Coastal Alliance on Plant Expansion

A new state policy aimed at requiring coastal power plants to stop using a continual flow of sea water for cooling and replacing it with a closed-cycle technology that would end the killing of tens of billions of fish and larvae fails to comply with new federal law because it would not begin to be [...]

After years of sharply-reduced use and partial retirement, the 54-year-old Morro Bay Power Plant will be shut down for good in a few years, and no new replacement plant can be built, under just-revealed plans of the owner and a proposed new state policy prohibiting the plant’s continued use of water from the Morro Bay [...]

CAPE  believes strongly that any extension of the outfall lease to allow operation of the Morro Bay Power Plant with once-through cooling would be counterproductive both environmentally and economically and would not be in the best interests of residents and taxpayers, whose health and property values as well as businesses could be negatively impacted.
Risk to [...]

By Jack McCurdy, co-president, Coastal Alliance on Plant Expansion
For more than 50 years, power plants have been drawing sea water from bays, estuaries and the ocean to cool their electrical generators, killing “billions of aquatic organisms, including fishes, fish larvae and eggs, crustaceans, shellfish and many other forms of aquatic life from California waters each [...]

To: Rep. Lois Capps
From: CAPE
Subject: Air quality permit for new power plant in Morro Bay
Dear Rep. Capps:
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last October conducted a hearing in Morro Bay on a federal air permit sought by the owner of the existing Morro Bay Power Plant, who has indicated an intent to seek approval for a [...]

Comments on Proposed PSD, to LSP Morro Bay LLC
Morro Bay Power Plant Modernization Project
Permit NO. SCC 2005-01
On behalf of the many members of the San Luis Bay Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation (SLB Surfrider), thank you for the opportunity to submit comments regarding the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) [...]

Did you know that you and your family are within reach of toxic emissions that come from the Morro Bay Power Plant–that they may have long lifetimes in the atmosphere and travel hundreds to thousands of kilometers, according to a state agency?
Yes, the existing plant has been running very little for the past three or [...]

All residents from Arroyo Grande to Paso Robles and Morro Bay to San Luis Obispo, including Los Osos, are urged to speak out against exposure of the public to toxic emissions from a proposed new Morro Bay power plant. This affects all of us and our elderly and our children, whose health is most in [...]

Potential Impacts of the Proposed New Morro Bay Power Plant
Bonita Churney and Pamela Soderbeck – January, 2002
The adverse health impacts resulting from small increases in concentrations of the worst pollutant, particulate matter (PM), are quite significant. These effects are especially severe in infants and children. Although the proposed new Morro Bay Power Plant (MBPP) will have reduced [...]

Mortality Displacement and Absence of Threshold: Issues Relating to the Proposed New Morro Bay Power Plant
Bonita Churney and Pamela Soderbeck – December 2001
The adverse health impacts resulting from even small increases in ambient concentrations of inhalable particulate matter (PM10) are quite significant and widely documented by public health professionals. These effects are particularly significant for [...]

For people living outside of Morro Bay, the power plant may seem far enough away that it’s needless to worry about breathing toxic emissions from its smokestacks. But think again.
If you’ve been listening at all over the last six years, since Duke Energy filed the present application to build a new plant with the state, [...]

In a laudable spirit of full disclosure, the Scenic Coast Association of Realtors for some years has voluntarily included this statement with offers that buyers make on properties in the area: “Within Diablo Canyon Nuclear Emergency Response Zone.”
The obvious implication is that the Diablo Nuclear Power Plant poses some potential, undefined threat to safety of [...]

Animal study reveals tiny particles in the air are even more damaging when coupled with a high-fat diet       
New York, December 20, 2005—New York University School of Medicine researchers provide some of the most compelling evidence yet that long-term exposure to air pollution—even at levels within federal standards—causes heart disease. Previous studies have linked [...]

USA Today; Arlington; Apr 12, 2000; Traci Watson
ATLANTA — Even relatively low levels of the miniscule air pollutant known as particulates raise the risk of death and serious illness, says a study that examined the link between dirty air and health in 90 of the largest U.S. cities.
The study was released here Tuesday at the [...]

A thorough and accurate analysis of all pollutants will ‘not allow issuance of a permit for the MBPP project’
The Coastal Alliance on Plant Expansion (“CAPE”) hereby provides the following comments on the above-referenced Proposed Permit and AAQIR, which are endorsed by the individuals who are resident, own property or working in the area most affected [...]