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Communistic Anti-Choice Aggravation: Marin "Dirty" Energy In Big Trouble

Well, well, well.

CCA has SCAM written all over it!

Who would have thought?

Actually, the conservatives in the South Bay and throughout Southern California have been sounding the alarm about this program for the last two years.

Before anyone else, Tracy Hopkins of Hermosa Beach has been fighting this corrupt perversion of city government, warning residents to "Say No to CCA!"

Now Marin County supervisors are feeling the heat!

From: Jim Phelps <jimphelps56@gmail.com>

Subject: Marin Clean Energy -- manipulated GHG numbers

Date: May 19, 2017 at 5:09:42 PM PDT

To: Kathrin Sears <KSears@MarinCounty.org>

Cc: tom.butt@intres.com, ASchwartzman@ci.benicia.ca.us, sloancbailey@yahoo.com, glyman@ci.el-cerrito.ca.us, barbaracoler@gmail.com, dtatzin@lovelafayette.org, smcentee@cityofmillvalley.org, brad.wagenknecht@countyofnapa.org, Denise Athas <dathas@aol.com>, rrussell@sflaw.com, fordgreene@comcast.net, andrew.mccullough@cityofsanrafael.org, Ray Withy <rwithy@ci.sausalito.ca.us>, "emmett@vikingind.com" <emmett@vikingind.com>

May 19, 2017

Kate Sears, Supervisor, County of Marin

Chair, Marin Clean Energy

1125 Tamalpais Avenue

San Rafael, CA 94901

Dear Ms. Sears:

The link https://marinpost.org/blog/2017/5/17/mces-latest-ghg-numbers-put-agency-at-odds-with-reality discusses MCE’s skewed annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emission rate numbers, per yesterday’s MCE board meeting.  MCE’s numbers understate its actual emissions by nearly 40%.  MCE’s use of financial instruments to hide dirty energy, plus MCE’s failure to report other dirty power, may serve MCE’s bottom line, but your agency undermines truth & transparency for all consumers who truly want to make informed choices about their “clean” energy, and about climate change.    

In comparative terms, this latest emission year (CY2015) MCE claims a GHG emission rate that is 20% lower than PG&E's, yet your actual number is 30% higher than PG&E's. 

I request a meeting with you in order to discuss solving MCE’s persistent integrity problems.  

I note that you ceased communications with me in late 2014 when MCE’s CEO, Dawn Weisz, wrote me a letter that explained that altering MCE’s 2011 GHG number more than a year after-the-fact with paper certificates was a “true up.”  Per public records, Ms. Weisz altered MCE’s greenhouse gas number immediately before publicly advertising the GHG emission rate, prompting the attached PDF.  

Please contact me so that we can begin in-person discussions toward solving the persistent integrity problems at MCE.

Sincerely,

Jim Phelps

John Kasich for President in 2020? Please Go Away, RINO Johnnie!

John Kasich.

The governor of Ohio has to sign off on conservative reforms because of a hard-core, supermajority Republican legislature.

As Presidential contender, all he wanted to do was make nice and preach hollow niceties all while abandoning conservative principles and pushing a smarmy liberalism that taxes us into oblivion and forcing higher spending.

Give me a break.

Check out this report from Kyle Plantz of the New Hampshire Insider:

2020 Presidential Rumors Abound With John Kasich Back in NH.But Is It Too Early?

The flurry of activity in the Granite State this week has some calling it the start of the 2020 New Hampshire primary. Former Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley held some meet-and-greets and a town hall meeting on Sunday, and former Vice President Joe Biden is headlining the state Democratic Party’s fundraising dinner on April 30. Smack dab in the middle of the two Democrats is Republican Gov. John Kasich, who visited the state on Thursday to promote his new book.

It felt like a reunion of sorts for Kasich, his team, and over 200 supporters who came to hear him speak at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College. In a small gathering before his speech, he thanked key allies for their help during the 2016 Republican presidential primary. Even though Kasich was in the state in August to campaign for Gov. Chris Sununu in his gubernatorial bid, it’s his first foray back to New Hampshire since Trump won the White House.

John Kasich is now the anti-Trump Establishment favorite.

