This has been a successful year for Citizens Oversight and for everyone who has helped in our projects. And very recently, we have had a few breakthroughs putting...
This group is a party to the investigation by the California Public Utilities Commission. Parent topic is: ShutSanOnofre * SCE * public web page to make ...
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Citizens' Oversight Projects Update We are now introducing a new weekly email blast to copsmain list. Our intention is to collect the upcoming events so you can a...
Click here to view on web: CITIZENS OVERSIGHT 2012 YEAR END FUNDRAISING LETTER Dear Friend: The Citizens' Oversight Project is growing and becoming even more ...
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FederalFilingsExhibitDetails SEE M1552 for the primary topic. * Edison_OPP.pdf: PLAINTIFFS’ OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON COMPANY’S ...
FundDecommissionSanOnofreTeam See project topics here: ShutSanOnofre and CoalitionToDecommissionSanOnofre The Coalition to Decommission San Onofre (CDSO) continue...
New California Public Utilities Commission members face growing concern by consumer advocates that regulators have authorized too many new power plants over the l...
How do you move a 640 ton, 65 foot tall steam generator 15 miles up the coast? Very slowly. Over the past three weeks crews moved an enormous generator from Camp ...
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Massive new turbines expected to increase electrical output from the San Onofre nuclear plant will be installed starting this month, part of a $280 million upgrad...
The chairman of the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission toured the San Onofre nuclear power plant Friday with elected officials. He later met with activists who...
Friends of the Earth announced their petition filed to allow them to confront Southern California Edison regarding the redesign of the steam generators at San Ono...
For the past four years, San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station has had the highest number of safety complaints of any nuclear plant in the country. That s not th...
Fueled by last week's news of design flaws at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, more than 20 anti nuclear activists on Wednesday asked the Oceanside City Cou...
LOS ANGELES (AP) The future of the troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant could balance on an inescapable question: Is it worth the money to fix it? Engineers ...
California energy officials are preparing for the possibility the San Onofre nuclear power plant could be offline through 2013 or 2014. While there is no timetabl...
Although state and utility officials hope San Onofre will be producing some power as soon as this fall, they're scrambling to avoid a dark 2013 and 2014. The nucl...
Replacing four of the San Onofre nuclear plant s biggest parts took 10 years and cost almost $700 million. SDG E and others said the project was premature. It was...
See main subproject here: SanOnofreLicenseAmendmentIntervention Latest News A petition to intervene and request a hearing has been submitted as of Oct 17, 2012 ...
'Shut Down San Onofre': The New Front Line in the Fight Against Nuclear Power Jon Wiener on July 5, 2012 5:52 PM ET Not long after the meltdown at Fukushima, wo...
SAN CLEMENTE (CBS) _ _ Previously classified documents along with other evidence uncovered in an exclusive CBS2 investigation point to potential hidden dangers a...
We are still investigating this, but it appears that they may vote on this at the Oct 25 CPUC meeting in Irvine. "Order Instituting Investigation on the Commissio...
New cooling system would mean more towers in coastal reserve Reducing the San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station's thirst for salt water would cost about $2.5 bill...
See main subproject here: SanOnofreLicenseAmendmentIntervention Overview This proceeding, held on Dec 5, 2012, was to determine if Citizens Oversight has conten...
SAN DIEGO Citizens Oversight Project activist Raymond Lutz asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Wednesday to hold a formal hearing on changes to Southern Ca...
Your browser does not support the audio element. It was a lesson in fighting city hall or, in this case, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. An activist engineer...
AUDIO: http://www.kpbs.org/audioclips/16167/ It s a David and Goliath situation, but a panel of independent judges at the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board is con...
SAN ONOFRE, Calif. If Southern California Edison thought it was moving smoothly toward firing up San Onofre's Unit 2 reactor, it received a rude awakening on Fr...
