Subject: Energy Technology

• San Francisco Taxi Rates To Rise Pending Health Care Plan: SFGovernmentInAction

  October 1, 2007

• The Prop. H Campaign's Big Lie

  October 20, 2008

• "You Go Down to Moscone Convention Facilities. It's Compostable." And Other Gavin Newsom Environmental Insights from the State of the City Address

  Does Gavin Newsom turn into Stalin when the moon is full? By Benjamin Wachs (This is State of the Citysode III: The Environment. Click here for Part II: Education, and Part 1: Health Care) 00:00 - Gavin begins philosophically. "I like to say that the world's consumption is the sum of all local consumption." Well, he's blown my mind already. 00:35 - "SF Forward" is a five year plan to curb our carbon and consumption. You know, given how inevitable comparisons were between Gavin an

  December 4, 2008

• Central Coast Weekly Blasts Chron's Environmental Coverage

  While the San Francisco Chronicle is busy fêting itself with daily retrospectives, journalists beyond the walls of 901 Mission are sounding a less complimentary note. In an editorial published last week, the weekly Carmel Pine Cone takes the Chron to task for its reporting on environmental questions looming over the Central Coast's Moss Landing power plant (pictured), stating that Chron environmental writer Jane Kay "is trying her best to get into the Hall of Fame for Bad Reporting." At issue

  January 19, 2009

• PG&E Steals SF Activists' Thunder -- Make That Sunlight -- With New Solar Power Plan

  David BlaikieMore attractive than ever.San Francisco-based utility Pacific Gas & Electric Co. announced yesterday that it will be undertaking a $1.5 billion project to produce more solar energy for its customers throughout the state. The initiative, which includes plans to build new solar-power plants, represents the company's first direct investment in renewable power production in more than 10 years. The announcement, which picked up plenty of state and national headlines this morning, ea

  February 25, 2009

• Neighborhood Group Sues City over Bayview Hunters Point Biodiesel Plant

  If a neighborhood group has its way, it may be a while before you see a scene such as this in San FranciscoA Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood group last week filed suit against the city planning department alleging San Francisco trampled environmental laws when it exempted a proposed biodiesel plant from having to undergo an Environmental Impact Report back in 2008. Back in September, the city ruled that Darling International's plan to add a biodiesel facility capable of producing 7.5 million

  March 9, 2009

• Billionaire Oilman's Traveling Green Energy Road Show Hits S.F.

  Daniel KramerT. Boone PickensAs Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens hits San Francisco tonight in his ongoing tour promoting a curtailing of foreign oil imports and a bolstering of domestic clean energy (in which he is invested to the gills), a long, strange article about Pickens' long, strange trip hit the racks of our sister paper, the Minneapolis City Pages.  Here are a few choice passages from Chris Vogel's story about Pickens, as unlikely a figure as ever to be embraced in green, progres

  March 25, 2009

• Green Scheme

  January 14, 2009

• The Eyes Have It

  Cheryl Meeker's show about the effects of nuclear dust requires more than passive viewing.

  November 12, 2008

• Fortunate Sun

  September 17, 2008

• SF Weekly Letters

  August 20, 2008

• November ballot measures promise eco-confusion

  August 6, 2008

• Public Power Grab

  Why some "progressives" are putting energy into a bad idea.

  July 16, 2008

• Cooking with Gas

  December 5, 2007

• The Pro-Bacon Lobby

  January 17, 2007

• Hemp and Housing

  September 13, 2006

• The Tide Is High

  June 14, 2006

• A Bridge Too Costly

  The city's way of contracting out public works construction is broken — so much so that companies are not bidding on important municipal projects and that could cost us billions

  May 31, 2006

• Shuck, Swallow, Repeat

  September 28, 2005

• First SF Weekly Sharpie Literary Awards

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  June 18, 2003

• Nuclear, Dude

  January 8, 2003

• Mirant's Morass

  The plan to build a massive new power plant in San Francisco -- once thought inevitable -- hits a few snags

  April 24, 2002

• Attack of the Self-Serving Pol!

