Groups continue push for video webcast of San Onofre hearings

[bananas]

Source: Los Angeles Times

An initial round of hearings was set to begin Monday in a California Public Utilities Commission investigation of the costs to ratepayers from the San Onofre nuclear plant's ongoing outage.

Activists were incensed that a CPUC administrative law judge ruled against allowing videotaping of the hearings, which are set to take place in San Francisco, far from the plant's location in northern San Diego County.

State law requires the public utilities commission to launch an investigation and consider lowering or refunding rates when a plant has been out of service for nine months. San Onofre's outage due to faulty equipment has now dragged on for more than a year.

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Women's Energy Matters and other groups planned to protest the decision, saying that videotaping has been allowed at other hearings in the past, and that many people who live in the vicinity of the plant are unable to travel to San Francisco to attend.

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Read more: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-san-onofre-hearing-20130513,0,1559102.story

[SunSeeker]

1. Looks like the CPUC relented and starting tomorrow the hearings will be webcast.

From Twitter:

CPUC has restarted the OII hearing, and first item up is that it WILL BE WEBCAST starting Tuesday. Go to http://cpuc.ca.gov

[bananas]

3. Good news, thanks.

Looks like the webcast archives are here: http://www.californiaadmin.com/cpuc.shtml

[DeSwiss]

2. K&R

[Trillo]

4. Why wouldn't they want it videotaped?

Surely their reasoning can be summed up in one sentence.