corporations in any state) and then ship it, as tax-payer property, to privately owned storage sites (each in only one congressional district) and then, well, probably effectively walk away…leaving one House Member and two Senators to worry about what happens next. Alternately, AREVA will determine what happens next, since the French reprocessing giant loves plutonium separation, one can imagine a huge nuclear-welfare-program for the plutonium-based “Gen IV” reactors….or since it is now DOE / NNSA plutonium…hell, why not just send it off to NNSA Plutonium Land. (I know, I get a bit over the top about Plutonium—I have given 20+ years to the NIX MOX campaign…and am deeply offended to hear that NNSA / DOE want to take the MOX factory (at SRS) we fought long and hard and now convert it to a Plutonium PIT factory—the cores for thermonuclear weapons). Great. Mary Mary Olson maryo(a)nirs.org <mailto:maryo@nirs.org> NIRS Southeast www.nirs.org <http://www.nirs.org> 828-252-8409 / 828-242-5621 cell *From:*nirs@sanonofre.com [mailto:nirs@sanonofre.com] *On Behalf Of *Louise Dunlap *Sent:* Monday, May 14, 2018 12:53 PM *To:* Don Eichelberger <done7777(a)sbcglobal.net> *Cc:* Abalone Alliance Clearinghouse <abalone(a)energy-net.org>; GPSF Sustainability Working Group <sustainability(a)sfgreens.org>; green issues working group <green-issues-wg(a)cagreens.org>; NFC Summit Group <nirs(a)sanonofre.com> *Subject:* Re: HR 3053-National Nuclear Waste Policy Act revision- moves to Senate Thanks for giving voice to this hard news. I wondered why this list was so silent on it. There is one petition out there, but I trust there will be other concerted efforts. Here it is https://secure.foodandwateraction.org/act/tell-senate-no-nuclear-waste-yucc… Louise D. On May 13, 2018, at 4:18 PM, Don Eichelberger <done7777(a)sbcglobal.net <mailto:done7777@sbcglobal.net>> wrote: Dear Everyone- The unthinkable happened on May 10th when House of Representatives passed the Nuclear Waste Policy Act revision, HR 3015. Among other egregious things this bill would do is to privatize High Level Nuclear Waste storage: "This title also authorizes DOE to enter into an agreement with a non-Federal entity for the purposes of storing SNF (spent nuclear fuel) to which the Department holds title." (from bill Purpose and Summary) The bill also calls for forcing nuclear waste storage- at least interim- at Yucca Mountain. read the bill here: https://www.congress.gov/115/crpt/hrpt355/CRPT-115hrpt355-pt1.pdf At this writing it has not been issued a Senate Bill number yet. It will most likely go to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee for debate and amendment. They can be contacted through https://www.energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/home No telling if and when it will come to a floor vote, although I would think they'll try for sooner than later. Contact your senator early and often. https://www.senate.gov/reference/common/faq/How_to_correspond_senators.htm Until it can be moved to one permanent location it is highly stupid to be moving this stuff around very much given the potential devastation of an accident or worse. Please do what you can to stop the stupids. Thanks, Don -- Don Eichelberger Abalone Alliance Safe Energy Clearinghouse/ Nuclear Free California Shut down nuclear power www.nuclearfreecal.org/nfcnet/ <http://www.nuclearfreecal.org/nfcnet/> www.energy-net.org <http://www.energy-net.org> Expose the back room dealer elite at Bohemian Grove www.exposebohemiangrove.net <http://www.exposebohemiangrove.net> more info at: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/03/01/18708527.php And also: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/07/07/18758353.php Follow at www.Facebook.com/BGANsc <http://www.Facebook.com/BGANsc> Learn about the Evolution of the US Surveillance State https://surveillance1984blog.wordpress.com/ What to do about Trump https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/02/20/18796676.php More about me at www.Facebook.com/DonEichelberger <http://www.Facebook.com/DonEichelberger> Check my original music at www.MySpace.com/donnyfix <http://www.MySpace.com/donnyfix> "The government of an exclusive company of merchants is, perhaps, the worst of all governments for any country whatever." Adam Smith, "Wealth of Nations" Ch.7 “When there’s a huge solar energy spill, it’s just called a ‘nice day'." -Colin Murchie- "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." -Voltaire

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[Sustain] HR 3053-National Nuclear Waste Policy Act revision- moves to Senate
by Don Eichelberger 13 May '18

13 May '18

Dear Everyone- The unthinkable happened on May 10th when House of Representatives passed the Nuclear Waste Policy Act revision, HR 3015. Among other egregious things this bill would do is to privatize High Level Nuclear Waste storage: "This title also authorizes DOE to enter into an agreement with a non-Federal entity for the purposes of storing SNF (spent nuclear fuel) to which the Department holds title." (from bill Purpose and Summary) The bill also calls for forcing nuclear waste storage- at least interim- at Yucca Mountain. read the bill here: https://www.congress.gov/115/crpt/hrpt355/CRPT-115hrpt355-pt1.pdf At this writing it has not been issued a Senate Bill number yet. It will most likely go to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee for debate and amendment. They can be contacted through https://www.energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/home No telling if and when it will come to a floor vote, although I would think they'll try for sooner than later. Contact your senator early and often. https://www.senate.gov/reference/common/faq/How_to_correspond_senators.htm Until it can be moved to one permanent location it is highly stupid to be moving this stuff around very much given the potential devastation of an accident or worse. Please do what you can to stop the stupids. Thanks, Don -- Don Eichelberger Abalone Alliance Safe Energy Clearinghouse/ Nuclear Free California Shut down nuclear power www.nuclearfreecal.org/nfcnet/ www.energy-net.org Expose the back room dealer elite at Bohemian Grove www.exposebohemiangrove.net more info at: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/03/01/18708527.php And also: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/07/07/18758353.php Follow at www.Facebook.com/BGANsc Learn about the Evolution of the US Surveillance State https://surveillance1984blog.wordpress.com/ What to do about Trump https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/02/20/18796676.php More about me at www.Facebook.com/DonEichelberger Check my original music at www.MySpace.com/donnyfix "The government of an exclusive company of merchants is, perhaps, the worst of all governments for any country whatever." Adam Smith, "Wealth of Nations" Ch.7 “When there’s a huge solar energy spill, it’s just called a ‘nice day'." -Colin Murchie- "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." -Voltaire

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[Sustain] Fwd: Re: Changes to electricity in San Francisco
by Don Eichelberger 12 Aug '17