Featured Interview: Engineer and activist Ray Lutz nukes the NRC s cover up of SCE s responsibility for San Onofre s steam generator problems. PLUS: * Four n...
With nuke near death, consumers staring at $3B tab By Dan McSwain5 p.m.May 4, 2013 The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station has been closed for 14 months after ...
The CPUC, the California Public Utilities Commission is a state agency that regulates utilities. This meeting is a quasi judicial hearing regarding the San Onofre...
This is Phase 1 of the investigation by by the CPUC into the outage at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS). This phase is constrained to the events and ...
Edison International's CEO Hosts San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Update Conference (Transcript) Jun 7 2013, 16:40 about: EIX Executives Janet T. Clayton ...
This meeting occurred just after the announcement by Southern California Edison that they would not attempt to restart either unit at the San Onofre Nuclear Gener...
The CPUC is a public agency that is responsible for regulating the public utilities in California. In this case, this agency is in the midst of an investigation i...
At an administrative hearing on January 8, 2013 of the CaliforniaPublicUtilitiesCommission on the multi million dollars costs at the broken down San Onofre nuclea...
Video of Afternoon Session About 7 minutes were omitted at the beginning of Part 1 and 3 minutes at the beginning of Part 2 which were facilitator remarks about l...
The operator of the recently retired San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station has been cited by nuclear safety regulators for failing to properly check the design of...
The operator of the recently retired San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station has been cited by nuclear safety regulators for failing to properly check the design of...
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Coalition to Decommission San Onofre Contact: Ray Lutz, 619 820 5321 raylutz #64;citizensoversight.org EDISON SDG E PROPO...
* SD UT Nuke Pg1 Sun 4 20 14.pdf: Print Edition Story as PDF * SSD UTnuke_story Pg2 Sun4 20 14.pdf: Print Edition Story as PDF Pg 2 At issue is whether utilit...
For many decades, the California Public Utilities Commission and the big companies it regulates — Pacific Gas Electric, Southern California Edison, Southern Cal...
California historically has offered one of the most constructive regulatory environments in the nation, says Hugh Wynne, a Wall Street research analyst. Because ...
Posted May 8, 2014 Media Contact: Maureen Brown, (626) 302 2255 ROSEMEAD, Calif., May 8, 2014 Parties representing labor, consumers and community based organiza...
Nuclear deal slams consumers, as usual By Dan McSwain5 p.m.May 10, 2014 FILE In this Friday, June 7, 2013 file photo, surfers pass in front of the San Onofre nu...
Who pays for a worthless power plant? By Morgan Lee6 a.m.May 11, 2014 San Onofre nuclear power plant Nuclear plants across the United States routinely swap out m...
Closing of nuke helps Edison to higher earnings Eric Wolff 5 November 2013 SNL Generation Markets Week GMW The closure of the San Onofre nuclear generating statio...
Heated battles over who pays for last year's permanent closure of the San Onofre nuclear power plant — and how much — are just getting started. Even some consumer...
Ratepayer rep s role questioned Consumer advocates say group fell short on San Onofre settlement By Jeff McDonald6:12 p.m.May 13, 2014 As regulators and utility ...
Settling The Bill For Closing The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Wednesday, May 14, 2014 By Erik Anderson Utilities, consumer advocates and critics are in...
Is the Public Utilities Commission Complicit in a Cover up? May 20, 2014 Leave a comment By Roy L Hales The attached videos of the May 14 Settlement Evidentiary h...
Mike Aguirre gets cussed out at CPUC The president of the California Public Utilities Commission swore and angrily refused to answer questions last week at an unu...
Peeved Commissioner Peevey hints at CPUC's disarray The regulators' fixed deal is naked By Don Bauder, May 26, 2014 On May 14, the California Public Utilities...
Attempting to solve the continuing mystery we could call Who Killed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station? U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer has demanded that the Nuclear...
The California Public Utilities Commission is a disaster. The degree of incompetence is so high, it's hard to find anything the PUC does well under President Mich...
