San Diego Coastkeeper
Law & Policy Clinic Campaigns
Growing demands for energy production must be balanced by environmental safeguards. San Diego Coastkeeper monitors energy producers such as the Duke Energy South Bay Power Plant (SBPP) not only to assure compliance with current regulations, but to press regulatory agencies for upgrades in environmental safeguards. Coastkeeper is also working at the binational level with environmental organizations in Baja California to protect our shared coastline from potential negative impacts of proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities along the Baja California coastline.
Duke Power Plant
Coastkeeper is working to force Duke Energy to repower its antiquated SBPP to technology that will dramatically improve local water and air quality.
Once Through Cooling (OTC)
In April 2006, The State Lands Commission (SLC) and The Ocean Protection Council (OPC) each passed resolutions that will help pave the way for the phase-out of the use of massive quantities of coastal waters to cool power plants.