12 Aug '17

Can anyone explain to me what this is about and if it impacts CCA? I suspect it must, but would like to know the poop if anyone has it. Thanks, Don -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: Changes to electricity in San Francisco Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2017 19:54:52 +0000 From: Arcadia Power via Daily Kos <campaigns(a)dailykos.com> Reply-To: campaigns(a)dailykos.com To: done7777(a)sbcglobal.net Action Network Email Don, there is an important choice on the table for California residents that helps combat the Trump administration’s disgusting focus on leaving the Paris Agreement and bringing coal back, COAL. The choice is one of the simplest, yet most impactful actions you can do right this minute: sign up your home or apartment for clean energy. Our partner, Arcadia Power has made this available to all California residents. Whether you live in an apartment or a house, anyone who pays a power bill in California can do it. All you have to do is *go to their website* <http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/5wA/ni0YAA/t.27t/aftBj-5WRKW-mQxvGXxv…> and opt-in your local utility account. It takes two minutes from start to finish. There is nothing to install, there are no contracts, and your local utility still delivers reliable electricity. The only difference is your utility account will be opted-in to Arcadia Power’s clean energy program for California residents. Starting with your next power bill every time you turn on the lights you will support clean, renewable energy sources. When people are given a choice, they can move entire industries, now you have a tool to do it. Join a community of thousands of Daily Kos activists in California and across the country who are making their homes contribute to a clean energy future. *Plus, sign up this month and Arcadia will apply a $10 savings credit to your next electric bill >>* <http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/5wA/ni0YAA/t.27t/aftBj-5WRKW-mQxvGXxv…> Thank you, Chris Bowers Executive Campaign Director, Daily Kos P.S. For every person who signs up, Arcadia Power gives extra support to Daily Kos’s progressive efforts. /Paid for by Arcadia Power/ /Daily Kos, PO Box 70036, Oakland, CA, 94612./ Sent via ActionNetwork.org <http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/5wA/ni0YAA/t.27t/aftBj-5WRKW-mQxvGXxv…>. To update your email address or to stop receiving emails from Daily Kos, please click here <http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/5wA/ni0YAA/t.27t/aftBj-5WRKW-mQxvGXxv…>.

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[Sustain] Trump vs. Bohemia
by Don Eichelberger 17 Jul '17

17 Jul '17

<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> All-<br> <br> The ruling elite have gathered again to burn Care and share their special time together at Bohemian Grove. So it is a good time to share this article I wrote on their relationship with Donald Trump, the only Republican US President since 1908 elected without the blessing, and money, of the Bohemian brotherhood. Will the old guard find ways to effect his policies, if not aim him? Is there even a need; he's likely to put oodles of money in their pockets either way. Read on and decide.<br> <br> http://exposebohemiangrove.org/2017/07/16/trump-vs-bohemia/<br> <br> Feel free to share.<br> <br> Thanks,<br> <br> Don<br> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Don Eichelberger Abalone Alliance Safe Energy Clearinghouse/ Nuclear Free California Shut down nuclear power www.nuclearfreecal.org/nfcnet/ www.energy-net.org Expose the back room dealer elite at Bohemian Grove www.exposebohemiangrove.net more info at: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/03/01/18708527.php And also: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/07/07/18758353.php Follow at www.Facebook.com/BGANsc Learn about the Evolution of the US Surveillance State https://surveillance1984blog.wordpress.com/ What to do about Trump https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/02/20/18796676.php More about me at www.Facebook.com/DonEichelberger Check my original music at www.MySpace.com/donnyfix "The government of an exclusive company of merchants is, perhaps, the worst of all governments for any country whatever." Adam Smith, "Wealth of Nations" Ch.7 “When there’s a huge solar energy spill, it’s just called a ‘nice day'." -Colin Murchie- "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." -Voltaire </pre> </body> </html>

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[Sustain] Fwd: Re: Changes to electricity in San Francisco
by Don Eichelberger 16 May '17

16 May '17

<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <p>All-</p> <p>I just got this email and I worry about Arcadia Power's effect on SF Community Choice Aggregation, as well as other CCAs who might be getting this or similar messages? CCA lets the city buy power as an aggregate. It looks like Arcadia Power could take customers out of that aggregate, putting them in a separate system and drive prices up for those who remain? Or, does Arcadia Power somehow augment renewables in the system? Focus is on wind.<br> </p> <p>Here is their web site, <br> </p> <p>http://faq.arcadiapower.com/knowledge_base/topics/how-does-this-work-free-a…</p> <p>What do people think or know? Should we issue a warning? 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There aren’t any options available, the bill is hard to understand, and we don’t really know what we’re paying for. Worst of all, when those bills are high (or really low!), we don’t really know why.<br> <br> We get it. Someone needed to flip the industry on its head and make clean energy just as easy as buying organic milk or fair-trade coffee.<br> <br> That’s why my cofounder and I started Arcadia Power.<br> <br> With Arcadia, <a href="http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/5QA/ni0YAA/t.27d/YHlMsVTxRzCDikEdEJa8…" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><strong>you finally have a choice when it comes to your home’s energy</strong></a>, whether you live in a home or apartment. 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[Sustain] Wednesday 8am til 6pm SF Fed Bldg tomorrow re DAP emergency action
by Don Eichelberger 08 Feb '17

