NEWSOM'S "DEAL WITH THE DEVIL" BILL EXEMPTS ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW AND COSTS US $1.4 BILLION
The proposed bill allows for the continued operation of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant well beyond 2025 as unanimously agreed upon in 2016. The draft of this bill includes shortcuts and sweeping exemptions from environmental review from State permitting agencies, with no clear end date
This bill also promises to “loan” PG&E up to $1.4 billion to cover costs of extending Diablo Canyon’s operating life - with all of the loan potentially “forgivable”. It agrees to pay PG&E $7 per every megawatt-hour of power generated which would mean an annual subsidy exceeding $120 million.
Nor does it mention energy efficiency or demand response measures as a potential response to California’s reliability challenges. The findings used to justify these extraordinary provisions include no citations to published studies by any California regulator or agency recommending a further life extension for Diablo Canyon. There are none.
The Devil's deal is based on fearmongering with unsubstantiated threats of costly and even deadly blackouts. None of these same false arguments ever materialized due to the closing of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in 2013.
For these and many more reasons we ask that you honor the solemn agreement signed in 2016 by local residents, labor unions, PG&E, the NRC, the state, environmental groups and others to shut both reactors by 2025, if not sooner.
Updates
August 25, 2022
The lack of transparency surrounding these subsidies remains the most concerning aspect of the current proposal. I am spending my time digging through the financial documents to clarify exactly how much taxpayer money is being handed to a private corporation without any environmental oversight.
August 25, 2022
The growth in support for this petition shows that many of us are deeply concerned about the lack of long-term planning regarding Diablo Canyon. This momentum indicates a clear expectation for transparency and environmental accountability from our state leadership.
Reached 100 supporters
August 25, 2022
57 Comments
Diablo Canyon reaches the end of its useful life in 2025. “Useful life is the amount of time during which something is in good enough condition to be used,” Merriam-Webster. Efforts to extend the useful life of San Onofre resulted in a radioactive leak. Do not make the same mistake with Diablo Canyon.
Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant license should not be extended. It must be shut down before or during 2025. I live in San Luis Obispo County not far from where this plant is located.
I'm VERY frustrated that this was kept from voters prior to your election! Reconsider shifting any Nuclear loans to fund Ocean Desalinization ASAP, Solar and Wind can easily provide Plenty of clean, safe Energy for CA. Time to put some new blood on the CPUC, it still has to many Peavey-type Pro Utility supporters!
It does not make economic sense to keep Diablo Canyon nuclear plant open. To keep it open is to drain funds from the less expensive and truly clean energy sources.
Increase the commitment to safe energy efficiency and demand response measures, not unsafe and expensive nuclear power.
I do ñot want nuclear power. On local media , t is the employed scientists from Diablo who are driving this.
No more nukes
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NEWSOM'S "DEAL WITH THE DEVIL" BILL EXEMPTS ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW AND COSTS US $1.4 BILLION
The proposed bill allows for the continued operation of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant well beyond 2025 as unanimously agreed upon in 2016. The draft of this bill includes shortcuts and sweeping exemptions from environmental review from State permitting agencies, with no clear end date
This bill also promises to “loan” PG&E up to $1.4 billion to cover costs of extending Diablo Canyon’s operating life - with all of the loan potentially “forgivable”. It agrees to pay PG&E $7 per every megawatt-hour of power generated which would mean an annual subsidy exceeding $120 million.
Nor does it mention energy efficiency or demand response measures as a potential response to California’s reliability challenges. The findings used to justify these extraordinary provisions include no citations to published studies by any California regulator or agency recommending a further life extension for Diablo Canyon. There are none.
The Devil's deal is based on fearmongering with unsubstantiated threats of costly and even deadly blackouts. None of these same false arguments ever materialized due to the closing of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in 2013.
For these and many more reasons we ask that you honor the solemn agreement signed in 2016 by local residents, labor unions, PG&E, the NRC, the state, environmental groups and others to shut both reactors by 2025, if not sooner.
Updates
August 25, 2022
The lack of transparency surrounding these subsidies remains the most concerning aspect of the current proposal. I am spending my time digging through the financial documents to clarify exactly how much taxpayer money is being handed to a private corporation without any environmental oversight.
August 25, 2022
The growth in support for this petition shows that many of us are deeply concerned about the lack of long-term planning regarding Diablo Canyon. This momentum indicates a clear expectation for transparency and environmental accountability from our state leadership.
Reached 100 supporters
August 25, 2022
57 Comments
The imagined benefits are FAR outweighed by the verifiable risks, starting with waste material, which cannot be neutralized. This decision is the political equivalent of crossing our fingers and hoping the catastrophe which absolutely can happen somehow just won't.
Diablo Canyon reaches the end of its useful life in 2025. “Useful life is the amount of time during which something is in good enough condition to be used,” Merriam-Webster. Efforts to extend the useful life of San Onofre resulted in a radioactive leak. Do not make the same mistake with Diablo Canyon.
Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant license should not be extended. It must be shut down before or during 2025. I live in San Luis Obispo County not far from where this plant is located.
I'm VERY frustrated that this was kept from voters prior to your election! Reconsider shifting any Nuclear loans to fund Ocean Desalinization ASAP, Solar and Wind can easily provide Plenty of clean, safe Energy for CA. Time to put some new blood on the CPUC, it still has to many Peavey-type Pro Utility supporters!
It does not make economic sense to keep Diablo Canyon nuclear plant open. To keep it open is to drain funds from the less expensive and truly clean energy sources.
Increase the commitment to safe energy efficiency and demand response measures, not unsafe and expensive nuclear power.
I do ñot want nuclear power. On local media , t is the employed scientists from Diablo who are driving this.
No more nukes
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The imagined benefits are FAR outweighed by the verifiable risks, starting with waste material, which cannot be neutralized. This decision is the political equivalent of crossing our fingers and hoping the catastrophe which absolutely can happen somehow just won't.