After voting to ditch the Orange County Power Authority in May, Surf City leaders are opting residents into the lowest renewable energy plan – arguing it will save costs for their planned exit.
Tag: Southern California Edison
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Dobken: Anti-Nuclear Activists are a Key Reason for Nuclear’s Increasing Popularity
The anti-nuclear activist movement continues to lose favor with the public by not presenting factual information about nuclear energy and spent nuclear fuel. John Dobken, public information officer at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), explains how a recent op-ed misled readers by omitting facts, and in some cases, getting the science completely wrong.
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Mosko: Southern California Edison Obfuscates to Hide Risks of Nuclear Energy
Professor emeritus Roger Johnson’s op-ed posted May 27 agues the need for study of cancer risks in communities near San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station and other nuclear energy plants nationwide. Southern California Edison’s rebuttal uses tricks (called obfuscation), not facts, at every turn to confuse and lull the public into a false sense of safety about nuclear power and its deadly waste.
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Dobken: Misinformation about Nuclear Doesn’t Serve the Public Interest
Despite our access to facts and data, and a review of history, anti-nuclear activists continue to spread misinformation about nuclear energy and radiation science. This practice does not serve the public interest, particularly as we face the existential threat of climate change.
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OC Residents Face Electricity Price Hike After Clean Power Agency Picks Preliminary Rates
While public officials promised a lower price than Edison for years, officials were barely able to offer a plan that broke even with Edison’s rates.
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Ziegler: The Oil Spill is Bad. So is Deadly Contamination You Can’t See or Smell
On the topic of environmental disasters, could you imagine trying to deal with contamination from a far deadlier kind of waste that you can’t see or smell and that remains toxic for hundreds of thousands of years? The oil spill has us thinking about the state of nuclear waste safety.
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Mosko: More Nuclear is No Solution to Climate Crisis
No one has figured out how to safely dispose of deadly nuclear waste. Yet, to combat the climate crisis, the United States and the world propose to create more of it by extending the life of existing nuclear power plants and building new ones. Has the world learned nothing from the catastrophes of Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima?
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Buena Park Asks Residents if The City Should Stay in Orange County’s New Renewable Energy Agency
Next week elected officials will decide if the city will remain in the county’s newly-minted community choice energy program.
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How Many Cities Will Remain in Orange County’s New Renewable Energy Agency?
Lake Forest was the first to leave and Buena Park may be leaving also.
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Stockstill: Heat Storm Memories
The recent Texas power shortage was caused by freezing temperatures, but here in California we are more likely to experience power loss due to excessive heat. Such was the case more than 20 years ago in the San Gabriel Valley when a shortage of critical electrical infrastructure threatened to take down hospitals, homes and a sanitation plant.