Barbara Boxer wants U.S. probe on San Onofre By: Associated Press May 28, 2013 06:09 AM EDT LOS ANGELES — U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer wants the Justice Department to...
Southern California Edison and the maker of steam generators at San Onofre nuclear plant knew about problems with the generators even before they were installed, ...
FILE This Monday Nov. 3,2008 file photo shows one of Pacific Gas and Electric's Diablo Canyon Power Plant's nuclear reactors in Avila Beach on California's centra...
SAN DIEGO Southern California Edison on Tuesday abandoned a plan to send a 600 ton decommissioned reactor vessel on what would have been the longest voyage ever...
Recent years have not been kind to the California Public Utilities Commission. Two high profile disasters—the 2010 San Bruno gas pipeline explosion, which killed ...
A new standoff has emerged in deliberations over who should pay for the breakdown of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. Two consumer advocates have urged ...
U.S. nuclear safety regulators missed red flags in 2009 when they agreed to pre approve steam generators at the San Onofre nuclear plant without a thorough review...
NRC InspectorGeneralReportOnSongs ML14276A478.pdf: NRC Inspector General Report on SONGS and 10CFR 50.59 Searchable Text Page 1 OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERA...
A San Diego based consumer coalition wants placed on hold a multibillion dollar settlement proposal for nuclear plant costs at San Onofre, in response to revelati...
A group of utility consumers announced a federal lawsuit Friday against the California Public Utilities Commission and one of the state’s largest electric compani...
Meeting links CPUC probe to San Onofre Edison discloses it met at luxury hotel in Poland with former regulator By Jeff McDonald5:44 p.m.Feb. 9, 2015 Hotel Bristo...
SCE reports private contact in 2013 with PUC head Peevey In 2013, then PUC President Michael Peevey spoke privately with an SCE executive about San Onofre. (Mark ...
Shut up! Shut up! Edison admits secret huddle with Michael Peevey on San Onofre By Don Bauder, Feb. 9, 2015 This afternoon (February 9), Southern California Edi...
raylutz@citizensoversight.org 619 820 5321 February 11, 2015 PRESS RELEASE MEDIA ADVISORY – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Peevey Toasters Face Public Scrutiny Southern...
Furor over $250 a head party honoring former CPUC head By Jaxon Van Derbeken February 11, 2015 Updated: February 11, 2015 6:24pm Photo: Paul Chinn / The Chronicle...
Interactive Timeline Source data https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aIdn_VZRJSK_KQeY1AhARdf7Yqnu5rOOx2skT09qD6E/edit#gid=0 The following is manually entere...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On February 25, 2015, Citizens Oversight and other plaintiffs, represented by attorneys Aguirre Severson LLP, made a significant filing in...
SouthernCaliforniaEdison was the licensee and primary operator of the San Onofre nuclear plant. 1 On Feb 12, 1999, SCE obtained NRC approval to reduce T(cold) ...
REGULATOR, EDISON HAD ‘REGULAR’ CHATS Emails reveal calls with PUC member Florio, whose contacts with PG E prompted recusal By Jeff McDonald5:05 a.m.March 3, 201...
View the video * View directly on Calchannel website: http://calchannel.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=7 clip_id=2638 * See "Key Testimony" Transcript...
Probe of back channel dealing continues at California PUC BY DAVID SIDERS DSIDERS@SACBEE.COM 03/29/2015 4:57 PM 03/30/2015 2:18 PM On Sept. 9, 2010, a massive...
* 3_19_15_Letter_to_President_Picker_from_Asm_Rendon.pdf: Letter to CPUC President Picker from Assembly Member Rendon, Chair of the Utilities Commerce Committee...
PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE HALT SAN ONOFRE DECOMMISSIONING DURING DROUGHT, SAYS CITIZENS' OVERSIGHT Water Conservation Plan should be reviewed and ap...