They can control him, they know that he will make nice and play along with special interests, including the Chamber of Commerce Main Street Crowd.

He wants to grant amnesty to 11 million illegal aliens. He has already jumped in bed with the Big Green renewable energy lobby, which is more government subsidy than energy independence.

And he's the outgoing governor of Ohio, the swing state which old-timey Republican operatives still see as the swing of all swing states, and the lynchpin for any future national efforts.

He also lasted slightly longer than Ted Cruz, whom the Republican Establishment loathed just as much as Trump.

Of course, there was an elephant in the room (and not just because the room was chock full of Republicans): is Kasich going to run for president again in 2020? Those waiting with bated breath will have to wait a bit longer.

“People ask why I am back,” Kasich said. “I am back to sell books.”

Selling books? Romney played the same game shortly after his losing 2008 bid for the Presidency. In 2012, he had tried to tack a similar line and failed. The working-class white vote which Trump scooped up and won with did not turn out for Romney.

The Evangelical vote also sat out the election.

Remember that the Chamber of Commerice, Big Business phalanx of the Republican Party wanted Romney and also wanted Jeb in 2016, then switched to Kasich, who in turn complied with their demands for cheaper labor and corporate cronyism.

His new book, “Two Paths: America Divided or United,” came out on Tuesday and one of his first stops in his book tour was New Hampshire, so it’s easy to see where the 2020 speculation comes from.

He mostly talked about his 2016 campaign and national politics, with some advice to his followers who are unhappy with President Donald Trump.

“In course of running for president, something happened to me that never happened before,” he said. “I was, like, so boring, you know, and boring didn’t cut it.”

Kasich finished second in last year’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary, far behind Trump (35 percent to 16 percent). Yet, Kasich spent more time in the state than any other candidate, holding more than 100 town halls during the primary.

Still for all of that work, Kasich came up short.

100 town halls, and he barely edged into second place, and kept other candidates at bay against Donald Trump. It's not surprise, since Kasich was out of touch with the desires of the Republican base as well as the growing concerns of the general American electorate. Would Kasich have had any kind of chance of winning Pennsylvania? Wisconsin?

Nope. He did not respect the guns and the Bibles of the same Middle America which Obama had scorned two months before Election Day 2008.

Now he wants to sell books. Lets see what the sales turn out to be ...

Kasich is still popular in the Granite State, and he said he had a feeling he would return often because he has many friends here, so he could become a regular face in these parts over the next three years.

What about this book?

Breitbart reports on one section of his campaign fundraiser:

In Two Paths: America Divided or United, Kasich blamed Trump’s electoral win on groups ranging from the media to dishonest politicians, but he also said one of the main reasons Trump won was because of the spiritual decline in America.

Excuse me?

This coming from the same guy who said "I am past the gay marriage issue," who believed in the freedom of worship (restricting freedom of conscience) and incarceration of bakers and florists who don't want to assist the celebration of same-sex weddings.

For the record, the Evangelical vote exceeded by a wide margin the 2008 and the 2012 elections. Christian voters saw the damage done by the secularizing Obama Administration, and the imminent threats to the First Amendment. The wide phalanx of voters confronted the stark contrast and feared the worst should Wicked Hillary become President.

They voted their Bible. They demonstrated true religious fervor in voting for Trump.

Yet Kasich slams America's voters as suffers of moral decline.

Kasich the man is insufferable.

So much so, that national Republican officials have declared that they want nothing more to do with that selfish Ohio Governor. I don't blame them. Kasich is a "me-player" not a team player.

He's an insufferable liberal masuerading as a Republican. He shames conservatives and moderates with this religious veneer, while at the same time agreeing that freedom of conscience is not a right worth fighting for.

Whatever he may have done in Ohio, much of it rests on a conservative legislature which passed key bills to stop waste, fraud, and union abuse. For all ofhis well-placed attempts in the first two years of his tenure, he caved on too many issues afterwards. His influence in the Ohio state party has also waned, as his favorite to head the state party lost to Donald Trump's pick.

Honestly, though, a Kasich run may be just the thing to thoroughly demoralize the Big Business/Big Amnesty/Make Nice wing of the Republican National Committee.

