'Instead of putting Diablo Canyon back on life support, dependent on a drip of taxpayer subsidies, California should turn a new leaf and lean into building the electric system of the future,' says EnvCalifornia's lauracdeehan.
and expected energy shortages in calling to keep Diablo Canyon open, arguing that it will be difficult to achieve California's goal of transitioning to 100% renewable energy by 2045 without the plant's 2,250-megawatt capacity.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, asserted in September that Diablo Canyon"is critical in the context of making sure we have energy reliability going forward." "That energy does not produce greenhouse gases," he noted."That energy provides baseload and reliability and affordability that will complement and allow us to stack all of the green energy that we're bringing online at record rates."However, opponents point to catastrophes like the 2011 Fukshima meltdown in Japan and the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the then-Soviet Union—which left an area the size of the U.S.
"Instead of putting Diablo Canyon back on life support, dependent on a drip of taxpayer subsidies, California should turn a new leaf and lean into building the electric system of the future," said Deehan."Our state and our nation need to be laser-focused on building an efficient energy system powered by renewable sources such as the sun, the wind, and the heat of the Earth."
Meanwhile, a group of Chumash—the largest Indigenous tribe in California prior to the genocidal Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. conquest of the region—is"We want to be in a position to protect this land. Protect what's there, not just for our benefit, it's for the benefit of California.
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