Hotel notes show San Onofre deal hatched early Framework was set in Poland, before public process began By Jeff McDonald 5:29 p.m. April 10, 2015 Updated 9 p.m...
PRESS RELEASE AND MEDIA ADVISORY San Onofre Deal In Federal Court Peevey's Warsaw Notes Strengthens Ratepayer Advocate's Position Oral Argument to be heard on ...
Monday April 27, 2015 (SACRAMENTO) – A bill by California State Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D San Diego) to require new accountability measures when executive ...
Southern California Edison Review of Documents Affirms Independent San Onofre Settlement Process Posted April 29, 2015 ROSEMEAD, Calif., April 29, 2015 — Document...
The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, shut down since 2012 and now being decommissioned. Photo courtesy Southern California Edison Rep. Darrell Issa on Tuesd...
The San Diego consumer group suing to reverse the San Onofre settlement that charges ratepayers billions of dollars for the failed nuclear plant has taken its cas...
From the Inspector General Report on SONGS On June 7, 2006, SCE notified NRC of its intent and timeline to replace Units 2 and 3 steam generators under 10 CFR 50....
Calif. Judge Retires Amid Controversy Over SoCal Edison Case Share us on: By Carmen Germaine Law360, New York (January 6, 2016, 10:40 PM ET) The California Pu...
Judge calls for review of CPUC emails Ruling: Utilities commission won't get last word on withholding San Onofre emails By Jeff McDonald 12:38 p.m. Jan. 25, 20...
By Jeff McDonald 9 a.m. Jan. 30, 2016 When alloy tubing in one of the new steam generators at San Onofre leaked a small amount of radiation four years ago this ...
Dear Readers, Four years ago today San Onofre Nuclear Waste Generating Station shut down forever. Nobody had any idea it would be forever the day it happened: The...
A Whiff of Methane and the Odor of Corruption. By: Brett Redmayne Titley “Oh! Sure. Twice, just last week,” answered Porter Ranch resident Jim Baker to the questi...
Stopped!! Methane Blow Out. Radioactive Fall out. And ... The Predictable Result. By: Brett Redmayne Titley This past Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016 brought a welcome br...
June 23rd, 2016 Dear Readers, Three important nuclear power events occurred in the past seven days one in Nebraska and two in California which together show j...
This paper identifies a possible location for an off site nuclear waste storage facility which would be better than the one being built by Southern California Edi...
In what is a rare occurrence in San Diego’s Superior Court, Judge Judith Hayes has changed her mind about tossing a lawsuit aimed at changing plans to bury nuclea...
The threat of a nuclear meltdown is no longer a concern at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station because it’s shut down. A shuttered nuclear plant does presen...
Earlier this month, a superior court judge allowed a lawsuit aimed at reversing a decision by the California Coastal Commission granting a permit to store spent n...
lawsuit by a group that wants to transfer the 3.6 million pounds of nuclear waste sitting at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) to a facility in Ar...
A lawsuit asks a state court to order the removal of nuclear waste stored at San Onofre to the Mojave Desert. The complaint was filed before Superior Court Judge ...
Settlement Talks Announced in Suit Challenging Nuclear Fuel Storage at San Onofre April 07, 2017 Media Contact: Maureen Brown, (626) 302 2255 ROSEMEAD, Calif., Ap...
Owners of the failed San Onofre nuclear plant agreed Friday to begin negotiations aimed at relocating tons of radioactive waste from the San Diego County coastlin...
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has come under fire for backing a decision to store deadly waste at the shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station...
Citizens Oversight, Inc. et al filed a lawsuit against the Coastal Commission to block the permit they granted to Southern California Edison to bury 3.6 million p...
Here is a letter we sent around. Your email need not be so extensive. Suggested email: To: City, county or other jurisdiction officials I understand that the Co...