08 Feb '17

> *From: *Isabella Zizi <28isabellazz(a)gmail.com > <mailto:28isabellazz@gmail.com>> > *Date: *February 7, 2017 5:32:27 PM PST > *Subject: **Last Stand NoDAPL action in SF 2/8* Good afternoon, Idle No More SF Bay invites you to join us in an emergency day of action tomorrow in San Francisco outside of the*Federal Building located at 90 7th St. San Francisco*, Ca 94103. Join us from *8am until 6pm*. Below is the Facebook invite page and our response to this mornings approval of the final easement for the Dakota Access Pipeline. https://www.facebook.com/events/959089084225279/ "EMERGENCY #NoDAPL <https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/nodapl> Action! Arrestival! Stand with us! Share widely! Rain is a blessing! Dress for the weather. FINAL DAPL EASEMENT APPROVED Today, Tuesday February 7, the US Army Corps gave notice of intent to grant the final easement for the Dakota Access Pipeline to cross the Mni Sose (Missouri River). They are skipping the EIS ordered in December, and skipping the congressional notification period required by law. This is a response to President Trump’s Presidential Memorandum directing the Corps to expedite approval of the project. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe will likely sue and ask for a temporary restraining order to halt construction while the legality of this decision is reviewed in court. In the meantime, DAPL will likely start drilling immediately. The media recently reported that DAPL says their "best case scenario" timeline is 83 days from easement to oil flow. WORLDWIDE CALL TO ACTION FEB. 8 The Indigenous Coalition at Standing Rock is calling for February 8th to be an international day of emergency actions to disrupt business as usual and unleash a global intersectional resistance to fossil fuels and fascism. Connect with other struggles. Think long-term movement building. We are in this for the long haul. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has consistently asked for people to go home, and we understand this. Regardless, water protectors remain on the ground at the Sacred Stone Camp, determined to stop the black snake, and we support them. If you go, expect police violence, mass arrests, felony charges for just about anything, abuse while in custody, targeted persecution and racial profiling while driving around the area, etc. We are calling for emergency actions all over the world. PLEASE, THIS IS OUR LAST STAND. Please visit everydayofaction.org <http://everydayofaction.org/> to find or register an action wherever you are. Check out our world action map to join the mass distributed actions TOMORROW, February 8th. More here: http://sacredstonecamp.org/blog/2017/2/7/breaking-army-corps-to-grant-dakot… <http://sacredstonecamp.org/blog/2017/2/7/breaking-army-corps-to-grant-dakot…> Statement from Tom Goldtooth, Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network: “Donald Trump will not build his Dakota Access Pipeline without a fight. The granting of an easement, without any environmental review or tribal consultation, is not the end of this fight — it is the new beginning. Expect mass resistance far beyond what Trump has seen so far. “The granting of this easement goes against protocol, it goes against legal process, it disregards more than 100,000 comments already submitted as part of the not-yet-completed environmental review process — all for the sake of Donald Trump’s billionaire big oil cronies. And, it goes against the treaty rights of the entire Seven Councils Fires of the Sioux Nations. “Donald Trump has not met with a single Native Nation since taking office. Our tribal nations and Indigenous grassroots peoples on the frontlines have had no input on this process. We support the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, and stand with them at this troubling time.” You can read that notification letter here: http://www.ienearth.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Dakota-Access-Pipeline-N… <http://www.ienearth.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Dakota-Access-Pipeline-N…> " Hope to see you there, Idle No More SF Bay On Feb 7, 2017, at 5:41 PM, cynthia papermaster cynthia_papermaster(a)yahoo.com <mailto:cynthia_papermaster@yahoo.com> [fukushimaresponse] wrote: > > > Oh no! > I just saw this: > > > Trump administration withdraws EIS process;Announces that Oahe > easement will be issued within 24 hours.Standing Rock denounces > Army easement announcement,vows court challenge. > > FAQ: Standing Rock Litigation > <http://earthjustice.org/features/faq-standing-rock-litigation?utm_source=cr…> > > > > > > > > > FAQ: Standing Rock Litigation > > On the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s > lawsuit. Why was the lawsuit brought? Who is t... > > > <http://earthjustice.org/features/faq-standing-rock-litigation?utm_source=cr…> > > https://www.facebook.com/DigitalSmokeSignals/videos/10155710404154746/ > > > > // > > > On Tuesday, February 7, 2017 5:31 PM, "cynthia > papermastercynthia_papermaster(a)yahoo.com > <mailto:cynthia_papermaster@yahoo.com>[fukushimaresponse]" > <fukushimaresponse(a)yahoogroups.com > <mailto:fukushimaresponse@yahoogroups.com>> wrote: > > > Romi, > What a terrific letter. I am so grateful for your skill and example. > I will share the letter and information about contacting the Army > Corps of Engineers so that more people will be encouraged to write. > Thank you so much. > Cynthia Papermaster, Berkeley > > https://www.facebook.com/DigitalSmokeSignals/videos/10155710404154746/ > > > > // > > > On Friday, January 27, 2017 7:50 AM, "Romi > Elnagarmontereypinegreen(a)gmail.com > <mailto:montereypinegreen@gmail.com>[fukushimaresponse]" > <fukushimaresponse(a)yahoogroups.com > <mailto:fukushimaresponse@yahoogroups.com>> wrote: > > > This morning I sent the following message to the Army Corps of > Engineers in regarding to their impending ruling on the Dakota Access > Pipeline. As always, you are welcome to "borrow" any or all of this > letter for your own message to the ACE, which I strongly encourage you > to send. > > The webpage of the ACE where I found this address was > > https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/01/18/2017-00937/notice-of-i… > > The Wikipedia article on oil spills is at > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pipeline_accidents_in_the_United_Stat… > > In solidarity, > Romi > > > > ----- Forwarded Message ----- > *To:*"gib.a.owen.civ(a)mail.mil <mailto:gib.a.owen.civ@mail.mil>" > <gib.a.owen.civ(a)mail.mil <mailto:gib.a.owen.civ@mail.mil>> > *Sent:*Friday, January 27, 2017 9:32 AM > *Subject:*NOI Comments, Dakota Access Pipeline > > Dear Mr. Owen, > > The piping of oil has a history of spills. Four days ago, aboriginal > land in Sasketchewan, Canada, was polluted with over 200,000 gallons > of oil. Two days ago, the Magellan pipeline in Worth county, Iowa, > spilled 138,000 gallons of oil onto private land. In 2017, there were > 29 oil spills according to the Wikipedia article on the subject. > There may have been others not listed in that source. > > Oil spills are a disaster, and when those spills pollute the water > sources for a community, or a series of communities along a major > river, they become inexcusable. No company has the right to profit at > the cost of so much dislocation and suffering of innocent citizens. > > This is especially true for people who derive their livelihoods in > some way or other from the polluted land or water. The Native > Americans who are now confined to the reservations to be transited by > the DAPL have traditionally used the rivers there for literally > millennia to transport their food source, the buffalo which they hunt. > How will they eat now if the buffalo are floated downriver in waters > contaminated with oil? > > Which brings up the question of treaty rights. 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[Sustain] Energy update
by Don Eichelberger 16 Nov '16

