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Haiku - A - Day
☯ I just write Haiku Seems that is all I can do Hope that's good enough— November 1, 2012 10:24 a.m.
UCAN head quits after 10 days; Langley out, too
SurfPuppy619 Check your mail, we can do this and get the ratepayers to LOVE US at the same time...— October 24, 2012 12:39 p.m.
UCAN head quits after 10 days; Langley out, too
These Boards need real people on them that promote for the ratepayers instead of themselves... With the Media in SD being dumbed down thanks to Baron Manchester, SD ratepayers need all the honest help they can get! The ideal way to pay Board Members is by a small set amount, say $500 per week and then give them a tiny percentage of what they save rate payers as a performance bonus...— October 22, 2012 3:41 p.m.
UCAN head quits after 10 days; Langley out, too
I'll do it if you help me...— October 22, 2012 3:36 p.m.
UCAN head quits after 10 days; Langley out, too
Time for what is left of UCAN to hand the "keys" over to a new group that will respect the Brown Act and start promoting for rate payers instead of themselves... Perhaps Don Bauder will post the contact info about who to talk to and lets get UCAN working again for SD's rate Payers ASAP, we cannot afford to allow SDG&E or SCE get away with a 1.2 Billion Dollar Debacle while the ***OLD UCAN*** Board gets investigated! Now is the perfect time for a few of US to stand up for energy equality!— October 19, 2012 11:46 a.m.
UCAN: Misspelled Accounts Add Up
I'd like to ask what it would take for a new group, with a new board to take over the "duties" of UCAN and start to really promote for rate payers instead of themselves? SDG&E must be ROTFL now because UCAN is so dysfunctional! I also agree that the SORE (San Onofre Reactor Emergency) should not be restarted since CA has a 40% energy surplus without either SanO or El Diablo in operation! It just does not make any sense to take any chances just to have SCE's shareholders make a profit?— October 18, 2012 10:31 a.m.
UCAN: Misspelled Accounts Add Up
Kudos to Don Bauder for all this information! This could not come at a worse time for ratepayers since SCE/SDG&E are in the middle of a 1.2 Billion Dollar rip off of ratepayers because of SCE's SORE (San Onofre Reactor Emergency) Debacle! More on the CPUC Investigation here: http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/oct/17/cpuc-r… by UT/Morgan Lee snip State utility regulators are preparing a possible investigation in to whether Southern California utilities can continue to bill customers for a nuclear plant that has not produced electricity for nearly nine months. The San Francisco-based California Public Utilities Commission on Tuesday published a draft investigation order regarding the idled San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. **It will take up the matter at a public meeting Oct. 25 in Irvine.** Bolding added! Under the proposed investigation order, regulators would consider whether or not a utility rate reduction should be made and, if so, when and to what extent. Customers of San Diego Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison are paying about $835 million a year for the operation, maintenance and capital costs at San Onofre. and The full DRAFT investigation Order here: http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Published/G… many more of the ***San Onofre Papers***, here: https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0BweZ3c0aFXcFZGp…— October 17, 2012 1:21 p.m.
Haiku - A - Day
☯ Liftport is the *WAY* To transition into Space Without pollution— October 16, 2012 8 a.m.
North Park Could Blend with East San Diego
Question for Elizabeth Salaam: What does this story about **City Heights** have to with **North Park**? Maybe this sounds better: ***Kensington Blends into La Mesa and El Cajon...*** RE: The traffic, a small business that is not open at night is far more "Neighborhood friendly that an apartment building where people are coming and going at all hours while taking up much of the "on street" parking... I bet my description is closer to reality than any of the City Planners would like to admit, I know because I saw it happen in North Park...— October 10, 2012 2:05 p.m.
Group to Ask for Full Disclosure on San Onofre
This is just the beginning of what will become the biggest Nuclear debacle in the USA!! The NRC meeting this evening at Dana Point, CA will no doubt see many from the Union speak against **N☢T** restarting SanO (as many locals call San Onofre) but the fact is that **CA now has at least a 40% energy surplus that it can draw upon (should we need additional Energy) without either San Onofre or El Diablo's nuclear reactors!** So the question becomes why take any chance of a Trillion Dollar Eco-Disaster like Fukushima just so the SCE shareholders can make a profit? SCE's engineers *shot themselves in the foot* by trying to sneak a major redesign of the Replacement Steam Generators (RSG's) by the NRC by telling them it was a *like for like* exchange when it was not, to prevent a lengthy design review by the NRC. This would have cost SCE big bucks in delaying restarting the reactor but when they did restart the reactor, their design failures started to cause the steam generator tubes (SGT's) that carry the highly radioactive, super hot, high pressure steam to vibrate and rub against each other, causing what is known in the industry as *fretting wear*... At the June 18, 2012 AIT presentation, the NRC said, *“Throughout the US nuclear industry, this is the first time more than one steam generator tube failed pressure testing…. Eight tubes failed. The pressure testing identified that the strength of eight tubes was not adequate and structural integrity might not be maintained during an accident… this is a serious safety issue.”*— October 9, 2012 6:39 a.m.