From: Nina Babiarz
To: Clerk of Board
Cc: Charles Langley
Subject: #15 Board package item-Elect to accept Community Power’s allocation from PG&E of “GHG-Free attributes” from Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant
Date: Tuesday, December 10, 2024 2:15:07 PM
Attachments: Nina Babiarz.vcf
Importance: High
You don't often get email from [email protected]. Learn why this is important Greetings San Diego Power Board, Regarding the: “Recommendation: Elect to accept Community Power’s allocation from PG&E of “GHG-Free attributes” from Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant for 2025 through 2030 and authorize the Chief Executive Officer to execute the associated transaction confirmations via annual allocation processes, or as otherwise required.”
PLEASE take note of Board Package Agenda on Page 149 the following quote:
“Community Power, by accepting the PG&E DCPP allocation of GHG-free nuclear generation for calendar year 2025, could forgo purchasing GHG-free large hydro generation.”
1. This statement is the first to finally answer my question from the very beginning as to how PG&E is defining “GHG-Free attributes”; PG&E defines it as: GHG-free nuclear generation.
2. Since PG&E ‘’attributes’ are GHG-free nuclear generation this is incongruent and intentionally misleading terminology by PG&E.
3. Nuclear generation, which includes the storage and eventual disposal of radioactive nuclear waste that remains radioactive for 250,000 years, can NEVER be considered or defined as Green House Gas-Free!
4. Accordingly, the Board package that included the ‘Background’ regarding the 2022 Legislation that passed SB 846 indicted that:
a. The primary rationale for the Diablo Canyon extension is “to ensure reliability of the California electricity grid in the wake of the August 2020 extreme heat events that resulted in rotating outages.”
b. The advent of excessive solar power generation has been so prolific that the state of California is now actually selling its excess solar generation to other states. c. Therefore, I contend that: the ‘primary rationale’ that was used in 2020: “ to ensure reliability of the California electricity grid in the wake of the August 2020 extreme heat events that resulted in rotating outages.” has become outdated and no longer relevant regarding the “the (Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant) extension (that) is intended to meet statewide reliability needs…”
5. Furthermore, the appeal based on Dr. Peter Bird’s seismic evaluations filed by Mothers for Peace’s Attorney Diane Curran is currently still under consideration by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). It may pay be prudent and wait to see if the NRC grants the appeal.
6. Finally, San Diego Power CCA needs not forget that PG&E is a convicted Felon (8 people dead in San Bruno gas explosion + another 85 people dead in Paradise fire) who, according to the judge who convicted PG&E violated their parole – not Once but Twice!
7. PG&E’s motivation for drafting a MOU for compensation to your CCA is deceptive because nuclear generation is NEVER considered Green-House-Gas Free! Respectfully yours,
From: Charles Langley
To: Clerk of Board
Subject: Comments, Re: Agenda Item 15, Accepting GHG Attributes from PG&E Date: Thursday, December 12, 2024 5:24:48 PM
You don't often get email from [email protected]. Learn why this is important Dear Clerk of the Board,
Please accept my comments for this evening's meeting.
I’m Charles Langley, the executive director of Public Watchdogs. I am here to address Agenda Item #15 Accepting GHG-Free attributes from PG&E’s Diablo Canyon.
To be clear, the so-called “attribute” is nuclear power. Nuclear Power may be GHG-free, but the waste from it is highly radioactive and it is not clean or green. It is the filthiest stuff on earth.
Now forget, for a moment, that this is the same energy source that caused Chernobyl, Fukushima, and Three-Mile Island, but remember this: The sole purpose of nuclear power was to create spent nuclear fuel to make bombs, missiles, and the radioactive bullets used by the military. It is literally a death machine, and electricity is simply a byproduct.
So how deadly is it? The plutonium in nuclear waste stays radioactive for 250,000 years. Spent Uranium is radioactive for millions of years and is deadly to all human life for tens of thousands years.
That’s what you are supporting if you accept this "deal.” It is a nuclear death machine and a curse upon your children and tens of thousands of future generations.
Thank you
Charles Langley, Executive Director
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