16 Nov '16

<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <p>Here is an update on important moves on the energy front I hope you will find interesting and helpful.</p> <p>Don<br> </p> <p>https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/11/11/18793392.php</p> <div class="webcast"> <div class="headers"> <div class="heading"><strong class="heading">Energy 2016</strong></div> <div class="author">by Don Eichelberger <span class="nowrap author-email"></span> <br> <span class="nowrap"><em>Friday Nov 11th, 2016 5:40 PM </em></span></div> </div> <div class="summary">A report on two major projects moving forward to alter how electric energy is produced and distributed in the US. More renewables, less nuclear and coal is the goal, but is that even possible with capitalists controlling the market?</div> <div class="article"><br> <br> --Shutting Down Nuclear and Building Renewables; Easier Said than Done <br> <br> As the state implements SB350, a season of energy compromise is being called for <br> <br> Energy agencies and board rooms have been hopping since summer making plans to transform the California energy landscape as nothing has since energy deregulation in 1996 separated generation from distribution. Two big ideas in the works: one would incorporate California in to a Western Regional grid aimed at expanding access to wind power; the other would end nuclear power generation in California. Both are under siege from many directions. <br> <br> The shut down of Diablo Canyon, negotiated between PG&E, environmental organizations, unions and others, hinges on what some consider too long a time line. The utility gets nine more years, until their NRC operating licenses run out, for the reactors to continue challenging geology and clogging the grid with electricity that could be more cheaply and cleanly produced by renewables. <br> <br> PG&E is also excused from performing a long overdue study of the environmental impacts of their once-through cooling system that has been killing the natural habitat since it wiped out the once abundant abalone along its shore in the ‘70’s. <br> <br> Others consider the deal a success, “Only nine more years of reactor operation; a blueprint for the future shutdown of all nukes!” <br> <br> If it really does happen in nine years, and all goes well along the faults--despite production of tons more waste with nowhere to be put-- it may be, as Lt. Governor Gavin Newsome calls it, “the best deal we could get.” <br> <br> But, we have seen this beast resurrect before, so we’ll be watching. There is a well funded pro-nuke movement forming trying to spin a “nukes are good” message touting low greenhouse gas emissions, framing concerns about radiation as alarmism, some claiming a little radiation is good for our health. <br> <br> PG&E came to the conservation and renewables party late, kicking and screaming. As early as 2008 utilities were seeing severe cuts in demand they worried would last beyond the recession (WSJ). No capitalist market model accommodates conservation well. Solar and conservation take away their customers, jeopardizing investor profits. For many years, community groups like Women’s Energy Matters, advocating through the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), forced wasted energy out of PG&E wires and more renewables in to them. And communities throughout the service area have opted out of PG&E through Community Choice Aggregation (CCA’s), looking for cleaner power. <br> <br> Along with other investor-owned utilities (IOU’s) across the country, PG&E has been working to gut net energy metering (NEM) and CCA’s, which have taken many terawatts of “product” out of its distribution lines and billions out of bank accounts--the real force that made them willing to negotiate the shutdown of Diablo Canyon. To counter the solar threat, PG&E had to jump in front of the parade and guide it to its power distribution infrastructure. What better way than the announced shutdown—on the Summer Solstice--of California’s last operating nuclear power reactors? <br> <br> Solar rooftops and city scale local solar projects could, if done right, fuel small business growth, and make large transmission grids obsolete, or at least less necessary. Already, the Solar Energy Industry Association predicts 20,000 megawatts of installed solar in the next five years. PG&E can’t have that. Under deregulation, PG&E got the grid and certain generation assets, including Diablo Canyon, dams, natural gas plants and geysers, and other qualifying generators, including solar and wind, were allowed to sell power in to the grid. PG&E charges a fee for every watt carried, so conservation and rooftop solar are proven money losers. There is concern that PG&E will use the nine year time line to implement a portfolio of renewables that will shape the renewable energy markets in a way that undermines the appeal of rooftop solar. <br> <br> According to New York Times, “During the first quarter of (2016) alone, at least 10 states were weighing or approving rate design measures that could undermine the economic appeal of home solar systems, according to data compiled by the North Carolina Clean Energy Technology Center”. While Hawaii and Nevada have ended solar credits that made solar thrive in those states, Florida voters failed to get the 2/3 majority needed to pass a constitutional amendment that opponents feared would undermine solar in the Sunshine State. California’s PUC only tightened the loop a small bit, adding some non-bypassable hook up charges with promises of more to come after 2020, when the current deal runs out. California utilities have filed suit against the NEM ruling, which forces them to buy rooftop solar at higher prices. <br> <br> In the signed memorandum for the shutdown of Diablo Canyon, the company has promised to use renewable energy, conservation and storage to replace 55% of the 2200 MW of power lost from the reactor shutdowns by 2031. Only half the reactors’ power needs to be replaced because so many people conserved, went solar or went CCA. Fifty-five percent is in line with the requirement in California Senate Bill 350 (SB350)—the Clean Energy and Pollution Reduction Act-- to replace half the state’s energy with renewables and conservation by 2030. <br> <br> PG&E will also try to recoup approximately $2 billion to pay off the reactors while working hard to maintain a profit margin for investors, to the detriment, many feel, of more decentralized energy delivery models and small businesses. The deal is now before the CPUC for consideration, and no guarantee of approval. <br> <br> The other big idea in the works, the proposed expansion of the California Grid is being challenged by mountain state coal interests and the Sierra Club, among others. <br> <br> While challenging rooftop solar programs, net metering and Community Choice Aggregation, IOU’s are also moving forward on efforts ostensibly to gain access to more renewable (wind) energy in to the California electrical grid, but would move energy decisions out of state control. <br> <br> California Independent Systems Operator (CALISO), who oversees the California grid, along with California Energy Commission (CEC) and the CPUC, have been working to implement a proposed grid expansion to encompass the windy Rocky Mountain States from Montana to New Mexico. This fits with a long held industry plan to merge local utilities to form regional grids. This takes control of utility grids out of state utility commissions and puts it in to the hands of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in far away DC. California’s ban on imported coal energy would be overcome. There are reports that Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway is sniffing around PG&E. They already own much of the grid from Montana to New Mexico. <br> <br> The expansion would include setting a timeline for replacement of coal fired power plants, which account for about 60% of the energy in some of the grids, with wind. One of the provisions would allow a short-term spike in coal fired energy in to our state grid in exchange for promised shrinking coal use in the future. Coal would eventually be replaced mainly with wind through the interconnected multi-state grid. <br> <br> The process, set forth in SB350, was threatened after Wyoming legislators, who don’t want “a windmill on every ridge” producing energy for export to Oregon, Washington and California, and angry over California’s refusal to allow Wyoming coal shipments to China through the port of Oakland, introduced a bill that would have tripled the nation’s only tax on wind energy from $1 to $3 per kilowatt hour. It was narrowly defeated this past September. <br> <br> Discourse continues on governance, a big can of worms full of who rules and how questions. It is a fight for control of a huge market, and investor owned utilities (IOU’s) in California own the means of distribution for energy produced from afar. They have the inside edge and clear self interest in dampening distributed solar rooftop generation, which, it is estimated, could provide 70% of the state’s power if fully utilized. <br> <br> The issue comes down to Socialism 1A, “Owning the Means of Production”. “Workers” can now own solar arrays and never have to pay a capitalist again for energy. They can even get a return on their investment; a profit. Or, they can unite in a CCA and purchase clean power as a co-op. <br> <br> To now, energy has been produced by industry and sold as a commodity. That paradigm is shifting as utilities find there is more mostly non-renewable energy flowing in their lines than people are willing to buy, and cheaper solar, net metering and CCA’s make more alternatives available. As the emerging energy landscape develops, we must work to see the gains made are protected and expanded. <br> <br> Don Eichelberger <br> Abalone Alliance Safe Energy Clearinghouse/ <br> Nuclear Free California, Shut down Nuclear Power <br> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.energy-net.org">http://www.energy-net.org</a>, <br> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nuclearfreecal.org/nfcnet/">http://www.nuclearfreecal.org/nfcnet/</a> <br> </div> <div class="link"><a href="http://www.energy-net.org">http://www.energy-net.org</a></div> </div> <br> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Don Eichelberger Abalone Alliance Safe Energy Clearinghouse/ Nuclear Free California Shut down nuclear power www.nuclearfreecal.org/nfcnet/ www.energy-net.org Expose the back room dealer elite at Bohemian Grove www.exposebohemiangrove.net more info at: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/03/01/18708527.php And also: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/07/07/18758353.php Follow at www.Facebook.com/BGANsc Learn about the Evolution of the US Surveillance State https://surveillance1984blog.wordpress.com/ More about me at www.Facebook.com/DonEichelberger Check my original music at www.MySpace.com/donnyfix "The government of an exclusive company of merchants is, perhaps, the worst of all governments for any country whatever." Adam Smith, "Wealth of Nations" Ch.7 “When there’s a huge solar energy spill, it’s just called a ‘nice day'." -Colin Murchie- "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." -Voltaire </pre> </body> </html>

