Union-Trib:
Here along jagged bluffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean, just south of the only liquefied natural gas plant on the west coast of North America, a luxury-appointed, mission-style resort has risen from the coastal scrubland.
Hidden behind miles of fencing and razor wire, Casa Azul is a little-known project of Sempra Energy [parent of SDG&E], whose chief executive Donald Felsinger personally approved construction of the $17 million-plus private conference center, according to work orders obtained by The Watchdog.
And:
OC Weekly:
In July–two days after Assembly Speaker Karen Bass and Republican leader Sam Blakeslee put [Mike] Duvall on the Rules Committee that oversees member ethics–the second-term, conservative, Republican assemblyman sat in a public hearing and vividly described lewd details about his trysts with a female lobbyist whose clients [Sempra / SDG&E] had business before another committee on which Duvall sits.
Aaa- SDGE always looking out for our best interest. Rest easy Encinitas. SDGE has your back..... Haaa, ha, ha, haaaa....
ReplyDeleteCCC meeting coming up in Sept in Newport Beach:
ReplyDeleteAppeal No. A-6-ENC-19-0032 (DCM Properties, Inc., Encinitas)
Appeal by Dolores Welty and Fred Sandquist (Batiquitos Lagoon Foundation) from decision of City of Encinitas granting permit with conditions to DCM Properties, Inc. for demolition of former greenhouses and associated structures on site and subdivide 3 existing lots into 48 residential lots (with 4 lots dedicated for 4 affordable dwellings) with 2 existing residential units to remain on 13.94 acre lot, at 510 La Costa Ave., Encinitas, San Diego County. (DD-SD)
But then there is this:
Delete"Staff recommends that the Commission, after public hearing, determine that NO substantial issue exists with respect to the grounds on which the appeal has been filed."
According to CCC procedures, that means the appeal is dead.
DeleteEspecially after our "staff" gets done making phone calls to the CCC. Blakespear loves her some backroom dealing.
Delete8:32.
DeleteOh great. Another conspiracy theory.
EU: Come for the cheap shots, stay for the conspiracy.
Deleteanyone who's stood in front of the planning desk and wasn't a developer knows there are no conspiracies and no coincidences at city hall.
Deletethe only deniers are "staff" and the council. kranz, that you posting at 11:17? it has your bully mark.
4:10 PM
DeleteSame old trope missing the mark.
tell us about the mountain bike "gift" and try claiming trope. believe that city worker was removed from the front desk although incredibly is still employed at our expense.
DeleteSince I'm not an employee, please tell us about the mountain bike "gift", as you call it, or is this all whispers and innuendo. Also, explain how a front desk bribe, which is what you are inferring, helps a project which has to go through reviews or do they have to give everyone a mountain bike.
DeleteName part of it the "Duncan Hunter Write Off Center". His defense claims that his extramarital affairs with female lobbyists were part of his political duties; therefore it was legitimate to have spent campaign money to finance them. One has to resort to the absurd when it comes to the indefensible.
ReplyDeleteYou people do realize that this picture in above article is in Mexico...right? You do know that...right? So it isn't in the U.S.
ReplyDeleteAnd?
DeleteWhose $17 million paid for it?
DeleteSempra is a partner with Pemex along with other companies and countries. If you think the land and building belongs to SDG&E/Sempra I suggest you do your homework. You haven't a clue.
ReplyDelete11:28, You make an assertion implying that the Casa Azul project is ethical and conforms with good governance. Don't ask others to do homework -- offer facts to support your claim. On its face, the $17 million private conference center for a public utility, no matter what its share of the cost, appears scandalous and merits justification from all rate payers in SD. $17 million pays for years of conferences at La Costa and downtown hotels.
DeleteYou say we don't have a clue. Educate us. I'll bet you can't.
So EU is going back to 2009 and 2010 for material without saying what has happened since then? What happened with Michelon's lawsuit?
Delete11:56 Then you should STOP using energy supplied by SDG&E, since you are clearly above the rest of it's customers. That's always your go to move, "offer facts to support your claim". This is what you write when you have no idea of what you are writing about.
DeleteSomehow you think that gives you the upper hand.
Well, it doesn't. "Ethical and good governance", that's mumbo jumbo speak for "ohh, look, I'm superior as only I recognize ethics". Get on the board of directors of Sempra and make your changes, go on, you can do it.
6:20 a.m. good example of what sheeple say.
Delete6:20, I'm trying to give you the benefit of the doubt that your post is facetious and you're not actually that stupid. Meh, never mind, you're probably that stupid.
DeleteI, like most of us on this blog, use energy supplied by SDG&E. I don't reflexively hate energy companies, and I doubt others do either. But energy plants and the transmission of electricity are a regulated monopoly, and when you open that slack jaw and utter senseless comments like, "STOP using energy supplied by SDG&E..." It's stupid, plain and simple.
Because energy companies enjoy the privilege of operating as monopolies, it is incumbent upon them to operate as efficiently and ethically as possible. Lowering costs of producing and transmitting electricity means lowering rates for customers. Regulators, who manage rates, have a fiduciary duty to protect the public they serve, meaning they watchdog the energy companies to ensure they are compliant with best practices, and they are failures in this situation too. SDG&E purportedly investing in a beachfront conference center clearly isn't ethical or good governance. They should conference in their corporate offices like 90% of businesses. They're not entitled to ocean views and recreation when they operate at a cost to society.
So go on, clue us in. Tell us why SDG&E deserves immunity in this situation.
Since the rates are decided by the State of California regulators blame them.
ReplyDeleteSDG&E is owned by stock holders as in a publicly traded company.
The company buys the majority of its power from others. Why? Because the blank eyed earthers wanted to get rid of power plants in San Diego County. Well guess what...the electric is imported and it's going to cost. If the others charge more it passed on to customers. Taco Bell does the same thing when labor wages go up with minimum wage. And what SDG&E does with it's money is none of your business. Nor is it the publics business. Want to complain then buy a million dollars of their stock, maybe they will give five minutes in the share holders meeting.
Coming again from this slack jawed hillbilly, "you have the option to go solar".
Disjointed, contradictory, nonsensical. I could go on, but there's no point. It's a publicly traded company, but you claim the public has no say over what it does with its money. You're a riot.
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