  A deft film in which a southland legislator and lazy journalists rewrite history, blame Enron for the energy crisis, and leave Sacramento corruption untouched

  February 13, 2002

• Apples and Oranges; Water Fight

  December 19, 2001

• The New Economy

  The road to Punta Abreojos is paved with hollow intentions

  November 21, 2001

• Will Blackouts Be Back?

  November 14, 2001

• Some People Have All the Luck

  And then there's developer Michael Strausz

  August 29, 2001

• Letters to the Editor

  August 1, 2001

• Power Politics

  Two major S.F. energy projects are in the works. Do we need both? The question isn't really being discussed.

  August 1, 2001

• Letters to the Editor

  Power to the People; A Love/Hate Relationship

  July 18, 2001

• The November Wild Card

  July 4, 2001

• Gray Skies

  If Gov. Davis has his way, California soon will have dozens of new power plants -- a lot of them in the wrong places, some of them unnecessary, and very, very few of them based on renewable energy

  July 4, 2001

• "They're Hijacking Our Rally!"

  Opponents of the Potrero Hill power plant expansion could use a lesson in organization.

  July 4, 2001

• Contract Killings

  How the state's contracts with crucial electric power providers actually encourage them to gouge us

  May 30, 2001

• Russian Roulette

  The Western Pacific gray whale, once thought extinct, clings to life in a remote Siberian sea. Biologists fear their research is serving as cover for massive oil drilling that could wipe out this lost tribe once and for all.

  April 25, 2001

• MUD in Your Eye

  A small group wants to foist a municipal utility district on the city without evidence its version of "public power" will work. Demand evidence.

  April 4, 2001

• Delusions of Power

  April 4, 2001

• Don't Let Them Turn Out the Lights

  It's time for consumers to take back California

  January 31, 2001

• Letters to the Editor

  Letters from January 10, 2001

  January 10, 2001

• Power Politics

  Why a retreat from electricity deregulation is a victory for PG&E, and a loss for you and me

  September 20, 2000

• Best New Tech Space

  May 17, 2000

• Unlocking the Secrets of Fusion

  May 27, 1998

• Imbalance of Power

  December 31, 1997

• PG&E Is All Charged Up

  The S.F.-based utility embarks on a nationwide buying spree

  May 14, 1997

• Letters

  April 26, 1995

• Letters

  April 19, 1995

• Whirly Birds

  The wind-power entrepreneurs at Kenetech have spent millionsin vain tosolve this avian mystery: Why have hundredsof raptors, including golden eagles, died alongside the windmills of Altamont Pass?

  March 29, 1995

• SF Gov InAction: Gavin Newsom Will Be Told That David Chiu Is Rejecting MUNI's Budget Sometime In Early 2011

  From a numerical standpoint, the Supes are finally getting their act together. At the beginning of the year, we were lucky if they made it through four meetings a week. Now they're hitting six or seven almost every time. That's the good news. The bad news is that the number of meetings apparently has no relationship to the quality of work done. Perhaps that means what we really need is a "slow legislation" movement in which proposals made of fresh ingredients are allowed to stew in their

  May 4, 2009

• No Smoking: City Attorney Announces Settlement to Shut Mirant Potrero Power Plant 'Irrevocably' By 2010

  Joe EskenaziCity Attorney Dennis Herrera delivers the big news, backed by (from left) PUC head Ed Harrington, Supervisor Sophie Maxwell, and former Board of Supes President Aaron Peskin​The answer has been revealed to the "mystery settlement" announced yesterday by City Attorney Dennis Herrera. And as soon as we saw Supervisor Sophie Maxwell and Public Utilities Commission head Ed Harrington in the City Hall elevator, we guessed it -- it's Mirant! Herrera this morning signed off on a settl

  August 13, 2009

• Local Eco-Conference Swaps Press Passes for Ad Placement

  Being forced to trade adspace for media coverage of an event is not the current journalistic norm. Sadly, it may become commonplace in the future.​ In the impending newspaperless world dreaded by journalists, and glowingly touted by futurists, we'll all be glorified ad-salespeople, burnishing our individual "brands", diversifying into, who knows, NASCAR-style product placement?British publicist Maria Ferreiro seems to be hip to U.S. reporters' recession-induced desperation. She responded Thurs

  September 10, 2009