Lands Commission extends leases to keep Diablo Canyon running until 2025
The California State Lands Commission unanimously approved two land lease extensions that may keep the Diablo Canyon Power Plant running until 2025. After nearly a full day of public testimony, the commission approved two lease extensions for water intake structures and breakwaters at the plant that are used to pipe cooling water through the reactors Read More →
Diablo Canyon’s long goodbye
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Dubroff: Fukushima nuclear disaster doomed Diablo Canyon
Few people on the Central Coast took note of March 11 as the fifth anniversary of Japan’s 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. But you can trace the June 21 announcement that PG&E won’t operate the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant near Avila Beach beyond 2025 to the earthquake and tsunami on the Japanese coast that destroyed four Read More →
Strawberry crop might not always remain No. 1
It’s going to take a lot to dethrone the strawberry as the region’s top crop. But there are plenty of signs that the juicy red fruit that’s a year round sensation may not last forever at the top of the agribusiness pile. The retirement of the Dullam family, reported earlier in the Business Times, and Read More →
PG&E to close Diablo Canyon Power Plant by 2025
Pacific Gas and Electric plans to close the Diablo Canyon Power Plant near Avila Beach by 2025, the company announced June 21. The nuclear power plant has been controversial since starting operations in 1985 because fault lines run under and near the plant. PG&E said in a news release that it has plans to replace Read More →
San Luis Obispo County thirsty for desalination partnership
California’s continued drought is helping build the case for costly desalination plant reboots and entirely new projects up and down the coast. In San Luis Obispo County, Third District Supervisor Adam Hill said a possible plan to use excess desalinated water production capacity at the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant to replenish south county aquifers Read More →
Op/ed: PG&E exec answers critics, says Diablo Canyon is safe, secure
Our March 13 editorial raised questions about PG&E’s recent seismic assessment of the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant near Avila Beach. In response to coverage in the Business Times and other media, PG&E has offered the following commentary.
