[svlug] No way

[Margaret Wendall]

On top of the veto of the Calpine plant in South San Jose, the City Council has
OKd new "affordable" housing in the same area. All we need here is more people
to use the meager amount of electricity the powers that be have allotted us
until they get the price rise they want. (Witness the long gas lines of the '70s
and the water rate rise during the drought that has never been reduced.)


Todd Lyons wrote:

> Somebody please tell me that Time magazine screwed the pooch when they
> printed this:
>
> "The poster child for the frustrations that power companies face is the
> proposed 600 Megawatt Coyote Valley generator that Calpine Corp. wants to
> build in San Jose, in the heart of Silicon Valley.  The facility would light
> 600,000 homes in a region that experienced blackouts last week, but the San
> Jose City Council vetoed the project in November, even though groups ranging
> from the Sierra Club to the NAACP supported it.  But the plant faced
> opposition from Cisco Systems, the leading producer of high-speed
> fiber-optic networks, which happens to be San Jose's largest employer.
> Cisco argued that the power plant would be an eyesore next to an industrial
> park that the company plans to build for 20,000 employees."
>
> I have difficulty believing that Cisco would fight against something that
> would be so beneficial for not only them, but their entire community, just
> because it would be "an eyesore."
> --
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