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[Sustain] Fwd: Disqualify the CPD – Update on "Commission on Presidential Debates: Include All Qualified Candidates in 2016 Presidential Debates"
by Don Eichelberger 15 Oct '16

15 Oct '16

Talk about a gatekeeper role! This "Commission", which sounds all kinds of official, is actually an illegal "non-profit" set up by the two main parties in 1987, taking the role away from the more open League of Women Voters. According to Wikipedia, its donors consist of six large donations (kept secret by current campaign laws). Greens and others have been moving a suit through the legal system challenging CPD's non-profit IRS status, which forbids partisanship. It allows political education"provided the activities specifically do not "[favor] a candidate or group of candidates" (IRS), which their rules plainly do by setting limits unobtainable without lots of money or the kind of exposure offered by these debates. Clearly, the debates need to be more open. But how to do that without turning it in to the kind of circus that produced a Trump candidacy out of a crowded Republican field? (Although I'm still not sure the best possible decision wasn't made; Rubio? Cruz? Christie??). But that's for another conversation. Trump is a symptom of an electorate very angry at the politics as usual that has been ruled by the "military-industrial complex" since the early days of the republic. Politics is about limiting and defining the opposition. Keeping majority control in the fewest hands is the corporate game. How do we end this? Don -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Disqualify the CPD – Update on "Commission on Presidential Debates: Include All Qualified Candidates in 2016 Presidential Debates" Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2016 09:24:57 -0600 From: Open The Debates! <mail(a)change.org> Reply-To: Change.org <no-reply(a)change.org> To: done7777(a)sbcglobal.net <http://click.exacttarget.change.org/?qs=0e4f0828eb074ca95579c543be620b07844…> Petition update *Open The Debates!* just posted an update on the petition you signed, Commission on Presidential Debates: Include All Qualified Candidates in 2016 Presidential Debates <http://click.exacttarget.change.org/?qs=208f9d7d78be179a1b45c7ad776563fadb8…>. Disqualify the CPD <http://click.exacttarget.change.org/?qs=208f9d7d78be179ac4ddb53a437ce31a42e…> Oct 15, 2016 — The Commission on (Rigged) Presidential Debates has now officially disqualified third party candidates Governor Gary Johnson and Dr. Jill Stein from their third and final debate on October 19. Now it's time for us to disqualify the CPD as the gatekeeper to our selection process for President of the United States. In an election where the two major party (duopoly) candidates are the most... Read more <http://click.exacttarget.change.org/?qs=208f9d7d78be179ac4ddb53a437ce31a42e…> Share this update with friends Share <http://click.exacttarget.change.org/?qs=208f9d7d78be179ae0e64eb5b461b033b81…> Tweet <http://click.exacttarget.change.org/?qs=208f9d7d78be179a9cbdae8eb5bcc8ea651…> Help more people see this petition on Change.org Promote this petition <http://click.exacttarget.change.org/?qs=208f9d7d78be179a2c3b140c876a228f028…> Want to change something? Start a petition <http://click.exacttarget.change.org/?qs=4476734090ab73c63bc1279b9df9c5c6481…> *The person (or organization) who started this petition is not affiliated with Change.org. Change.org did not create this petition and is not responsible for the petition content. * This email was sent by Change.org <#> to done7777(a)sbcglobal.net. To stop news updates from this petition, you may unsubscribe here <http://click.exacttarget.change.org/?qs=4476734090ab73c6589839f477981160285…>. Contact us <http://click.exacttarget.change.org/?qs=56696b60e0ba2678e93d449dffed9fb9549…> · Privacy policy <http://click.exacttarget.change.org/?qs=4476734090ab73c6b7981a4fb6ca62739bc…> © 2015 Change.org · 548 Market St #29993 · San Francisco, CA 94104-5401 · USA

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[Sustain] Fwd: October 29th Update
by Don Eichelberger 10 Oct '16

