Letters to the Editor 1-11-24
2023 shutdown Dear ER: Thank you, Easy Reader, for acknowledging the closure of the AES Power Plant was, indeed, the Story of the Year (“2023 Story of the Year: A brand new Redondo future,” ER January 4, 2024). We now face the future with hope. Barbara Epstein Redondo Beach We did it Dear ER: As a longtime community activist, it was with great pleasure and pride that I participated in the New Year’s Eve ceremony commemorating the shutdown of Redondo Beach’s AES gas power plant (“2023 Story of the Year: A brand new Redondo future,” ER January 4, 2024). The unproductive plant with limited output was engaged in outdated technology, polluting and hovering over the residents of Redondo Beach and Hermosa Beach. Many years ago, on a dark and cold dreary evening for Redondo Beach, a city council out of touch with its residents approved a massive development proposal on that land, telling us that this was the only way we could get rid of this monstrosity of a power plant. The events of last week proved them wrong. In the approval on that dark day, many of us who were city commissioners and community organizers pleaded in front of that City Council to come up with a better plan, but it fell…
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