Use the following as a template for your file to stay on message, but also feel free to CUSTOMIZE to your own experience! Best not to have identical letters from ...
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SCE STUNG WITH NRC VIOLATION NOTICE ON CONSTRUCTION OF NUCLEAR WASTE FACILITY STIRS MEMORIES OF FAILED STEAM GENERATORS DU...
REDACTED FINAL AWARD, REDACTED CONCURRING AND DISSENTING OPINION, AND REDACTED CORRECTED PARAGRAPHS IN THE AWARD IN ICC ARBITRATION CASE NO. 19784/AGR/RD PUBLIC ...
This page was edited by RayLutz, founder of CitizensOversight Background Settlement document, press release, etc: * SettlementToMoveSanOnofreWaste This is t...
RayLutz says: I wholeheartedly recommend this book which gives an in depth and thorough accounting of history through the year 2013 of the nuclear waste situation...
Three plus years after state regulators permitted Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas Electric to start charging consumers billions of dollars for the ...
Questions have come up regarding the San Onofre Shutdown Settlement. Instead of answering them n times, we have gathered them here so many people can be more full...
REGION — El Cajon based nonprofit Citizens’ Oversight Projects has filed a petition with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to change the way spent nuclear fuel fr...
Southern California Edison hosts a quarterly "Community Engagement Panel Meeting" to present their point of view. Public comment is accepted (3 min). Includes dis...
Southern California Edison has named a panel of experts to advise the company on how to move nuclear waste off the storage site near the beach at San Onofre. The ...
A team of six experts in the nuclear energy sector has been assembled to find a way to move the 3.55 million pounds of nuclear waste at the San Onofre Nuclear Gen...
The new “Experts Panel” that will probe re homing options for 3.6 million pounds of nuclear waste at San Onofre includes Allison Macfarlane, former chair of the U...
Four years after approving a plan that charged ratepayers billions of dollars for the premature closing of the San Onofre nuclear plant, state utility regulators ...
The idlers who guzzle beer all day and loaf around the alley beside Sam's Market in Mission Beach, near Santa Clara Place, aren't sure whether they should still h...
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE San Diego (2019 03 12) Citizens' Oversight, the organization that sued the Coastal Commission and Southern California Edis...
I have spoken with Ray Lutz, recommending the program I’ve captioned as, Beauty and The Beast to align with the healthy environment beauty relies on and in...
By JHarryJones UNION TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER 6:14 p.m. April 11, 2008 The board members of the county's long range planning group overwhelmingly endorsed the Sunrise...
by DeanCalbreath UNION TRIBUNE April 13, 2008 The billboard on the freeway shows a pair of stark alternatives: a dark, grimy, smoke belching power plant versus a ...
Will These Keep the Lights On? By Joe Deegan Published Wednesday, May 28, 2008 The Sunrise Powerlink gleamed for the first time in Sempra Energy #8217;s eye on...
San Diego Reader City Lights Clouds on SDG E s Sunny Plans By Craig D. Rose Published Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009 When it comes to fighting global warming, San ...
Who could possibly be against homeowners using solar panels to power their homes? Utility companies. ENVIRONMENT A Future So Bright Solar power breaks thro...
Part of project: StopNukeDump * PETITION CONFORMED.pdf: Lawsuit to stop nuclear waste dump at San Onofre * 3 3 17_SCEs_Opposition_to_Writ_Petition.pdf: SCE'...
PeeveyRingtone One of the most hilarious ringtones ever! Your phone can ring with the words of California Public Utilities Commission President Michael Peevey aft...
See parent project ShutSanOnofre Background Each nuclear power plant is licensed by the NRC, through the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board. Southern California E...
Get Bumper Stickers! Objective: Permanent decommissioning of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) WE WON! Southern California Edison announced a pe...
On August 28, 2017, a historic settlement agreement was announced to MOVE THE WASTE TO A SAFER PLACE Navigational Aids Our primary focus will be on the Pendleton...
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