Susan Leal and Mayor Gavin Newsom are all set to place 3 Combustion Turbines near Bayview.

Mayor Gavin Newsom has just concluded attending many of the dog and pony shows during World Environment Day (WED) in San Francisco.

Now Mayor Gavin Newsom and Susan Leal from SF PUC are working hard to place 3 Combustion Turbines using very expensive fuel near Bayview. The site chosen is prone to liquefaction:

http://www.energy.ca.gov/sitingcases/sanfrancisco/description.html

Barbara Hale and Karen Kubick are fully aware that infants are dying and others are suffering from cancer. Some folks have blood on their hands.

Placing these very expensive fossil fuel Combustion Turbines will only help add to the pollution. The folks that will suffer will be those working near 3rd Street and Marin and people of color that mostly live this area.

These 3 toxic Combustion Turbines will spew PM-2.5 into the air. The cooling water used for these 3 CTs will be taken from a tank using treated sewage. This water will emit pathogens into the air. Mayor Gavin Newsom, Susan Leal, Jared Blumenfeld, Supervisor Sophie Maxwell - should read the Precautionary Principle.

We should first save people from dying. It is important to use products that do not pollute our Earth - but it makes sense first to use the Precautionary Principle to save human lives.

Where are all the environmentalists on this issue?

Where is the Examiner, Chronicle, other media on this critical issue?

We will have the required Transmission Lines in place by 2008. We really do not need Combustion Turbines. We are mandated to use Hetch Hetchy power at least 20% which is clean power from hyro.

We have just preached to the world that we want this world to be a better place. Now, that the Mayor and other have wagged their tongues - they are out to pollute the Bayview and kill our children.

Shame on those that do not understand the full meaning of Quality of Life issues. Shame on those that with intent want to adversely impact the lives of so many. Here we clearly have a Health and Safety issue.

Where is the Health Department on this issue? Where is Dr. Rajiv Bathia? Where is San Francisco Environment and Jared Blumenfeld? Where is Jesse Blout and the cronies that surround Mayor Gavin Newsom?

Francisco Da Costa
Director
Environmental Justice Advocacy