Editor,
Los Angeles Times reporter Dan Weikel will speak at the Dec.5 Laguna Canyon Conservancy dinner about the recent final chapter on the struggle to save San Onofre State Park from becoming a toll road extension of the 241.
I hope many people will attend. Dan was there as the hearings and protests continued for a decade. The reminder to me is that Paul Carlton of the Sierra Club had a meeting with six people in his home and said, “We can’t let this happen to our state park, our beach at Trestles. We have to stop it.” Six people were at that meeting. By the end of the decade 10,000 people showed up in Del Mar to protest the toll road, and it was stopped. A handfull of dedicated believers had kept going, meeting the public at Trestles every weekend, getting the word out. The Sierra Club was joined by the NRDC and Surfrider.
For me the current struggle to get the spent nuclear fuel moved from the bluff at San Onofre is a parallel battle. If we are to get the fuel moved, we must join in protest against the NRC decision that it is safe to leave the fuel where it is for 300 years. The answer is consolidated interim storage at two private facilities being built in Texas and New Mexico. We need letters to our county supervisors and our state elected, asking for pressure to move the spent nuclear fuel.
Hope to see you at the LCC dinner.
Marni Magda, Laguna Beach