10 Oct '16

Everyone- I hope you have already seen this invitation and plan to attend this event to recall the long history of anti-nuclear activism that has brought us, with PG&E's Diablo Canyon shutdown announcement, nine years away from a nuclear-free California. While the announced timeline is too long by the reckoning of many, the admission by PG&E that California can get along fine without nuclear power is worth remembering. If you had a hand over the last 40-50 years in actively opposing nuclear power, come share your story and get in on discussion of the future of energy in California. Please forward this to anyone you know who would be interested in this gathering. Hope you can come, Don Eichelberger Abalone Alliance Safe Energy Clearinghouse -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: October 29th Update Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 11:17:03 -0700 From: Nuclear Activist <diablobodegareunion(a)gmail.com> To: Nuclear Activist <diablobodegareunion(a)gmail.com> */In fewer than 20 Days, we’ll see you in Bodega Bay!/* Five Decades of Anti-Nuclear Activism Diablo Canyon and Bodega Atomic Park: Conversations & Reflections Good news! We have quite a few “old friends” coming from around the state, and the program is shaping up to be eclectic and engaging.The following is excerpted from a news release sent out this week to selected “sympathetic” journalists. Mary Moore and Mark Evanoff have volunteered to respond to media calls. Please help spread the word by uploading the calendar announcement (below) to your local weekly paper's online submission form, or save and then upload the attached Diablo-Bodega Reunion Postcard as a photo post to your Facebook Page (if you have one). /From the news release:/ “In 1958, the Santa Rosa Press Democrat broke the news about PG&E’s plans for an Atomic Park in Bodega Bay. Dairy farmers, fishermen, and residents from Sonoma County, San Francisco, and Alameda County worked together to defeat the plant in 1964 before PG&E completed construction. Opponents to Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant worked to stop the plant by testifying before regulatory agencies in the 1960s and 1970s. The formation of the Abalone Alliance in 1977 provided a new form of protest involving non-violent civil disobedience. Mass demonstrations inspired many people who advocated for social and environmental change.” *CALENDAR LISTING: Saturday, October 29, 2016 * "Conversations and Reflections: Five Decades of Anti-Nuclear Activism at Diablo Canyon and Bodega Bay Atomic Park" This one-day event brings activists from around the state to Bodega Bay for discussions and activities from 9:30- 5:00pm. Tickets are $38, with a few low income $20 tickets and unlimited sponsor-level tickets for $100 each. All participants must be registered in advance, there will be no ticket sales at the door on the day of the event.* Registration and tickets may be obtained from Brown Paper Tickets at: **diablobodegareunion.brownpapertickets.com* or write to us at: diablobodegareunion(a)gmail.com <mailto:diablobodegareunion@gmail.com> *Remind your friends: The deadline for registration is October 20th* Diablo-Bodega Conversations & Reflections October 29, 2016

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[Sustain] Important Hearing Friday on Diablo shutdown; please attend/comment
by Don Eichelberger 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

