Power plant's opponents hold meeting
Angela De Claro
Issue date: 11/15/07 Section: News
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Anthropology instructor Susan Sperling opened the meeting by expressing her dissatisfaction with the time frame that concerned citizens were given notice of the two power plants.
"I think prima-facie, just on the face of it, the public has not had enough time to discuss this campus…we haven't had enough chance to discuss it, because we are still discussing it," said Sperling.
According to law, a public notice must be put out to notify residents of the proposed plants. The notices went out to the Los Positas campus and to Chabot College's president.
President Robert Carlson was notified about the power plant proposal earlier this year, but has not made any formal comments about the issue and has declined to show up at the last two meetings, Sperling indicated.
After the opening comments, art instructor Diane Zuliani presented information about the two proposed power plants.
The first power plant is the Russell City Energy Center, which is sponsored by Calpine, a company based in San Jose. Calpine's power plant has been changed from a continually run power plant, to a "peaker", which means it will only be turned on twice a day during peak hours.
Russell City Energy City/Calpine will consist of two stacks 145 feet tall, with seven other smaller cooling towers. Even though it will re-circulate some emissions, 40 or more tons of pollutants will be released in the air.
The energy being produced from this site will not benefit any East Bay residents. All the energy goes to neighbors on the San Francisco Peninsula.
The Russell City Energy City received its final approval at the end of October. A time frame of 30 days is given to any formal intervener group that wants to make any legal challenges to the state Supreme Court.
Many citizens are angry about the final approval, because it was approved before most of the community was even aware.
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