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NorCal Dam Project For Endangered Salmon Begins

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday applauded a Northern California dam improvement project that will help endangered salmon reach their spawning grounds.

PG&E: Corporate Hubris v. Everybody

March 22, 2010 by Anonymous

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Apparently the gloves have come off in the long-standing conflict between PG&E and, well, everyone else.  PG&E has put Proposition 16 -  the "New Two-Thirds Vote Requirement for Local Public Electricity Providers" - onto the June ballot to put an end to these pesky citizens who think they have a right to get greener power if they want to. Silly citizens. Proposition 16 changes the California constitution in a way that virtually guarantees PG&E a permanent monopoly over their current customers. Then PG&E announced they will spend upwards of $35 million (profits extracted from their customers) on ads and public relations professionals to convince us that only PG&E knows what is best for us.  Their hubris is astonishing.

In response of this direct slap on the face from PG&E, the San Francisco City Attorney joined the Modesto Irrigation District and other utlity districts and government agencies on March 18 to file a lawsuit aimed at removing Proposition 16 from the ballot on the grounds that it is "wholly false and misleading."

San Franciscans who want to be able to choose greener power are very familiar with the shadowy power of the PG&E lobby.  CleanPowerSF, a community choice aggregation program has led the most recent effort for power choice.  The effort has been long and tedious, but San Franciscan's are a determined lot.  Now that community choice aggregation is almost a reality in San Francisco, PG&E's Prop 16 threatens to put a huge roadblock in the way, once again.  It's beyond frustrating for advocates of green power (aka the vast majority of San Francisco voters.)

East Bay Firm Develops Smart Light Bulbs

Ever since Thomas Edison invented the incandescent light bulb more than a century ago, the way we illuminate our world has pretty much remained unchanged. Fluorescent lights came along in the 1920s and they haven't changed a whole heck of a lot either.

Berryessa Considered For National Monument

A 100-mile swath of diverse California wilderness spanning six counties between the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento could soon become a national monument.

SFPUC To Raise Crystal Springs Dam Wall

San Francisco utility officials are moving forward with a plan for a face-lift to a to a dam that was built more than a century ago.

Enviros, Growers Agree On Farmland Reuse For Solar

Cash-strapped farmers in California's agricultural heartland and environmentalists at odds over water rights and wildlife protections finally agree on something: that thousands of acres of cracked, salty farmland is the perfect site for a sprawling utility-scale solar farm.

Marin Group Highlights Pollution With Plastic Boat

A group of adventurers and environmental crusaders are setting sail from Sausalito Saturday morning on a catamaran made entirely from recycled materials in order to highlight the problems of pollution in the oceans.

Schwarzenegger Picks Appointees For Delta Council

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday named his selections to a new council overseeing the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Schwarzenegger announced four appointees to the seven-member Delta Stewardship Council: Francis Randall Fiorini, former Democratic state Assemblyman Phil Isenberg, Henry Nordhoff and Richard Roos-Collins.

Scientist Panel Says Calif. Water Limits Justified

Researchers say most restrictions on water deliveries to California's farm belt meant to protect threatened fish can be scientifically justified.

SF Joins Lawsuit To Thwart PG&E-Funded Prop. 16

On Thursday, San Francisco joined a group of California cities and public utilities in a lawsuit to remove a statewide ballot measure they say misleads voters about its true intentions to doom public power.

From Twitter

  • Watching the Green Financing press conference on tv& Internet simultaneously. SF is definitely out front on this. http://ow.ly/1xFH7 — 20 weeks 5 days ago
  • New post: Green Festival This Weekend http://tinyurl.com/y9aar4q — 21 weeks 1 day ago
  • @7genblogger Why isn't there a cellphone app to help navigate mass transit systems?? I think both Nextbus.com and 511.org have cell apps. — 23 weeks 5 days ago
  • New post: PG&E: Corporate Hubris v. Everybody http://tinyurl.com/yexrcvm — 23 weeks 5 days ago
  • RT SFCityAttorney: SF seeks to disqualify PG&E Prop 16 http://bit.ly/prop16suit ; News coverage - http://bit.ly/c8VQb0 — 24 weeks 1 day ago
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