Comments on: San Onofre bailout under growing fire

By: CaptD

CaptD — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 02:30:07 +0000

U Uhaul – Then enjoy reading somewhere else!

BTW: The SD Board of Supervisors voted to accept the San Onofre Emergency “Planning” money but also added wording that made it very clear that they did not want any Nuclear Waste in San Diego County.

They and they Staff will work to formulate a plan to get the Waste relocated away from the beach and out of the County ASAP.

Salute to Supervisors Diane Jacobs and Dave Roberts for being very Vocal on the issue and really listening to all those that spoke against the $5 Billion debacle what has happened at San Onofre!

#SanOnofreGate The new hashtag that will allow you to keep up to date on the ongoing investigation into the multi-billion $ SCE-CPUC ripoff.

http://m.sandiegoreader.com/news/2015/jul/21/ticker-nuke-storage-plan-san-onofre/

and

http://m.sandiegoreader.com/news/2015/jul/20/ticker-voice-reason-union-tribune-san-onofre/#c189165

By: CaptD

CaptD — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 02:27:05 +0000

In reply to Ulysses Uhaul. NPE Why do you ask?

By: Ulysses Uhaul

Ulysses Uhaul — Sun, 19 Jul 2015 02:27:17 +0000

In reply to CaptD. Geesh.....broke El Colapso's record for most tomes in a boring boring thread.

By: Ulysses Uhaul

Ulysses Uhaul — Sun, 19 Jul 2015 02:25:23 +0000

In reply to CaptD. Do you run a fish and chips joint?

By: CaptD

CaptD — Sat, 18 Jul 2015 19:29:42 +0000

In an interview, Rendon expressed growing frustration with Picker.

“His responses are unsatisfactory,” Rendon said. “I’m frustrated that he hasn’t even given me a timeline for the release of the emails.… I’ve lost confidence in the Public Utilities Commission.”

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2015/jul/17/emails-san-onofre/

Committee seeks San Onofre emails again

The chairman of the Assembly committee that oversees the California Public Utilities Commission has given the agency until the end of this month to secure and turn over certain emails and other documents from Southern California Edison.

Chairman Anthony Rendon, D-Lakewood, is asking Commission President Michael Picker to use his authority to demand that Edison provide internal and external emails about the failed San Onofre nuclear plant north of Oceanside. His letter this past week was his third since March.

“It has been nearly four months since the committee’s initial request for emails,” wrote Rendon, who chairs the Assembly Committee on Utilities and Commerce. “Given this delay, I am writing to ask you to produce the requested emails by July 31, 2015.”

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NOTICE THAT RENDON IS NOT ASKING THE CPUC FOR ALL RELATED SDG&E EMAILS YET… WHY, since they had to be “IN” on any settlement deal since they are 20% owners of San Onofre!

By: CaptD

CaptD — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 20:50:50 +0000

The CPUC ALJ (Administrative Law Judge) Darling (who was choose by Peevey to hear the San Onofre case) simply choose not to allow ANY “discovery” into the reasonableness of how SCE handled the Replacement Steam Generator Project, an investigation required by State law since San Onofre Unit 2 and Unit 3 were off-line for more than 9 months, which is the time specified in the CPUC code that an investigation must be initiated. Her “opinion” kept Aguirre and Severson from asking SCE employees for data and testimony “on the record”. She singlehandedly derailed the entire “investigation” and I predict that time will show that she played a pivotal role in the inner group that worked behind the scenes and off the record, to limit the scope of the investigation and/or promote the one sided Pro-Utility settlement. You have already written about her “conversations” with SCE officials, I believe that is just the tip of the iceberg, and now all of her emails should be released and analyzed.

