San Francisco Pushing Fossil Fuels Over Green Energy
Dozens of Bayview residents waited for hours for the chance of speaking for two minutes in opposition of the power plants. The sad fact is that if these power plants were proposed for South of Market near some of the new luxury condo skyscrapers, the peaker plant proposal would have been dead on arrival. Van Jones, founder of the Ella Baker Center and an opponent of the power plants, has pointed out that putting the resources into clean energy would create green-collar jobs for the same community that is now being targeted for decades of continued air pollution.
Dozens of Bayview residents waited for hours for the chance of speaking for two
minutes in opposition of the power plants. The sad fact is that if these power
plants were proposed for South of Market near some of the new luxury condo
skyscrapers, the peaker plant proposal would have been dead on arrival.
Van Jones, founder of the Ella Baker Center and an opponent of the power
plants, has pointed out that putting the resources into clean energy would
create green-collar jobs for the same community that is now being targeted for
decades of continued air pollution.
I’ve been advocating for the creation
of a green jobs program at City College, to train the under-employed in
disadvantaged communities for jobs in solar and other renewable energy fields.
These efforts would be hastened by a large investment in solar power on the
scale of the peaker plants.