Hearing Friday on Diablo Canyon Closure Proposal—Please speak out! Nine more years and no guarantees: No Deal! PG&E will hold the second of two public statewide meetings this Friday in San Francisco to discuss the proposed shutdown of the two nuclear reactors at the Diablo Canyon Power Plant (DCPP) and replacement of lost power with renewables, conservation and storage. In exchange for the shutdown, among other things, the reactors will run nine more years, unmolested by calls for a long overdue Environmental Impact Report. *NINE YEARS IS TOO LONG! We urge your support in a call for the soonest possible shutdown date.* /Nine years more:/ ·Will produce tons more waste with no place to be put; ·Will destroy untolled marine life by the ocean intake cooling system; ·Gives time for PG&E to consolidate its hold on California’s solar industry; and ·Nine more years of praying the Big One doesn’t hit that section of faulted coastline. The nine year transition time was the trade made for PG&E’s guarantee that the void would be filled with energy efficiency, renewables and energy storage and includes a PG&E commitment to a 55 percent renewable energy target in 2031. But, the State of California, through SB350, already mandates 50% renewable energy by 2030, anyway, so what gives? See below for a list of concerns raised by Mother’s for Peace, a report on the State Lands Commission June meeting and analysis of the proposal by Abalone Alliance Safe Energy Clearinghouse, and a point-by-point rebuttal of claims by Lt. Governor Gavin Newsome that the agreement is the best deal. Please attend the Friday meetings: Two meetings to be held that day are open to the public. Each meeting will cover the same information and follow the same format. For parties unable to attend public information meetings, comments can be submitted to diablocanyon(a)pge.com <mailto:diablocanyon@pge.com> prior to July 26, 2016. *San Francisco* July 22, 2016 *Meeting 1/: Noon to 3:45pm/*/Meeting 2*: 4:15 to 8:00pm*/ */South San Francisco/**/Conference Center/**/, 255 S. Airport Boulevard, South San Francisco, CA 94080/* /Public Transit is sparse, but appears from SFO Airport or Millbrae BART, catch SamTrans Bus #397 going north, which stops at or near the conference center./ Long-time Diablo opponents, Mothers for Peace, have suggested the following topics might be among those discussed: 1. Under what circumstances might PG&E back out of its offer to abandon license renewal and replace the electricity from Diablo with 100% renewables? 2. At what point in time will we be GUARANTEED the shut-down date? What is the point of no return for PG&E? 3. In section 2.3 of the Joint Proposal it is specified that PG&E will not issue its Request For Offers (RFOs) of renewable energy until 2020. Why not seek those immediately? 4. What if anything is PG&E giving up by offering this Joint Proposal? It appears that license renewal was not an option anyway, because PG&E will profit more from renewables than from operating reactors designed in the 1960’s. And the State of California through SB350 mandates 50% renewable energy by 2030 anyway. 5.The People of California are asked to give up protection of marine life for another 9 years. We are told by SLC that this Joint Proposal takes off the table an EIR of the effects within the tidelands of 9 more years of operation. This Proposal looks like a deal whereby PG&E gets to strengthen its bottom line while escaping accountability for the environmental damage being caused by the plant every day it operates. 6. How will the Joint Proposal, if implemented, affect Community Choice Aggregation programs in California? 7. Given that the funding to provide a cushion of tax monies for the San Luis Obispo schools will come out of decommissioning funds, tell us how we can know that there will be sufficient funds to dismantle the plant after closure. Will rate-payers be providing those funds, or shareholders? 8. MFP supports PG&E’s efforts to provide economic stability for the workers that are needed at Diablo until shut-down, but questions whether that money should come out of decommissioning funds or from the shareholders. Please explain PG&E’s thinking in proposing that it come from rate-payers via the decommissioning funds. 9. The Joint Proposal doesn’t mention the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s necessary approval for removing money from the decommissioning funds to use for purposes other than decommissioning. How is this deficiency going to be addressed? 10. Has the water Board formally excused PG&E from compliance with California policy to end once-through cooling on the California coastline? Will Diablo continue to cause 80% of the human-caused destruction of marine life on the CA coast until 2025? 11. What changes will PG&E be asking of the PUC regarding homes, parking lots and businesses that ALREADY have solar roofs? What transmission fees and what buy-back programs? *California State Lands Commission kills Diablo Environmental Review; PG&E Makes Grab for Solar Industry* Don Eichelberger, Abalone Alliance Safe Energy Clearinghouse, www.energy-net.org <http://www.energy-net.org> June 28^th , the California State Lands Commission (SLC), reversed their earlier call for an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Environmental_Quality_Act>, extending a lease of state lands to PG&E without an EIR that will allow Diablo Canyon reactors to operate beyond the original 2018 deadline, at least to their NRC license end dates of 2024 and 2025, respectively. Many longtime activists looked on astonished as PG&E orchestrated its bid to gain control of the solar energy market in California. PG&E hailed their new agreement to shut down Diablo Canyon, in exchange for concessions, as a historic occasion, pointing the way to move in an orderly fashion away from nuclear power and toward a future of renewable energy and conservation; something Californians have been doing for a long time anyway, in spite of PG&E and other utilities’ efforts to suppress these sales-robbing technologies. There was agreement by the deal’s critics that the nine-year delay in shutting down Diablo Canyon while building renewables will give PG&E time it needs to solidify a monopoly on renewables at the expense of small, local, independent installers and neighborhood coops. Large, centralized, grid-linked solar installations will dominate the market if utilities get their way and undermine more decentralized technologies and the security they offer against grid failures. Plus, there are no dividends going to utility investors; customers pocket the production payments and credits fuel local installation and service business. The SLC’s day-long hearings, held at two locations simultaneously, turned out a big crowd of those both pro and con. San Luis Obispo local politicians, school board members, Diablo Canyon Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union and others lined up to show their support for keeping the reactor running for as long as possible. Opponents were wary of PG&E for what we considera long history of lawlessness; from the theft of municipal power generated at Hetch-Hetchy, to the poisoning Hinkley water, to pocketing the money needed to keep its gas pipelines in good repair, leading to the San Bruno pipeline explosion. Activists were united in saying an environmental review for the plant was long overdue and that nine years to transition to renewables is too long. Many stressed that it could be done much more quickly if the glut of Diablo Canyon power could be removed from the grid sooner than later. After the decision, follow-up messages to Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom led to an open letter from him (see below) challenging opponents, claiming the agreement held the maximum possible benefits obtainable. *Public Trust * The Lt. Governor hailed the agreement for upholding the Public Trust Doctrine by “forcing PG&E to the table” (with his prior call for an EIR) and getting their assurance the reactors will shut down at the end of their current licenses, with PG&E’s added guarantee that Diablo Canyon power will be replaced strictly with renewables and conservation. He asserted this was the best deal possible. It is our belief the Commission failed to protect the Public Trust <https://c-win.org/public-trust-doctrine/> by failing to balance PG&E’s and San Luis Obispo’s interests with those of the rest of the state. Clearly, PG&E has seen the reports of an electricity market shrinking from conservation and roof top solar taking its customers since the invent of reverse metering and plummeting hardware costs. From the start it was evident the fix was in. The Commission could and should have called for testimony from the solar industry and the California Energy Commission to take a closer look at the Diablo Canyon deal. Finalized only the week before the hearing, the plan to close the reactors was presented as a done deal. PG&E’s supporters were given free reign to claim the harm they face at Diablo’s closure. The audience was also warned by Commissioners that a sudden reactor stoppage, as with the sudden shutdown of San Onofre, would not be tolerated, citing fear of high priced and greenhouse gas-bearing natural gas replacement power. In fact, the deal is nowhere near final, as it must first be approved by the California Public Utilities Commission, and the utility can pull out of the voluntary agreement at any time. CPUC may also have problems with the additional $2 billion the deal calls for to finish paying off Diablo. The state’s solar industry, if it had been present, could have educated the Commissioners of their capability of producing far more jobs and power replacement by 2018 than could PG&E. The industry is exploding as solar costs go down; already over 65,000 jobs have been created in California vs. Diablo’s 1,500. A planned 22,000 megawatts of new solar capacity will be installed over the next five years, ten times Diablo’s 2,200 megawatt output. TheSLC staff’s repor <http://slc.ca.gov/Meetings/06-28-16/Items_and_Exhibits/96.pdf>t (already removed from their web site) that reversed its previous call for an EIR was released only 5 days prior to the vote, leaving the public with an unacceptable amount of time to respond. Many concerned organizations requested a delay, even suggesting that the SLC was breaking state meeting laws. The Commissioners ignored delay requests and voted 3-0 in favor of PG&E getting a lease extension and no EIR. In a troubling revelation by Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility attorney and former California Energy Commissioner, John Geesman, the SLC staff was shown to have used PG&E’s own flawed seismic analyses as reason for not carrying out an EIR, suggesting PG&E helped them write the report. Another reason staff cited to refuse the EIR was the California State Water Control Board’s political dismissal of the plant’s aquatic damages. SLC used its own recently adopted regulations to deny the EIR, while the far more stringent CEQA exemption codes <http://wingspress.