Perhaps the next step is for Aguirre and Severson to officially request that Karen Clopton, the Chief ALJ to initiate an investigation into how the entire San Onofre Investigation was conducted, I am sure that will provide some much needed “daylight” being shed upon this in this $5 Billion ratepayer ripoff investigation, which has already had far too much back room dealings revealed to the public.

http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/PUC/aboutus/Divisions/ALJ+Division/clopton.htm
Snip:
Karen V. Clopton is the first African American Chief Administrative Law Judge for the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and manages the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Division, including over 40 judges. She served as the CPUC’s Interim General Counsel from March 1, 2014 until February 28, 2015 managing over 70 attorneys and implementing best legal and human resource management practices; improving accountability, timeliness, efficiency, continuing legal education, and ethical considerations. The Board of Trustees for the State Bar of California appointed Chief Judge Clopton on January 28, 2015 to the Commission on the Rules of Professional Conduct to assist in reviewing and revising the ethical code of conduct for California attorneys for submission to the California Supreme Court in 2017.

Post before on 06-27-15
http://m.sandiegoreader.com/news/2015/jun/24/ticker-reverse-rape-ratepayer/#c188282

By: CaptD

CaptD — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 20:46:32 +0000

From:
http://m.sandiegoreader.com/news/2015/jul/06/ticker-attorney-general-seeks-documents-peevey/

Karen Clopton, Chief ALJ of the CPUC and SDG&E are both “laying low” trying to not get their names involved in the public’s demand for a much wider investigation into what I call San Onofre Gate*; but I believe that time will show that they both are not only already involved but they failed the public trust by not speaking out when they first learned of the illegal behavior of both their CPUC colleagues and their counterparts at the Utilities, who the CPUC is charged with regulating!

I heard from a trusted source that Ms. Clopton is “cooperating” with the Investigation, which I believe is causing major changes in the CPUC as well as the way they have been conducting business without any true oversight!

Also, when SDG&E gets added to the corruption investigation I bet we will begin to see employees of SCE, SDG&E and even the CPUC start talking in trade for being exempt from prosecution; then the axes will begin to fall, despite all their high priced lawyers…

By: CaptD

CaptD — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 20:43:24 +0000

Readers might be very interested to learn that Pomerantz LLP is now involved in San Onofre Gate*:

Edison sued over secret Poland talks Shareholder says company erred in not disclosing

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2015/jul/09/edison-sued-san-onofre/#sanonofregate

Snip:

The lawsuit filed Monday at the U.S. District Court in San Diego alleges that Craver and Scilacci were personally motivated to make false statements and omit information about the settlement from Edison’s earlier financial reports in order to benefit from the sale of Edison stock in their own portfolios.

Days after the settlement proposal was announced in March 2014, Craver exercised stock options worth at least $5.6 million and Executive Vice President James Scilacci took home $3.7 million, according to federal filings by Edison.

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a representative shareholder, Harold Eng, by the New York-based securities law firm Pomerantz LLP, with offices in Beverly Hills. Attorneys handling the lawsuit did not respond to emails or phone calls.

(Web address http://pomerantzlawfirm.com/ added for clarity)

* #SanOnofreGate The new hashtag that will allow you to keep up to date on the ongoing investigation into the multi-billion $ SCE-CPUC ripoff.

By: Bill Gore

Bill Gore — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 13:37:11 +0000

San Onofre: The nightmare will NEVER end!! Built on top of a FAULT, right next to the ocean (tsunamis) with nowhere to send its many hot tons of spent fuel rods, which will be extremely toxic for millenia – truly an american engineer’s wet dream. And not one IOTA of accountability, of course, just an endlessly revolving door between industry and regulators. And the Peevey getting peeved and losing his cool in a public forum-NOT COOL. Someone get back to Mr.Peevey and tell him that Rule 1 of con men is you NEVER lose your cool, EVER. Icy, crisp as a fresh cucumber from the produce section. Cheers to Mike Aguirre-the last honest man in San Diego!

By: Dyspeptic

Dyspeptic — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 22:07:32 +0000

This article describes a classic example of regulatory capture, where a revolving door exists between regulators and the industries they are supposed to regulate. In an honest regulatory system high ranking executives from the regulated companies wouldn’t be allowed to become top regulators, or vice versa. Yet it happens all the time.

This scam is also very common at the Federal level, as is the revolving door between White House PR flacks and the establishment news media that act like extensions of the DNC.
Doofus Americanus doesn’t seem to care though. Too busy obsessing over Kardashian booty pics I guess.

Man what a stupid, complacent and repulsive country we have become. Love those government schools.