Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 00:28:57 -0800 From: Joe & Paula Hawkins {hawk@california.com} Reply-To: hawk@california.com Organization: Community Health First X-Accept-Language: en To: Bob Aldrich {baldrich@energy.state.ca.us}, CEC {prichins@energy.state.ca.us}, CEC Docket {Docket@energy.state.ca.us}, CEC Staff {Sgefter@energy.state.ca.us}, CEC Staff Priscilla Ross {Pross@energy.state.ca.us}, "Public Advisor's Office" {PAO@energy.state.ca.us}, State Attorney General {piu@hdcdojnet.state.ca.us}, dockets@energy.state.ca.us CC: BAAQMD {djang@baaqmd.gov}, "Buchanan, Douglas" {dbuchana@ben.bechtel.com}, Calpine ? {Maurah@calpine.com}, Calpine ?? {Bryan@calpine.com}, CAP-IT {CapItDelta@aol.com}, Celeste Ward {cward@cctimes.com}, Denis Cuff {dcuff@cctimes.com}, EPA {chin.willard@epamail.epa.gov}, EPA Inspector General {hotline.oig@epamail.epa.gov}, EPA Justice {environmental-justice-epa@epamail.epa.gov}, Gary Rubenstein {GRubenstein@SierraResearch.com}, Intevenor? {Jdh@eslawfirm.com}, "jeff.wade@lmco.com" {jeff.wade@lmco.com}, Jim MacDonald {jmacdonald@pittsburg.k12.ca.us}, "Kate S. Poole" {kpoole@adamsbroadwell.com}, LeRoy {CaTreeman@aol.com}, Linda-Environment {SOCLAASY@aol.com}, Mike Boyd again {mboyd@qp-labs.com}, Mike Boyd Calif for Renewable Energy {mike_e_boyd@hotmail.com}, Mike Liedtke {mliedtke@cctimes.com}, "Public Assist. Officer" {RCMendonca@aol.com}, Senat {Senator.OConnell@SEN.CA.GOV}, Senato {Senator.Sher@SEN.CA.GOV}, Senator {mike.potter@SEN.CA.GOV}, "STaction@aol.com" {STaction@aol.com}, Susan {strachan@dcn.davis.ca.us}, Tim {ttyler@cctimes.com} Subject: 98-AFC-3 Response again. X-Priority: 1 (Highest) Also For the Record. In response to my requests for proof that the community was notified of these plants CALPINE responded and gave me evidence that shows they advertised this Natural Gas Fired Power Plant as clean energy. That is fraudulently false advertising to the greatest degree. This plant is the next generation of filth and you are putting it in a already filthy area due to the over pollution causing industrialization of this area. The Energy Commission also as in the record from their proof they sent me know that they did not really give but a couple of minor notifications to this community. I still ask people and they do not know about either Power plant being build. I even ask business owners who have no knowledge of this until I approach them. The CEC has the responsibility to make sure the community was properly notified. This community was not in both 98-AFC-1 and 98-AFC-3. Also the fact that upon searching the CEC's web site I noticed that the CEC is calling polluting industries that use Natural Gas as Green Energy with the green flowery leaf symbol. The CEC is promoting pollution also and calling it green energy: http://www.energy.ca.gov/greenpower/providers.html Above you say green for only 50% renewable. The problem is that renewable should be only non-polluting with the green sign. Not a polluting form of non-renewable. And it should only have that symbol if it is 100% renewable. Not no 50%. That is falsely giving them a advantage that they have not earned. Glean -N- Green is suppose to be 100% renewable yet I do not see that symbol next to their name. Why is that. Did they not pay your extortion money or what ever you wanted of them? I am curious as to why they do not have that symbol? How many others have you pulled that on also? This is what I mean by rail roading. This type of project like 98-AFC-1 & 3 should only be allowed by the voters not the CEC or the City Council and ect... . If it was given the vote I can guarantee you it would never make it. In the fact that the CEC is allowing the false advertising of this power plant to be over looked also. See you in court. As for alternatives. The CEC said I did not present any. Wrong, they where just ignored as everything else I presented was. Why was not geothermal used for a alternative as it produces both steam and electricity and is not as polluting. Or as I previously pointed out. Use the thermal portion of the suns spectrum to produce steam & electricity and use Wind and Solar for the rest of the power requirements. That is completely non-polluting and makes for a far better alternative for the community as it provides far more jobs than the filthy crude you are slamming down our throats in the guise of clean energy. And the few jobs that it will provide in the long run. We are already over polluted. We do not need your filth. I am speaking to you. The CEC since you made the decision and ignored our evidence and would not even allow a lot of it. In going through the record on your sight I see that a lot of the stuff I sent to you was never entered. Period. My original documents where not there. Only the Amendments and they are not complete as they left out a lot of the original information. The PAO helped me reformat it so you can understand it. I will not be reformatting it again and in the future. See you on the Southern AFC request also. To much was left out and I thought the original would still be in the record and displayed. It was not. You replaced it rather than amend it. You have again messed with the record. So if something is missing I am still going after you as I kept record of it on removable storage. You are not getting away with nothing. You do not like me than even the way I was pulled into this process was a rail roading job. You had me go through the Public Assistance Officer to speak up and I was made a intervener not even realizing what the world it meant. No one told me this stuff dragged out for months and that even when you present your evidence and information you where going to be ignored by a bunch of pompous punks. If that was the case I would not have wasted my time either as the rest of this community learned a long time ago. Why do you think know one here tries to get involved? Because of the bull you guys pull on them. This community is already whipped and so is the local media. You have polluting industry in this county running amuck and rough shod on this whole county. They pollute and only get fined a measly few thousand here and there while we end up ill and with long term irreparable damage to our systems and bodies. Even the laws