Wouldn't that be great?

We the People Fight Against Big Green in Redondo Beach, CA

We the People Rising, including members of the San Bernardino team, came down to Redondo Beach, CA to tell the city council to stop Community Choice Aggregation.

At least 13 people spoke out against Community Choice Aggregation.

A number of residents whom I did not expect to see there spoke out, including Sandy Wilson-White and her husband, Gary Mlynek, and Edwin Duterte also attended.

The meeting went on for a faily long time, but that did not stop the resolve of our team to put full pressure on Redondo Beach City Council to say no to CCA!

Check out what Grindall61 had to say about this crappy, corrupt, and sinister program!

Of course, after the extensive and researched information presented to the city council, here's the final vote:

Here were key speeches from the rest of the team:

A couple of reflections:

Two of the people who voted to continue the study are hard-core on the whole Big Green phenomenon.

They don't care about how much money it will save or how much it will end up costing the taxpayers of Redondo Beach. The whole scam is about feeling good, that they are doing something to save the planet.

FYI, Mayor Bill Brand gave a six minute--six!--presentation celebrating Earth Day.

Unreal.

The people who spoke in favor of CCA focused on emotion--and how much they worshipped 350 Joe Galliani.

UGH!

The people of Redondo Beach should start throwing chairs if their elected officials refuse to get their act together. This is ridiculous.

It's time to pull the plug on this Big Green crap once and for all!

Say No to Community Choice Aggregation: City Commissions Explains Why

Dear Commissioners, 

During my time on planning commission I analyzed many complex issues. Recently, I was made aware of Community Choice Aggregation and its potential implementation in Huntington Beach. After reviewing the history of CCAs and power generation, existing implementations and the stated pros and cons I must strongly recommend a NO vote on CCA for the following reasons: 

1. “Green Energy” and Renewables are a failure wherever they are implemented. Simply put, Renewables cannot compete with traditional sources of energy either fiscally or reliably. At this moment renewables are entirely dependent on subsidies from Federal and State sources. As we see in South Australia, over reliance on wind power has created severe blackouts.
2. “Greenwashing”. The only way CCAs can claim to “bring Green Power” to an area is with the complex shell game of RECs (Renewable Energy Certificates). Every time a renewable power plant generates one MW of energy a renewable energy certificate or REC is generated. Here energy consultant Jim Phelps describes the Shell Game of renewable energy certificates “Most of MCE’s (Marin Clean Energy) Deep Green energy is based on a paper trading scheme, known as a Renewable Energy Certificate (REC). Each REC is produced by a renewable energy resource, such as a windfarm in Washington or an industrial scale solar farm somewhere in the US. One REC represents one megawatt- hour (MWh) of energy from the windfarm. In the case of MCE, Washington keeps the wind energy and MCE buys its inexpensive RECs, giving MCE the right to tell everyone it is the one that’s green -- not the wind farm. But since MCE still needs to deliver actual electricity to its Marin customers, it purchases cheap gas-fired power, then reports that REC to governing agencies. Voila -- “clean” gas-fired energy! And it’s all perfectly legal. Legal, yes. But not particularly ethical or responsible to MCE customers, some of whom, thanks to MCE’s misleading marketing tactics, still believe they get “green electricity” through their light sockets.”
3. The Fallacy of energy “Delivery”. CCAs claim to “bring” green power to your area. From a REC presentation in 2011 comes the CA definition of “Energy Delivery” and how RECs are used to mislabel power. The Western Regional Grid is interconnected by nature, power cannot be “delivered” from one destination to the next due to the fungibility of electricity.

