The National Environmental Group Friends of the Earth is slamming San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station's re-start plan in an ad on CNN.
The group purchased a similar ad last year, after the earthquake, tsunami and subsquent nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan refocused attention on the anti-nuclear movement.
The ad asserts that Southern California Edison is gambling with residents' safety. It begins running today on cable TV systems in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties
The plan to restart one of two shuttered reactors is still under review by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and no decision is expected for months.
WITH OUR COUNTRY AWASH IN NATURAL GAS THERE IS NO NEED FOR NUKE POWER OR THE POTENTIAL POISON IT MAY RELEASE. DECOMMISSION THIS HAZARD NOW BEFORE IT’S TO LATE THE CLEAN UP, STORAGE AND DECOMMISSION JOBS, for songs, WILL SUPPLY EMPLOYMENT TO THE SONGS EMPLOYEES AND MORE FOR YEARS TO COME AND WILL BOLSTER OUR LOCAL ECONOMY IN SAN CLEMENT FOR the YEARS TO COME. PLUS THE BUILDING OF A NEW NATURAL GAS POWER PLANT, IS A TRUE jobs ECONOMIC PLAN, NEED and replacement WE CAN ALWAYS GO BACK TO NUKE POWER SOMEDAY WHEN WE DISCOVER HOW TO RENDER IT instantly INERT AND FULLY CLEAN IT UP GEORGE GREGORY
Janice
Carol Jahnkow Shut San Onofre Committee
Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but it appears from the US Energy Information Administration State Electricity Profiles - 2010 Data shown in http://www.eia.gov/electricity/state/california/index.cfm that as it stands with both San Onofre and Diablo Canyon nuclear plants active, California still has a 21% Electrical Energy deficit that it can only make up by buying power from other states, jacking up everyone's prices. CA Electric Net Generation (megawatthours) 204,125,596 Total Retail Sales (megawatthours) 258,525,414 [difference = 21.04%] You have too many NIMBY and BANANA folks that want all the benefits of our acquired lifestyle, with none of the work and choices to maintain it. How many of these activists are either creating their own power or fully off the grid? How many would be willing to invest in solar or wind energy without government subsidies? How many are invested with subsidies? I'm fairly certain that number would be less than the DUI limit! Safety, yes. Stupidity no!