The Coast News, August 23, 2019

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them and have high earthquake risk. “It’s critically important that we get the waste at San Onofre off of our beach, away from fault lines and millions of nearby residents,” said Levin in a statement provided to The Coast News. Nuclear waste is the federal government’s responsibility, yet it still doesn’t have a permanent

CARLSBAD — Community Choice Energy in Carlsbad is one step closer to a reality. The City Council approved a joint powers authority formation and governance analysis report during its Aug. 20 meeting. As a condition, the council also approved a peer review of the RANCHO feasibility study. SFNEWS The city subcommittee of Mayor Matt Hall and Councilwoman Cori Schumacher also recommended to include the cities of Encinitas and Del Mar. Encinitas discussed its position in the JPA during its Aug. 21 City Council meeting, while Del Mar will not take up the matter until the first week of September, according to Jason Haber, Carlsbad’s assistant to the city manager. “One of the key shifts was from SDG&E, the utility is focusing on delivery energy and removing itself from supplying energy,” he said of San Diego Gas & Electric’s public position of being a power supply and the growth of CCEs. Also known as Community Choice Aggregate, the governance analysis laid out for the new JPA includes provision to ensure local control, a one-city, one-vote structure and beginning the first steps of an implementation plan to submit to the California Public Utilities Commission.

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HIGHER POWER WINS PACIFIC CLASSIC

Racehorse Higher Power, ridden by jockey Flavien Prat, earned a 5 1/4-length victory in the TVG Pacific Classic at the Del Mar Racetrack on Aug. 17. The race boasted a $1 million total purse — the largest of the Del Mar summer racing season. Photo by Abraham Jewett

Political pressure to remove nuclear waste builds By Samantha Taylor

REGION — California Sen. Patricia Bates (R-Laguna Niguel) wants spent nuclear fuel out of the 36th district as soon as possible. Bates, together with Sen. Bill Monning (D-Carmel), introduced a resolution in Sacramento last week urging the United States Congress and President Donald Trump to approve legislation that would prioritize removing spent nuclear fuel from

decommissioned nuclear plants in areas with large populations and high seismic risks. Specifically, the legislation targets sites like the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), located within Bates’ district. Monning has the currently operating Diablo Canyon Power Plant in his district. Together, their resolution urges the passage of U.S. Rep. Mike Levin’s

(D-San Juan Capistrano) Spent Fuel Prioritization Act of 2019. The goal is to hasten the process of removing California’s nuclear waste, particularly from San Onofre, and take it to “safer locations.” Levin announced he was introducing the bill back in April at SONGS immediately after touring the facility. The bill is now waiting on a markup by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce after the

committee held a hearing on the bill in June. As previously reported, the bill would require the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to consider three criteria when selecting sites to remove spent nuclear fuel from first, and then transport that fuel to either an interim or permanent storage facility. The three criteria give priority to sites that are decommissioned, have high population densities surrounding

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