Hello, my name is Dave Shukla, and these comments are verbatim
what I wrote down whilst attending the CARB meeting yesterday
(6/23/22), elaborating on verbal public comment made via Zoom after
traveling back home to Long Beach.
For the past 25
years, since I was 17 years old in 1997 when my parents bought
their first and only home, I have been the ratepayer on record at
6333 E. Eliot St.
This is located directly across
the street from the Alamitos Generating Station at 690 N.
Studebaker Rd., rebranded as the "Alamitos Energy Center" by the
Applied Energy Systems Corporation of Alexandria, Virgina.
This a natural gas peaker literally in my backyard, so the
2022 CARB scoping plan affects me and my family quite directly.
The plan, which proposes increasingly this form of dirty,
polluting, leaking, gas-fired generation by 10 Gigawatts for energy
inputs, and reliance on disproven and highly energy and resource
intensive CCS / CCUS technology is entirely the wrong direction for
the State of California.
CARB should be aware that this
facility, whose primary public good and argument for continued
reinvestment is "reliability", was a net exporter out of the State
of California on August 15th, 2020, when California was 6 minutes
away from grid-failure, per the CAISO root cause analysis on that
near-miss carried out in 2021, and AES supplied data on its coastal
water quality impacts.
Two months later, the
overcharging of the long-distance high-powered transmission lines
from this facility, along with its role in offshore oil drilling
operations, was directly connected to the Silverado Fire, which
displaced 100,000 people.
Does CARB have reliable data
on the fugitive dust, escaped emissions, rate of methane leakage,
etc. from the 2017-2021 period of "repowering" of this
facility? Let alone the full-cost accounting of induced
climate effects, such as wildfires?
If so, please
share this critical environmental health and safety data that the
City of Long Beach and the County of Los Angeles have been unable
to secure for their residents, including those like my family who
have fenceline concerns.
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