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.
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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) [...]

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 [...]

The Coastal Alliance on Plant Expansion (CAPE) opposes a federal air quality permit for a proposed new Morro Bay Power Plant because the permit is deeply flawed, fails to provide vital data on the amount of toxic emissions that would be released by its smokestacks and would expose people to an increase in ground-level concentrations [...]

The Coastal Alliance on Plant Expansion (CAPE), a nonprofit community group that has participated in the regulatory review of Duke Energy’s plans to build a new plant in Morro Bay for six years, believes that the announced pending sale of the existing plant presents a great opportunity to consider other options for use of the [...]

A protest was filed March 15 by CAPE with the California Public Utilities Commission yesterday to block a likely-illegal new contract between Duke Energy and PG&E for sale of electricity from the Duke-owned existing Morro Bay Power Plant, unless the contract is opened to the public to determine what impacts it may have on the [...]