PG&E Responds To Petition and Letter
I wrote a letter to PG&E to accompany the petition that was collected by our many volunteers in October. Today I received a response from PG&E’s Vice President of Energy Supply, Roy M. Kuga.
The most important thing in the letter I received was the following declaration by Mr. Kuga:
“PG&E is not presently considering this project as a potential electricity resource…”
This is great news for Mountain House!
This is a very big thing to have this information coming straight from the pen of a top official at PG&E. I think we can all breathe a lot easier now about the immediacy of the threat of the plant being constructed. Unless there is someone to sell the power to, the plant will not be built.
While we are celebrating this very significant victory, we should recognize that this is not a guarantee that the plant could not still be built at some point in the future. It does still have valid permits until 2011 (subject to some amendments). Note the use of the hedge “not presently” in the statement above. I think we have to interpret this as meaning it has not been ruled out in the future.
With those caveats in mind, this is a big victory for our community and I want to thank everybody for their support and help. I will post the full text of the letter shortly.