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=029b12acb80c80346c4f972…> would allow the SLC to go ahead with either a draft or full review based on extraordinary events that have happened (such as recent and ongoing discovery of new earthquake faults at the plants, events at Fukushima, etc.) or by a major earthquake prior to 2025. The SLC Commissioners said the ten year extension fulfilled their duty to the Public Trust Doctrine by protecting the public from an abrupt, San Onofre styled closure that supposedly led to large scale natural gas replacement (actually caused by a corrupt CPUC <http://wingspress.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=029b12acb80c80346c4f972…>), job losses by workers, and the loss of property taxes that would affect the county’s schools. Proponents calling for the EIR were told their efforts would result in increasing the state’s use of natural gas. Challenging that notion, many speakers gave voice to the belief that the commission could have given PG&E a shorter lease, expediting the shift to renewable energy, rather than waiting until 2020 to begin the replacement. We are witnessing nothing less than a new wave of centralized control by utilities crashing to shore. This ten-year delay in mobilizing renewables will give PG&E the time it needs to exploit their agenda at the expense of small independent sources. Centralized power, no matter what the source, will undermine solar rooftop development that could shift resources back to the general public and away from profit motivated systems. Micro grid development must be the primary plan for California to make local communities self sufficient; the state’s aging grid system should be phased out*.* *Responses to Gavin Newsom’s Claims on the Diablo Canyon Deal, point-by-point, compiled by Abalone Alliance Safe Energy Clearinghouse and others affiliated with the Nuclear-Free California anti-nuclear network:* */Claim:/*/ If I could decommission Diablo Canyon and replace it responsibly without increased carbon emissions tomorrow, I would do it. / No one is saying you can or should replace lost DC power by tomorrow, but we do feel nine years is too long. Tons of radioactive wastes will be produced without anyplace to go, and one of the world’s most majestic (and expensive) landscapes, its ocean population and agricultural land will remain threatened by the considerable seismic activity in the area whose potential for the unexpected we saw at Fukushima. *Claim/:/*/“Those who called for an EIR review have not been able to explain what it would accomplish above and beyond these concessions.”/ There is nothing binding in the document and it can still be withdrawn by PG&E or blocked by the CPUC. We have no guarantee that PG&E will close Diablo Canyon by 2025. As of the end of 2015, PG&E was still actively preparing to extend its NRC license for Diablo Canyon. What we do have is an MOU that the SLC is not party to and that could be reversed by the CPUC, an agency with a failed history of protecting the public. They could easily find that the economic agreement to add an additional $2 billion to Diablo rates, above what it has already recovered, as demanded by PG&E, is enough to scuttle the agreement. The agreement can and should be made stronger, starting with a binding agreement, backed by withdrawal of NRC License Extension requests, for an organized closure with a much shorter timeframe. Negotiations need to reflect the reality that we are dealing with a private company, easily able to buck state policy by a move out of state or merging with a larger entity—a long term goal of the U.S. electric industry. State officials need also to understand that PG&E’s corporate culture should be treated as a criminal, just as individuals are in this society that break the law. California’s government is being divided and conquered by PG&E. It came out during the SLC hearings that the state water board, which was taken over by the nuclear industry under Schwarzenegger and Brown, allowed a waiver for environmental impacts of Diablo Canyon’s once-through ocean water cooling system until 2025. In addition, as part of the legal case over San Onofre rates, governor Brown could very well be acting outside the law since he, as well as the CPUC, are refusing to share emails between themselves. Whether it is cozy relations between utilities and CPUC, the recent scandal over the Assembly’s Speaker’s Slush fund, the medical Pay to Play scandal, California doesn’t need anymore scandals. SLC has no detailed /ex parte/ regulations as required by the CPUC. We therefore call on SLC, and Gavin Newsom specifically, to submit detailed reports on conversations you, staff or other commissioners have had with all parties and how long said discussions lasted. As mentioned in Newsom’s comments at the end of his presentation, he had had extensive conversations with Stewart Brand, who is very likely not registered as a lobbyist, but should be. *Claim: **A/signed and written agreement that the lost power of Diablo Canyon can only be replaced by a combination of renewable energy and energy efficiencies/*** Mr. Lt. Governor, are you stating for the record that your agency has received an agreement to such affect, or are you referring to the MOU between PG&E and the six parties? Ms. Williams said that agreement constitutes an “unprecedented *voluntary *commitment by a major US energy company”. We applaud the sentiment, but the question remains: why is PG&E waiting until 2018 and 2020 to begin submitting replacement power plans? And wouldn’t this be required in any case since the state has mandated this requirement elsewhere? Holding onto such a large base load source is actually retarding faster development of renewable power. The state of California is in the midst of a major political confrontation concerning how to proceed with solar; PG&E and the other states’ Investor Owned Utilities (IOU’s) are clearly opposed to solar rooftops. They are actively seeking redress via allies within the CPUC, as recently pointed out in an interview with PG&E’s president at the EEI National Convention. Recent reports state that up to 75% of the state’s electric needs could come from solar rooftop power, yet the MOU agreement actively is skewed towards allowing large baseload. Large, centralized solar stations play a dominant role that would undermine the potential for far more jobs, independent of big, corporate money, which could be used to build out rooftop solar. It is now possible for a solar rooftop to be tied to a homeowner’s hot water heater to store heat during its peak production time. *Claim://**/The written public acknowledgement, for the first time, by a major utility corporation that renewable energy is more cost efficient than nuclear power./* On the face of it, this is worth celebrating. But it is clearly way too long in coming. We are all now paying dearly for a boondoggle that has gone on for too long.PG&E came late to the party, yet demands a door prize? In 1992 the majority of the world’s Nobel Peace Prize winners signed a petition stating that we had 20 years to address climate change issues. The United States as a whole and specifically the energy industry made sure that the public failed to understand what that urgency meant. The world’s private energy lobbyists continue to do everything in their power to keep the public uneducated about the growing impacts of climate change and what to do about it. Nuclear power is clearly not the answer, despite claims of being GHG-free, which are false when the entire nuclear fuel chain is considered. Safe, less costly and less complex technologies sit on the shelf and new ones are being developed daily that can do just fine without nuclear, thank you very much. */Claim: /**/The written public acknowledgement, for the first time, by a major utility corporation that the era of baseload power is over, and that renewable sources can carry the weight of energy production./**//* In its position paper, Friends of the Earth openly urges PG&E to use large, centralized solar concentrating stations in the central valley, backed by storage, as a prominent part of its replacement plan. By concentrating solar, much energy security is lost to the threat of grid outages. In addition, centralized solar development is clearly impacting sensitive desert environmental habitat that should not be disturbed. Why concentrate solar production when it is so much more efficient, is environmentally more sensitive and creates more jobs to build solar rooftops? It should be noted that the largest central concentrating station in the country, located in California, was recently saved from bankruptcy, and also incurred major damages from overheating. (It could very well be a matter of corporate arson to cover its failure to operate at the levels promised by designers.) */Claim: /**/A signed and written agreement that PG&E will provide 55% of its entire energy sales through renewable sources, from 2031./**//* As shown in recent studies, the state’s solar industry could easily, in short order, provide 74% of the state’s energy needs (Source: Dept. of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Labs) and is already planning over 22,000 megawatts of power in the next five years, creating far more jobs than Diablo Canyon ever has. Californiaactivists have been pushing for solar and wind development for over 30 years, but have been stymied by IOU’s and fossil fuel interests they represent. These interests are profit driven. IOU’s have long been pushing for large baseload systems while at the same time pushing to break away from their grid and pipeline responsibilities. *Prepared for /Nuclear-Free California/*www.nuclearfreecal.org/nfcnet/ <http://www.nuclearfreecal.org/nfcnet/>*by /Abalone Alliance Safe Energy Clearinghouse/* www.energy-net.org <http://www.energy-net.org/> ** -- Don Eichelberger Abalone Alliance Safe Energy Clearinghouse/ Nuclear Free California Shut down nuclear power www.nuclearfreecal.org/nfcnet/ www.energy-net.org Expose the back room dealer elite at Bohemian Grove www.exposebohemiangrove.net more info at: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/03/01/18708527.php And also: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/07/07/18758353.php Follow at www.Facebook.com/BGANsc Learn about the Evolution of the US Surveillance State https://surveillance1984blog.wordpress.com/ More about me at www.Facebook.com/DonEichelberger Check my original music at www.MySpace.com/donnyfix "The government of an exclusive company of merchants is, perhaps, the worst of all governments for any country whatever." 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