[S-C] Breaking News! Victory! PG&E Hunters Point power plant is CLOSED!

[Bradley Angel]

For immediate release: May 5, 2006

 

                                       

                                                BREAKING NEWS! 

            VICTORY!  PG&E HUNTERS POINT POWER PLANT IS CLOSED!

California Independent Systems Operator and PG&E Confirm Dirty and Outdated
Plant is No Longer Operating!

 

   Bayview Hunters Point Residents and Greenaction Celebrate Victory 

            in Long Struggle for Clean Air and Environmental Justice


 

              VICTORY CELEBRATION TO BE HELD FRIDAY, MAY 12, 2006, 6 PM

   at HUNTERSVIEW PUBLIC HOUSING, 227 West Point Road, Bayview Hunters
Point, San Francisco

 

San Francisco, CA - The long fight by Bayview Hunters Point residents,
Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice and allies to close the
dirty, outdated and unnecessary PG&E Hunters Point power plant is over, as
state and PG&E officials have confirmed the plant has stopped generating
electricity.  Residents have also confirmed that the stacks that emitted
unacceptable levels of pollution for decades are now quiet and are not in
operation.

 

Julie Gill of the California Independent Systems Operator, the state agency
in charge of the power grid, and Robert Harris, PG&E Vice President for
Environmental Affairs, have both confirmed to Greenaction that the plant is
no longer generating electricity.  The plant will officially close when the
"Reliability Must Run" contract is terminated by the Cal ISO on May 15th.
As one of California's dirtiest and oldest power plants, it had polluted the
community for over 77 years.  

 

"This is a great victory for Bayview Hunters Point, for our children and
community," said Tessie Ester, representative of the Huntersview Mothers
Committee and resident of Huntersview public housing located across the
street from the PG&E power plant. "Our children have suffered for too long
with asthma and pollution, but today we celebrate cleaner air and our
victory for health and justice."

 

The closure and victory come after years of protests, including nonviolent
direct actions at the plant. 

 

"Although we will be celebrating this great victory for environmental
justice, we must now begin new fights against other polluting industries in
our community, and we must also encourage industry and government to support
clean, renewable energy, not polluting fossil fuel power plants" said Marie
Harrison, community organizer for Greenaction. "We must also oppose the
so-called redevelopment plan that could result in evicting the low-income
people of color residents of our community who have a right to remain here
and enjoy clean air and a healthy environment."

 

The Huntersview Mothers Committee and Greenaction invite everyone to a
victory celebration

Friday, May 12, 2006 beginning at 6 p.m. at the Huntersview public housing,
227 West Point Road, near Evans, in Bayview Hunters Point.

 

 

 

 

 

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