Arraignment on Plains oil spill criminal charges continued
The arraignment of Plains All American Pipeline and its employee involving criminal charges stemming from last year’s Refugio oil spill was continued until June 30. Following the arraignment on the morning of June 2, the first 11 pages of the California grand jury indictment were made public. It included four felony charges and 42 misdemeanors. Read More →
Refugio oil spill effects linger a year later
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CPUC OKs construction of NRG Energy’s Puente Power Project in Oxnard
The California Public Utilities Commission greenlit Oxnard’s Puente Power Project at a May 26 meeting in San Francisco. In a 5-0 vote, the commission unanimously approved a contract between Southern California Edison and Houston-based NRG Energy to build a 262-megawatt peaker plant on the site of the 57-year-old Mandalay Generating Station. Over the past several Read More →
Ventura’s Biodico gets $1.2 million grant farm electricity project
Ventura biofuel company Biodico received a $1.2 million grant from the California Energy Commission for its solar, wind and bioenergy project, “Zero Net Energy Farms.” Through the project, Biodico plans to generate enough electricity to power a farm onsite and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The grant was awarded through the CEC’s Electric Program Investment Charge Read More →
Hydrogen fueling station serves Central Coast
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Dubroff: Plains prosecution either carefully crafted or grandstanding
There are two ways to look at the May 17 announcement that Plains All American Pipeline will face criminal charges over last year’s Refugio oil spill. During a press conference that made national news, California Attorney General Kamala Harris and Santa Barbara County District Attorney Joyce Dudley said that a California grand jury had indicted Read More →
Federal regulators say Plains failed to prevent Refugio oil spill
Story updated at 5:20 p.m. May 19: Plains All American Pipeline did not adequately protect its lines from corrosion, properly measure the worn pipes nor respond quickly enough to the Refugio oil spill, according to a final report from the Pipeline Hazardous Materials Safety Administration issued May 19. PHMSA, the federal entity that regulated Plains Read More →