1. 1. For RPS compliance, electricity is deemed delivered if either generated at a location within state, or scheduled for consumption by California end-use retail customers. 
   2. Electricity generated by facilities located in-state or having their first point of interconnection to WEC transmission system in-state satisfies California RPS delivery requirements. 
   3. Electricity may be delivered into California, at different time than when RPS-certified facility generated electricity per Cal. Public Resources Code § 25741(a). 
   4. Delivered electricity may also be generated at a different location than that of RPS-certified facility. 
   5. PPA must include both RECs and electricity generated by facility as bundled commodity, and matching quantity of electricity must be delivered to in-state market hub (a.k.a. a “zone) or an in-state point of delivery (a.k.a. a “node”) which is located within California.
   6. For out-of-state generators, RPS-eligible generation from an out- of-state project that is “scheduled . . . into a California balancing authority without substituting electricity from another source” qualifies as an “in-state product.” Intended to enable out-of-state projects that have firm transmission rights and the corresponding right to schedule and deliver power into California to qualify for the most advantageous of the three (REC) portfolio categories as effectively an in-state bundled sale. May potentially provide broad exemption from limitations on transactions involving both firmed and shaped products and unbundled RECs for existing projects.

4) Current political climate. CCAs are entirely dependent on subsidized renewable energy. As we see with the Trump Administration's moves with EPA and pronouncements on Climate Change it is likely that subsidies for renewables will be curtailed. On March 16th OMB Director Mulvaney went so far as to say “As to Climate Change we’re not spending money on that anymore, we consider that a waste of your money”. If and When the subsidies are lowered or removed CCAs will no longer be viable yet the contracts binding SBCTA and other COGs will be in place jeopardizing consumer’s access to energy and opening the door to massive lawsuits.

5) The Key to Renewables is Storage. A lack of electrical energy storage facilities in transmission systems leads to a key limitation. Electrical energy must be generated at the same rate at which it is consumed. A sophisticated control system is required to ensure that the power generation very closely matches the demand. If the demand for power exceeds supply, the imbalance can cause generation plant(s) and transmission equipment to automatically disconnect and/or shut down to prevent damage. In the worst case, this may lead to a cascading series of shut downs and a major regional blackout. Examples include the US Northeast blackouts of 1965, 1977, 2003, and major blackouts in other US regions in 1996 and 2011. Electric transmission networks are interconnected into regional, national, and even continent wide networks to reduce the risk of such a failure by providing multiple redundant, alternative routes for power to flow should such shut downs occur. Transmission companies determine the maximum reliable capacity of each line (ordinarily less than its physical or thermal limit) to ensure that spare capacity is available in the event of a failure in another part of the network. 

A few weeks ago the ACC-OC held a meeting in HB regarding CCA implementation, here are a few quotes from the panelists that, inadvertently, make the case against CCA.

Jason Caudle, Deputy City Manager Lancaster: “you can't do it cheaper and greener then SCE, We have not seen cheaper energy” (this is a complete refutation of CCA’s viability)

“not as great a margin on residential service”

“PCIA (Power Charge Indifference Adjustment, the price consumer’s pay to be released from the IOU) must make SCE whole, we have no idea what that costs, SCE working on model now, biggest unknown for CCA”

“DOE says the stimulus money can be used for CCA”

Ryan Baron: Worked for the city of Orange for 12 years implementing environmental programs. 

“City will be in the energy business; very sophisticated business, you need experts, it’s expensive and risky to start JPA”

Dawn Weisz, CEO of Marin Clean Energy: “The tax subsidies are expiring; not a big deal, except for solar, New (electricity) storage will be required. (there is no viable solution for mass energy storage available)

“Low income people, big opportunity to get them on solar or a free car”

“MCE built $50 million surplus in the last seven years.” (remember, if they're making that much money it’s coming out of the ratepayers pocket)

As you can see, CCA will endanger ratepayers access to affordable energy and is far too risky to be implemented at this time.

Please contact me if you require more information.

Yours truly, 

Michael Hoskinson

Former Planning Commissioner, City of Huntington Beach

mikehosk@me.com

Torrance City Council: Reject Community Choice Aggregation

To the Torrance City Council:

I was told that this Community Choice Aggregation program was not on the horizon.

But here we are today, discussing this program, whether the city should direct staff to continue exploring the costs of this program

Why not save ourselves, the staff, and the city’s taxpayers time and money.

CCA should be DOA. Community Choice Aggregation will not help the community, it will not promote choice, and it will aggregate power to the few at the expense of the rest.

The program is an unjust  and inefficient  invasion of the government

The proposed CCA JPA would inhibit local control of each city that participates.

