SLO Coast Power Plant will shut down...

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Owner of Morro Bay-Polluting Power Plant to Pull the Plug

excerpted from: http://www.morrobaypowerplant.org/2009/07/morro-bay-power-plant-to-be-shut-down-in-the-next-few-years-a-new-plant-cannot-be-built-ending-the-facilitys-54-year-life/

"7-31-2009--After years of sharply-reduced use and partial retirement, the 54-year-old Morro Bay Power Plant will be shut down for good in a few years, and no new replacement plant can be built, under just-revealed plans of the owner and a proposed new state policy prohibiting the plant’s continued use of water from the Morro Bay National Estuary, which has killed countless billions of small fish and other marine life over its lifetime...."