I received the following email last night from an area toxicologist who has been involved with efforts to shut down the San Onofre nuclear plant for some time and have no reason to doubt the facts of Mr. Johnson’s letter.

To: Mike Nichols; Lesa Heebner; David Ott; Dave Roberts; Tom
Campbell; Joe Kellejian
Subject: Radiation found in Downtown San Clemente Yesterday
Importance: High

Dear City Council Members and City Manager Ott,

Residents of San Clemente flew two citizens of Miyagi Prefecture near Fukushima Japan, to San Clemente this past Saturday for a public presentation to warn Californians about the horrors of nuclear power plant disasters.

The Japanese guests took their Geiger counters down to the crowded public beach in downtown San Clemente and found levels of radioactivity in the sand equal to those found on the beach in Miyagi Prefecture (near Fukushima) where children are developing tumors and cancer. This was yesterday here in Southern California! They also tested the inside of a home they were staying at in San Clemente and found radiation levels equal to those in their own homes in Miyagi Prefecture Japan!

The owners of the power plant, SCE and SDG&E operate the only radiation monitors within 50 miles of the power plant but do not share their radiation readings with the public on a real-time basis. They must have known about these levels but have said nothing.

It is unclear if this radiation is due to the “minor leaks” that SCE admitted to a week ago, or from the 40 years of constant venting of radioactive material that the NRC has allowed San Onofre to quietly do on a regular basis, or from the radioactive fallout from Fukushima one year ago. Either way this news is alarming as Solana Beach is only 30 miles from San Onofre via the north westerly winds
that blow on a regular basis.

Stunned by the finding,

Torgen Johnson
Solana Beach

Not surprising, but it appears that our government has succumbed once again to the influence of big business.

A well-intended initiative has been distorted by an extremely biased report from the Legislative Analyst’s Office which considers every imaginable and invented negative fiscal impact that might come from closing down our two nuclear power plants in California. Little consideration at all is given to the devastating effects an accident at either of these plants would have on our economy.

A poll in the OC Register (intentionally or not) uses these distortions to sway public opinion against closure of these plants. You can help to correct this imbalance by voting YES right now before the poll closes. You should see a place to vote just below the short article, right before the Comments section. There should be two circular buttons (not triangles) which will allow you to vote. Please be aware that you may need to refresh the screen to see it properly, as this has been a problem reported by others.

Please send this request to all your contacts. Thanks for being part of the solution. (Current voting is at 444 YES to 583 NO)

http://taxdollars.ocregister.com/2011/11/23/poll-would-you-vote-to-shut-down-san-onofre/139673/

I recently came across an article referenced on the KPBS website which I found troubling. What stopped me was the contrasting, definitive “probably not” which could just as easily been “possibly, yes.”

Mr. Charles Q. Choi’s article is uncomfortably reminiscent of the studies financed by the tobacco industry which claimed that cigarette smoking was not harmful.

The author neglected to mention the number of fracking sites, as well as the amount of – and rate at which – fracking material is injected. That the compounds within the fracking material are flat-out poisonous, is another conversation.

According to testimony by the governor of Oklahoma this past week over 95,000 well sites in the state had been fracked.

According to Dr. Robert Myers compelling article 4-7 million gallons of fracking compound are injected at high pressure into our earth for each site.

Using a conservative 5,000,000 as a working number, that’s about 475,000,000,000 gallons of material, at an injection rate of, “up to 100 MPa (15,000 psi) and 265 L/s (100 barrels per minute)” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_fracturing).

There is no disputing the number of earthquakes which accompany fracking operations. I am certain that many readers would like to see a list of Mr. Choi’s referenced seismologists (and their employers) as an addendum to this article.

In a recent related article, seismologist Austin Holland is quoted as having said, “”You have an earthquake that occurs, and that changes the stress ever so slightly next to it, and so another earthquake occurs, and it’s just sort of like a zipper unzipping. It kind of just goes down the line.”

Dr. Randy Keller’s statement, “We have an unstable situation here, and it’s one reason why oil and gas is available here in the first place,” raises a host of other questions.

Leaving the spectre of long-term poisoning of our nation’s fresh water to wall street speculators, tree-huggers, and hippie-environmentalists, it would be a pity if Scientific American was discovered to be skewing facts in order to be a public relations venue for the oil and gas industries.

It seems like a science-fiction plot: Geneticists modifying the food that people eat and no one knows that they’re eating it. Corrupt politicians in the pockets of lobbyists and multi-national corporations have decided to use the population of the United States for testing.

The once widely prescribed drug Thalidomide did not not begin to reveal problems until women who had taken the compound began giving birth to deformed children.

Monsanto, General Mills, and other corporate citizens know that given the choice, consumers prefer to purchase non-genetically manipulated foods and food products.

Click the image, sign the petition and support your right to know what you are eating and what you are feeding your loved ones.

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With President Obama’s administration wholesale parceling out of Arctic region drilling permits, the history of the Deepwater Horizon may be prologue for an event which would impact the foundation of our planet’s ocean food chain.

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