CCA will not lower costs, but actually raise them. San Francisco had to suspend the program after  losing $4 million in investments. There are promises with no facts to back them up, and when the CCA fails, the taxpayers are stuck footing the bill.

Hermosa Beach is already reconsidering these proposals, since more residents are learning about the prohibitive costs associated with the program. The City of Lancaster has run into unprecedented cost overruns.

In Redondo Beach, the city must revote whether to continue further study into this wasteful Big Green Boondoggle. Councilwoman Laure Emdee reminded her colleagues that other pressing issues should receive the time and resources of city staff. I agree with her.

I would like to remind you that the man in charge of the South Bay Clean Power Advisory Committee is Joe Galliani. He clearly stated before the South Bay Air Quality Management District that the Torrance Refinery must be shut down. I could not disagree more with such an extreme policy. I concur with the 5-2 vote rejecting the resolution banning MHF last week.

If you oppose CCA, you're fat!
(and I am liar)

Galliani has harassed residents in Hermosa Beach because of their support for carbon energy. He demeans all critics and skeptics of global warming as “climate deniers” and referred to the refinery  owners as “mafia dons.” He has personally attacked me and others. Such hostile behavior suggests desperation to silence dissent rather than welcome an honest discussion of fact, evidences, and biological proofs.

The pressure for non-carbon forms of energy is based on an epic number of skewed data and false science, all of which claim that heated, extensive government intervention is required, or we will all be drowned underneath melted polar icecaps. It’s not the case.

Reject CCA. Vote no on  Item 9C and cease wasting time and resources exploring this Big Green Boondoggle.

Thank you.

Beach Cities Republicans Update: Redondo Beach, CCA, and Sanctuary Cities, Oh My!

Hello Beach Cities Republicans!

We have seen some notable victories in the South Bay, despite the growing backlash againsnt Donald Trump.

1.       Rex Tillerson, Trump’s Secretary of State, has cut the fat out of the state department.

2.       The Keystone Pipeline has been approved.

3.       Jobs are up—way up: 238,000 added in the last month—more announcements to come

4.       ICE is arresting and deporting illegal aliens at a rapid pace.

5.       Conservatives including members of the Beach Cities Republicans) stormed corrupt, lawless Attorney General Xavier Becerra, and shut down his corrupt campaign stop/town hall in Ontario California

6.       Republican Art Kaskanian won a seat on the Gardena City Council (now the first Republican at this time on the council). Tasha Cerda, a Democrat who supported David Hadley, won her bid to be the next mayor of Gardena.

7.       Republicans attended the March 21 Redondo Beach City Council meeting, too, and witnessed the defeat of the Big Green Agenda, a fight which Hermosa Beach resident and BCR Secretary-Treasurer Tracy Hopkins has been waging for the last eight years.

Well … our side is very close to winning.

Apparently, Redondo Beach has to revote whether to pursue or abandon Community Choice Aggregation (CCA).

So, we need your help!

Please contact the city councilmembers, and tell them to reject the Big Government, Big Tyranny Boondoogle!

Click on this link to contact the Redondo Beach City Council:

Martha Barbee

Bill Brand

Laura Emdee

Christian Horvath

John Gran

Todd Loewenstein

We need all South Bayt residents to attend the April 4^th, 2017 Redondo Beach City Council meeting to voice opposition to Community Choice Aggregation.

Also, please sign up and help Martha Barbee for her re-election bid. Her presence on that Redondo Beach City Council is crucial for the future growth and prosperity of that Beach City!

Please click on this link for more information. Her election is May 16!

Also:

Please attend the Torrance City Council meeting for the following:

1. Demand full enforcement of our immigration laws—current, the Torrance Police Department is not requesting ICE detainers for illegal aliens. Click here for more information.

2. Demand a resolution opposing SB 54, a bill which if passed would turn the entire state of California into a sanctuary state.

Here’s the agenda for more information.

Tuesday, March 28, 2017, 7:00pm (you can come later for Oral Communications #2)

Torrance City Council Chambers

3031 Torrance Blvd.

Torrance, CA 90503

If there are any other events coming up, let me know!

See you soon! Let’s keep working to Make California Great Again!

Sincerely,

Arthur Schaper

President, Beach Cities Republicans