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Health & Fitness

If Measure A Doesn't Pass..Get Out Your Wallet...A New Power Plant Will Cost Redondo Beach Millions

What is the cost if someone you love gets sick because of all the additional PARTICULATE MATTER from this proposed new highly polluting plant? You can't put a price tag on that.

AES said the new plant wouldn't cost Redondo Beach a dime. Many citizens of Redondo Beach disagree. This is not China where AES rolled in and polluted the heck out of the place and the citizens couldn't do anything about it.  Stand up and Vote Yes on Measure A on Tuesday March 5th.  If you don't, it is likely we will pay dearly via diminished property values, noise pollution, landscape pollution, air pollution, higher health costs, and exposure to particulate matter which can cause asthma, lung disease, autism, cancer, headaches, premature births, etc. We will likely get gouged with inflated electricity costs based on AES's track record of plant stoppages/slow downs. Even if AES had a permit to run a new plant (which they don't) it appears the risk of opposing a new plant via a zoning change is worth it when you consider the alternative...lost revenue and, more importantly, particulate matter related poor health issues and deaths. AES has this sense of entitlement related to a new plant. Call me crazy, but I don't know why they think they can sue us for taking something they don't have (a new plant permit)? The zoning change doesn't effect their current operation. It appears the zoning change creates a situation that allows them to continue operating until the end of their contract (2020 +-) but, sorry, after that they don't have a mandate for a new power plant. Don't accept these ancillary costs pro power plant supporters expect us to burden. Add up the lost revenue due to: "Honey Look at that Gross Redondo Power Plant! Let's go to somewhere else."  Or, more importantly...How much does it cost to fight Cancer?  Vote Yes on Measure A.

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