Help Close the Potrero Power Plant
4 May 2006
The California Regional Water Quality Control Board votes whether or not to grant the Potrero Plant a five-year National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit on Wed, May 10.
If you’d like a ride to the meeting (plus complimentary coffee and pastries) meet at Klein’s Deli (501 Connecticut St.) at 8:15 am on May 10th.
Word on the street is that it’s the best opportunity in the past few years to shut down the Power Plant.
Please attend the California Regional Water Quality Control Board meeting to oppose the Board staff’s proposal to grant the Potrero Power Plant a five-year National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit. The plant’s “one-through” cooling system is harmful to the Bay. What’s more, the California Independent System Operator, City and County of San Francisco, and community groups have agreed that that plant should close as a condition to site the City’s three combustion turbines in the Dogpatch neighborhood. A five-year permit would breathe new life into an inefficient and polluting power plant that should be closed.
May 10, 9 am, Auditorium, Elihu Harris State Building, 1515 Clay Street, Oakland
Please RSVP to Steven Moss, San Francisco Community Power, 415.643.9578
Photo by Pete Geniellia
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This proposed permit is the worst possible scenario for our bay. The RWQCB has options availiable to them to help reduce the needless destruction of our bay habitat. The voice of the concerned citizens need to be heard at this meeting. Come and show your support. Together we can help to close this unnecessary and destructive plant in our backyard.
Just remember what you’re doing here the next time you have to deal with (and will inevitably complain about) the next wave of rolling blackouts.
[Out of Towner] Well, actually the closure of the plant would not affect power to the city as the existing plant would not be shuttered until the 3 Combustion Turbines are brought online, and the ISO releases Mirant from their obligation.
We don’t need the 3 CT’s AND the Potrero Hill Power Plant.
It is so incredibly frustrating that these are scheduled during the day when people have to work. Any alternative way to be heard on this if you can make it in person?
Rolling blackouts were a creation of Enron and their illegal practices, read a newspaper sometime. There was no power “shortage” only greed on behalf of those who manipulated its supply.
Californians want and deserve cleaner, cheaper and better power that they have the right to control.
Dear Out of Towner: Old technology power plants in the middle of densely populated cities are not the greatest idea in the world. In fact, they’re stupid and poisonous, and we hope are just a really bad relic of the 20th century like much of what we’re seeing with our federal government at the moment.
What I want to see is a beautifully designed set of solar panels on every rooftop on Potrero Hill, where the sun shines all year long, and less dumb reactionaries who cling to the less charming details of the way things used to be.
How did the meeting go?