Posted on 12/21/2010 10:31:33 AM PST by wac3rd
San Francisco's last fossil fuel power plant will start the new year by shutting down. The Potrero Hill plant, one of the dirtiest in California, will cease operations on Jan. 1, state officials are expected to announce today.
The plant, operated by Houston-based GenOn Energy Inc., formerly Mirant Corp., could be fired up in the event of a dramatic power emergency before being decommissioned permanently on Feb. 28, officials said.
"Cross your fingers," said Yakout Mansour, president of the California Independent System Operator, which oversees the state power grid. "It would have to be something very significant for us to need the plant."
The impending closure comes after bruising political infighting at City Hall and is a clear victory for residents of the oft-neglected southeast corner of the city. Many residents there suffer from disproportionately high rates of cancer, asthma and other health problems. Some have fought for more than a decade to shut down the plant, which sits between the waterfront and a residential neighborhood. It burned diesel and natural gas.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Oh, and there are 64 lifetime, unionized city workers in the Department of the Environment. Who knew?
The keyword "sustainable" continues to crop up with the Progressives (Marxists) which mean we need to be riding trains, bicycles or walking from our small government-subsidized apartment (LEEDS-certified) to our unionized, eternal government job...with ObamaCare and Michelle's salad bars, things will be great!
SF doesn't need that water, anyway!
” Many residents there suffer from disproportionately high rates of cancer, asthma and other health problems.”
Of course there is no evidence that a powerplant has anything to do with this.
I hope the lights go out in San Francisco. No power to water pumps and sewage plants as well. Let the city stew in its own refuse, it’s all for the sake of being green. The Greenies truly believe that “Humanity is a virus infecting the Earth Mother Goddess Gaia”, so why don’t they do a Jonestown? Jim Jones originally set of shop in San Francisco.
“dirtiest”?
When did push-templates become fact?
I was going to post the obvious Liberal slant in the article that makes the casual reader say, “See, it was hurting those poor, poor people, it’s good we shut it down. The paper says it was making people sick (see Harry Reid) and it’s bad for the environment.”
The premise is a lie, the reason is faulty and the outcomes are uncertain, at best, but keep repeating the same obvious falsehoods, it becomes truth. Goebbels is here.
“When the lights go out in New York City (or SF) you will know that we have won.” John Galt-Atlas Shrugs, 1957
There’s a sweet photo of Jim Jones, Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown and Harvey Milk...not to mention Diane Fenistein, George Moscone, Willie Brown and Roselyn Carter, the First Lady praising the Rev. Jones.
Won't be fun for them when they can't charge their electric cars and get to work. When they complain, tell them to use their bikes.
Unfortunately, it will be too late when it really happens. And they be complaining about how the power companies are ripping them off. Remember the rolling brownouts? Obviously, they don't.
I moving to SF to open a home treadmill power generator store.
Of course not, it would be too realistic for the Marxist lies perpetrated daily by the dying Commie rag, the SF Chronicle.
I wonder what they are going to do when they have brown outs and black outs? Throw a party?
San Antonio, Texas plans to shutter two power plants by 2020.
It’s the 20/20/20 by 2020 UN/EU plan.
America chooses to go the same road as Rome, except it will be a green road....
My vote is to remove CA from the multi-state electrical grid and let them be “self-sufficient”.
A$$hats.
Bull
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