[NukeNet] California coastal commission sued over nuclear power plant (Diablo Canyon)

[MoJo]

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2007/01/12/state/n004515S83.DTL
   
  California coastal commission sued over nuclear power plant 
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Friday, January 12, 2007 

    (01-12) 00:45 PST Los Angeles (AP) --     An environmental group has sued state coastal regulators, alleging they violated state laws by authorizing a project at a nuclear power plant without requiring its operator to follow measures to ease the facility's damaging impacts on the central coast.
    The Coastal Law Enforcement Action Network is challenging the Coastal Commission's decision to approve the replacement of two steam generators at the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant north of San Luis Obispo.
    The project is intended to extend the life of the plant. Without the new generators, the Pacific Gas and Electric Company would have to shut down the facility by 2014, according to the civil suit filed Thursday in San Francisco Superior Court.
    The suit said the commission held hearings and considered a staff review of the plant's environmental impact on the coastline. But the commission also approved the project without following a staff recommendation to impose mitigation measures, according to the suit.
    The lawsuit claimed violations of the California Coastal Act and other environmental and land use laws. The environmental group, based in Playa Del Rey, is asking the court to invalidate the commission's decision.
    "For the Commission to ignore the staff's recommendations related to mitigation was unconscionable, and is a clear violation of the law," said plaintiff's attorney David Weinsoff.
    An after hours call Thursday to the Coastal Commission was not immediately returned.
  
URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2007/01/12/state/n004515S83.DTL 


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