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December 4, 2024 3:19 pmSDG&E’s electric rates are the highest in the nation
Are we customers or “victims?” It’s Official: According to a new study by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics SDG&E customers are paying the highest rates for electricity in the continental USA. These rates are even higher than “outlier” states such as Hawaii, and Alaska. A significant portion of the higher...
Read more →December 4, 2024 2:49 pmCHIEF BLACK FOX SPEAKS: Nuclear Waste and Native American Prophecy
Editor’s Note: Delbert Everett Pomani Jr, who we all knew as Black Fox, passed away at the age of 63 on May 17, 2024. He gave generously of his time and spirit when he was in San Diego helping us fight the construction of a high-level radioactive nuclear waste dump at...
Read more →November 26, 2024 6:04 pmWhat is Holtec Smoking? $70 million lost to cannabis-loving employees?
New Jersey Monitor, an independent news organization is reporting that Holtec, the company that made the nuclear waste storage canisters for the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) has admitted that its employees embezzled money and duped its CEO into a $70 million loss from questionable investments in the cannabis...
Read more →October 31, 2024 12:30 pmThe Horror of a nuclear “comeback” covered in the San Diego Union Tribune
If the world survives the so-called "Nuclear Renaissance," it may well become known as humanity's Second Dark Age, where a handful of greedy plutocrats decided to use primitive last-century nuclear technology to power an energy-gobbling AI infrastructure.
Read more →October 9, 2024 5:25 pmGasoline Settlement Claim Form and how you were jumped at the pump by a criminal enterprise
If you live in California and purchased gasoline between February 20, 2015 and November 10, 2015 in San Diego or Los Angeles Counties, (plus eight other counties)*, then you are probably eligible for a refund thanks to a legal action by the California Department of Justice. Some of you may have...
Read more →September 18, 2024 12:56 pmReport to members on Radiation leaks at the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS)
UPDATE: On 09-25-24, we finally received a name-redacted copy of the radiation spill report filed by a BNSF railroad worker to the California Department of Health. Get the Department of Health report. Sept. 10, 2024 – HazMat Spill Report Get the official San Benardino Fire Department Hazardous Materials (HazMat) spill...
Read more →September 11, 2024 9:20 amFire Department HazMat report of the nuclear spill that occurred in the BNSF railroad yard in San Benardino on June 30, 2024, 8:02pm
UPDATED 09-25-24: California Public Records Act response with a letter from the NRC explaining the spill. See also a name-redacted copy of the official San Bernardino Fire Department report, including photos, on the recent spill of radioactive water from a rail shipment headed toward Clive Utah for disposal, and this report...
Read more →August 14, 2024 2:32 pmSupreme Court Decision weakens APA and the power of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
The Chevron doctrine is dead. On June 28, 2024, a new Supreme Court Decision put long overdue limits on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and its power to ignore regulatory law on behalf of the big utilities it regulates. The Chevron doctrine asserted that if a federal law is ambiguous or...
Read more →August 8, 2024 5:24 pmLetter to the Editor, Orange County Register
The following is a letter to the Editors of the Orange County Register in response to an exceptionally well-researched report by columnist Terri Sforza. The letter was written by Public Watchdogs’ Director of Development, Nina Babiarz, In the original opinion, Sforza pointed out the link between our sky-high electric rate increases,...
Read more →July 25, 2024 3:28 pm“Twinkle-Eyed” fun and games at the failed San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant
If a handful of the radioactive plutonium stored at the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station was atomized, spread evenly over the earth, and then inhaled, it would be enough to give every person on the planet cancer. Plutonium is one of the many eternally deadly radioactive metals that are present...
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