Subject: Utilities Sector

• Terrorists Attack US Power Plant

  Israeli terrorists have caused significant damage to a power plant in Palestine, insured by the U.S. government for up to $48 million dollars. READ THE STORY ON ALJAZEERA.COM Tony Snow, White House Chief of Verbal Diarrhea, previously described Israel's current assault on the Palestinians as legitimate self-defence, precipitated by "the hostage-taking and attacks by Hamas last weekend." Funny, I don't think he would consider the Iraqi insurgency a legitimate self-defence, precipitated by pris

  July 2, 2006

• Change in the air?

  This is certainly a refreshing development, although the participation of a gubernatorial candidate smacks of political posturing. NEW REPORT ON COMPANIES IN CALIFORNIA, ELSEWHERE TO FIND WIDE DISPARITY IN CLIMATE CHANGE RESPONSES; INVESTORS WILL PUSH POOR-PERFORMING FIRMS TO SHAPE UP NEWS ADVISORY - March 21, 2006 -- A first-ever comprehensive assessment of a half-dozen of California's largest companies on their handling of climate change risks and opportunities is the subject of a major new

  March 17, 2006

• Beach Break: Killing Nemo

  Cut off from the powerful, cleansing waves of the Pacific ocean by a massive concrete breakwater, the gentle swells that lap the Long Beach coastline are so dirty that they were recently ranked the most polluted beach water in California by the Santa Monica-based environmental group Heal The Bay. Although Mayor Bob Foster and a majority of the city council favors studying the possibility of tearing down at least part of the breakwater, such action could be years away. But city residents might b

  August 2, 2007

• Beach Break: Five Outta Six Aint Bad

  The results are in and Long Beach is the winner with five of the six most polluted beaches in Los Angeles County, says the National Resources Defense Council in its annual "Testing the Waters" guide. Mother's Beach lead the charge with violations of state health standards 59 percent of the time. The other dirty beaches include three spots in Colorado Lagoon and the beach near the Second Street bridge and Bayshore Avenue, conveniently located next to the storm water pumping station that leaks t

  August 8, 2007

• Monday's Headlines & Surprises: Laguna prefers goats on grass

  Mexicans are safe on this one: A report issued recently to the Laguna Beach City Council found that goats will clear vegetation from fire-sensitive slopes for a cost of $198,000 per year, while juveniles working off a crime in the county’s Probation Department would require $385,000. A consultant to the city noted that goats are “advantageous in their ability to work in all types of weather and terrain conditions.” So the goats win again. But tell me recidivism rates for probation punks w

  September 10, 2007

• How I Spent My Christmas Vacation

  January 14, 1999

• Ode to Sneaky Pete

  March 25, 1999

• The Silent Treatment

  April 22, 1999

• Rate Rape

  February 15, 2001

• Fight the Power Plants

  March 29, 2001

• Argyros Gas Mask

  July 12, 2001

• In the Sewage Pipeline

  July 4, 2002

• No on Measure R Contributor Has a Past

  Garbage As mentioned here, Santa Ana recycling equipment maker Enterprise Co. has given $4,000 to the campaign against Irvine's Measure R, which asks residents to give a vote of approval to the Irvine City Council's planning of the Great Park on the old El Toro Marine Corps base. Enterprise Co., which was incorporated in 1969 under the ownership of Orval and Albert Gould, has a solid reputation nationally when it comes to the design, engineering and manufacturing of equipment and systems for t

  October 31, 2008

• Body Language Exposes Deception in Irvine Safe Water Presentation

  Last week we blogged that Navy and Irvine Ranch Water District (IRWD) officials had declared Irvine's drinking water safe at a presentation before the Orange County Great Park board--despite an acknowledged polluted plume under parts of the city and its source, the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station base that will become the Great Park. The Navy is in charge of cleaning up that plume, coordinating with the IRWD.Resident Marsha Taylor was watching that presentation from home on the loca

  November 28, 2008

• Water District Dinged $130K-plus for Sewage Spills

  The San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board today fined Orange County's Santa Margarita Water District $133,190 for two spills that flushed 857,934 gallons of shit into San Juan Creek and Cristianitos Creek.   The water district - Orange County's second largest, serving more than 150,000 residents and businesses in Mission Viejo, Rancho Santa Margarita, Coto de Caza, Las Flores,  Ladera Ranch, and Talega - falls within the northern part of the San Diego region's boundaries, whi

  December 10, 2008

• Bitter Pill

  January 20, 2000

• A Life Wasted

  May 11, 2006

• Sunset Beach

  October 20, 2005

• The Cuban Solution

  March 10, 2005

• Dam Us!

  Januarys flooding wasnt an act of god, but man

  January 27, 2005

• White Collar Crackerjack

  September 9, 2004

• Fire Water!

  Disney to fire off safer fireworks, but perchlorates still taint Anaheim wells

  June 10, 2004

• Fire Water!

  Disney to fire off safer fireworks, but perchlorates still taint Anaheim wells

  June 3, 2004

• Somebody Call Roto-Rooter!

  October 2, 2003

• A Fun Job

  July 18, 2002

• San Onofre Nightmare Generating Station

  June 27, 2002

• Radiation Vibe

  October 18, 2001

• Alternative Groove

  July 26, 2001

• Zapped

  July 26, 2001

• He Learned It by Watching Bob!

  June 7, 2001

• Monsters of Deregulation

  May 17, 2001

• Poor Edison

  April 26, 2001

• Blackout Mail

  January 11, 2001

• Hot Rods!

  February 15, 2001

• The Honeymoon Continues

  February 8, 2001

• Electric Light Orchestra

  February 1, 2001

• Electric Doomsday!

  January 25, 2001

• Bail Me Out, Too!

  January 18, 2001

• Somebodys Gonna Pay!

  January 18, 2001

• Black Out

  December 28, 2000

• Ty-D-Baugh Man

  October 12, 2000

• Duck and Cover-up

  September 21, 2000

• Cancer Politics

  December 30, 1999

• The Silent Treatment, Part II

  June 17, 1999

• Letters

  May 6, 1999

• Power Play

  April 29, 1999

• Prescription for Disaster

  February 4, 1999

• Paging Ken Burns! The Great War Between the North and South Water Districts

  Terry Teri Sforza blogs on the Register's OC Watchdog that the cities of Laguna Beach, San Clemente and San Juan Capistrano, as well as the El Toro, South Coast, Irvine Ranch, Moulton Niguel, Trabuco Canyon and Santa Margarita water districts, may secede from its northern partners in the water-importing Municipal Water District of Orange County to form its own South Orange County water authority. The confederacy claims the mega-district spends too much money, does not pay enough attention to

  July 23, 2009

• Mike Duvall Avoids One Probe But Possibly Not a Far More Serious One

  Mike Duvall before . . . you know.​"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in."Al Pacino famously said that in Godfather III, but former Assemblyman Mike Duvall (R-Yorba Linda) could just as easily be muttering that to himself now.That's because the Orange County Register's Total Buzz politics blog reports that Legislative Counsel, the attorneys for the State Legislature, issued an opinion today saying that the Assembly Ethics Committee doesn't have jurisdiction to investigate Duvall

  October 2, 2009

• Fire Up the Vanagon, They're Talking Nukes at San Onofre Again

  Pretty!​The serious reconsideration of expanded nuclear power amid our uncertain energy future can mean only one thing: the resumption of serious protests against expanded nuclear power. With the San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station (SONGS) so close, and a public workshop and hearing about the plant's operations coming up tomorrow, someone had better get Jackson Browne, Martin Sheen and Harry Dean Stanton on the horn again.

  November 4, 2009