N-Plant Ruling Appeal Pondered
An environmental group is deciding whether to appeal a state ruling that the San Onofre nuclear power plant does not appear to be violating its pollutant discharge permit.
Earth Island Institute attorney Steve Crandall said Tuesday that the state Regional Water Quality Control Board “ignored” its own staff as well as the California Coastal Commission and a panel of scientists, which found that the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station is damaging ocean habitat and fish populations.
Earth Island will decide in about two weeks whether to ask the state Water Quality Control Board to overturn the decision made when the regional board met in Encinitas on Monday.
Voting unanimously, the regional board agreed that “the evidence wasn’t clear one way or the other (that) the permit was being violated,” according to David Barker, a senior engineer for the board.
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