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Closing Diablo Canyon would be a great loss for California air quality and grid reliability. To be blunt about it: What are these people thinking?
Well, they aren't thinking. They are kicking the can down the road. My post at Northwest Clean Energy blog, Closing Diablo Canyon a big loss for California, gives an overview of the PG&E agreement with anti-nuclear groups, how they are kicking the can. I encourage you to read it.
What are these people thinking?
The Southern California Grid has a rolling-blackout plan, even now, with Diablo operating. According to the San Diego Union Tribune "natural gas curtailments" could interrupt electricity service for as many as 14 days this summer. Basically, gas supplies are constrained: in California, part of the constraint is the aftermath of the massive Aliso Canyon gas leak.
So, with California ISO considering its rolling black-out planning and gas curtailments, PG&E plans to close Diablo Canyon! How did California get into such a fix, anyway?
Part of the answer is about requiring unrealistic renewable energy standards, and another part is having anti-nuclear groups at the planning table for the agreement, with pro-nuclear groups excluded (unless they are unions).
Well, hey, I'm used to pro-nuclear groups being excluded. When Jaczko met with "citizen volunteer groups" in Brattleboro a few years ago, the Energy Education Project that Howard and I founded was not considered a citizen's group. Howard and I sat in the peanut gallery, not at the table.
The history and the actions
To understand the history of the Diablo Canyon situation, read my post at Northwest Clean Energy Blog. Also, watch quick videos of the California Lands Commission hearing at Rod Adams blog post: Showing Up and Speaking for Diablo Canyon in California.
To learn about actions you can take for Diablo Canyon, go to the Save Diablo Canyon or Californians for Green Nuclear Power websites. These websites have links for donations, signing petitions, and for breaking news. There are several other groups also active for Diablo Canyon. For more links, visit my blog post Diablo Canyon and What To Do About It.
Actions are more important than history.
To learn about actions you can take for Diablo Canyon, go to the Save Diablo Canyon or Californians for Green Nuclear Power websites. These websites have links for donations, signing petitions, and for breaking news. There are several other groups also active for Diablo Canyon. For more links, visit my blog post Diablo Canyon and What To Do About It.
Actions are more important than history.
Good town-crying, Meredith. I wish the Nuclear community more took the media to task about helping to defame nuclear power -- likely irreversible by now by long tardy inaction, even in light that we've NPPs dropping left and right yet there's no central blog for other NPPs in jeopardy to hobnob together for some circle the wagons action legally and politically and educationally. I also don't get this lofty attitude of Californians and Australians and New Zealanders to cluck and crow about how great a moral achievement it is to mankind being "nuclear free" and it seriously needs to crash to earth with some hard mass media education campaigns about the real story and "evils".
ReplyDeleteKeep up the great work!
James Greenidge
Queens NY
James,
ReplyDeleteThank you. I agree, but I hope some progress is being made in defending nuclear energy. There were five pro-nuclear groups involved in the March for Environmental Hope in California. I hope that will become a start.
Meredith