have no teeth. It is OK to kill thousands with slow death as long as you pay your fines. That is the message everyone has learned already. Now it is OK to bring in more pollution because no one has the time or energy to fight us. We can do as we please, we will just declare ourselves the ultimate law concerning these issues and ignore everyone else. That is what you, the CEC, have done. We can take a Poor, Minority Community and declare it not one. That is what you also have done. We can not allow the Intervenor's expert witnesses that are even more expert than the applicants. You did that to Mike Boyd's Witness on Nov. 18th, 1999. We can ignore health information and facts because we do not care. That is obvious from your responses and your actions thus far. We can say that everything else the intervenor's present does not pertain to this case. You minimize everything and as in my case take it and try to say it was for a different situation where as it was not. Dr. Golomb was speaking about multiple chemicals at that time. Besides I presented way more than just her testimony. You overlooked it all. You minimized it all so you can live with that. I want you to live here with this that you are jamming down our throats. How about if we put a few power plants this size next to your home plus a bunch of smaller ones like we have here. How about if we put a refinery about 10 miles up wind from your home and two super large and dangerous chemical plants within five miles of your home on both sides of you just like the one in Bay Point and Dow in Pittsburg, which are known to be deadly in a accident up to easily 25 miles around them. But before we do that to your home let us get some plants into the local government and into the local judicial system and lets fund all the politicians there and donate money to all the non-profit organizations. Do not worry though, we have a medical community here that knows how to handle it. When you get ill they will just tell you it is all in your head or you must be under to much stress. Take these drugs and you will be fine if you can remember your name afterwards. Oh, and do not worry, these chemicals are safe, they are organic. They can not harm you. After you end up in the hospital from the medications because of a reaction to more chemicals, do not worry. We will just let you figure it out on your own because we can not figure out what is wrong with you. Yea this community has a real well trained medical staff. They can fix a broken leg or deliver a baby easily. But you can be guaranteed they are not going to tell you you are chemically injured. It is their job at stack if they say that. This area sees all kinds of injury and cancer is the highest of the whole US in your community now. So do not worry if we put all this junk in your neighborhood. You will be fine. In fact you can put your head in the stacks and breath the air. It will not hurt you. The air is already worse than what will be coming out of these stacks in your neighborhood. Do not worry, we have a whole staff of experts who agree your air is safe of course we never heard of xenobiotic's but you are safe. We take each chemical and add up its effects and it is well below the danger levels. We modeled your existing air from the studies made to pass the EPA and State Air Quality Standards. By the way we will not be putting in a monitor in your area because it would reflect to air pollution caused by the already existing industry. No, we are going to move it up wind and out of the existing air pollution so that we can see the effects. Do not worry though, it will not read what is in your neighborhood. Beside if you complain we will just consider you NIMBY or we will say you are only worried about your own health. No one will listen to you. We do not care if you are not a ex-con and have lived obeying the law for all these years and that you worked hard most your life and paid your taxes until you where chemically injured. We think you no nothing and so we will treat you as if you do not know anything. But do not worry, your community is safe. You only get gassed about once a week by industry but it is not to bad and since the Air district did not go out and confirm it your air is fine according to their once every 6 to 12 day studies. Depending on how they feel. By the way they warned the industry a couple days in advance that they are taking readings, so you can be assured that the air is going to be just peachy keen fine in your community. Oh and do not believe the EPA when they found over 6,000 leaky valves up wind from the refineries. Why the same air district that checked it not even long before the EPA only found a small number of a little over a hundred leaky valves. They can not explain why the EPA found so many right after they checked them out. So do not worry about that, you are fine. The EPA is just on a witch hunt and please ignore all the other environmental groups that say the air district is non-environmental, they are just trying to get attention. Oh and we have a commission that is looking out for your best interest. They only passed almost every power plant proposed but they are for the people and their first responsibility is the environmental laws and the peoples health. You have nothing to worry about when we plant these new power plants in your neighborhood. Not to mention the other one and the other industry we have planned to be brought into your community. They are all safe they burn clean energy, Natural Gas. Ignore the fact that natural gas is already the cause of thousands of deaths a year nation wide. Those people should have put their heads into the stacks of those hot water heaters and they would have breathed fine. Besides your City Council is all for Natural Gas, they even went in on a power plant bought with the city's money. They believe in this stuff. Everything is just fine, trust me. I think you get the picture I presented above. That is the kind of bull you people are trying to say to the community here. You think this is going to be it. You are wrong. I want this on the record as it stands so people can get a real picture of the lies your organizations are presenting to them. Joe Hawkins "Community Health, Is Environmental First" - "CHIEF"