As public hearings continue regarding the Diablo Canyon Power Plant, San Luis Obispo County residents must confront a terrifying reality. While regulators use rare loopholes to bypass environmental rules for a supposedly brief five-year extension—this is the bait—the truth is a multi-decade push to secure power for a surging tech sector and unpublicized AI data […]
Jean'ne Blackwell, San Luis Obispo
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In response to his recent signing of the Orphan Well Prevention Act, AB 1167
My question is how do we enforce that law? What good are laws, rules, regulations, codes if there is no enforcement mechanism? Without consequences for noncompliance, laws are ignored. We don’t need new laws. We need the old ones enforced. If the old ones failed because of noncompliance, what can we expect from the new […]
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In response to ‘The price of housing,’ we really don’t need more houses
These are very very stressful times. Green open spaces are known to make peace with your heart and soul and body. Many scientific studies show that the benefits of open green community space is space well spent for the well-being and happiness of the community. Driving around town, I noticed when I come to an […]
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It is all about the water
San Luis Obispo, Our Right to Clean Water SLO Self Governance Action Committee
“Farming’s dark side?” (June 7) by Kathy Johnston was rather shocking in the fact that farmers are blamed for the Central Coast drinking water pollution. Even with regulations, monitoring tier upon tier of all approved and regulated pesticides, herbicides, and nutrients, even with rules in place from numerous regulatory agencies—Regional Water Quality Control Board, State […]
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We should find out if seeding works
San Luis Obispo
That was a great article on cloud seeding (“Weather or not,” Sept. 29) by Kathy Johnston. That is what I call news journalism. It brings up some very interesting questions also, like is Santa Barbara coordinating with the national seeding program? Because sometimes we could be getting double, triple doses of the seeding effect, and […]
