CAPSLO’s Dee Torres Sues Investigator, Others for Defamation
Dee Torres, Director of Homeless Services for the Community Action Partnership of San Luis Obispo (CAPSLO), filed suit on March 21 against Atascadero-based private investigator Michael Brennler and as-yet-unnamed others for defamation.
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Lois Capps Pushes for Diablo Seismic Test in Washington; Seismologist Disputes Claim
Congresswoman Lois Capps (D-24th District) emphatically restated her support for a PG&E offshore high-energy seismic survey in Estero Bay, near the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant in Avila Beach, during a January 28 hearing in Washington of the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
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SEISMIC SHAKINGS: CPUC Won’t Pursue Testing This Year; Navy Tests Torpedoed
The 3D seismic-test bull’s-eye has been removed from Estero Bay for one to two years, according to the Independent Peer Review Panel (IPRP) advising the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) on seismic risks to PG&E’s Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant and SCE's San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS). The CPUC regulates the state's two nuclear plants.
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Are Endangered Central Coast Sea Otters Lab ‘Rats’ Caught in PG&E’s Halted Seismic Test? A Special Report
With so many unanswered questions and a continuing refusal to release the relevant permit(s), except under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, the public is entitled to ask whether the real facts are being deliberately withheld and if so, by whom? And more to the point, why?
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Tog at 95: Singing Along With Morro Bay’s ‘Living Legend’
When you are the patriarch of the Tognazzinis, one of the most well-known families on the Central Coast for half a century, the father of 10 children -- eight still living and thriving -- and have been married for 73 years to Henrietta, the love of your life, you don’t often hear a question like “What else have you done?”
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Coastal Commission Diving Into PG&E’s Murky Low-Energy Tests
When are a low-energy seismic survey (LESS) and a high-energy seismic survey (HESS) practically identical in their significant impacts on marine life? Prompted by the public’s request for an investigation into PG&E’s low-energy seismic tests off the Central Coast, California Coastal Commission Executive Director Charles Lester told those attending the Commission's January 9 hearing in Pismo Beach that they are looking deeper into the connections between HESS and LESS – or what one public speaker colorfully called the “evil twins.”
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