hi, nick freeman, i'm a resident and native of san francisco and strong believer in the idea we could have clean energy. i don't think this plan is that plan. i'm not really qualified to kind of dissect all the different problems it has. i think one of the problems that i did feel was a stumbling point that i feel could be addressed would be to kind of understand how we can get a better plan than shell. i don't think we are in a good place with this project. i understand they are the only ones who present it and qualified but i think it is really important to do better. i don't think it is going to be successful or popular or widely adopted or a good model for follow-on procedures if we don't take the time to get it right now. there are several ways that could be done. one of the first is to enlist and adopt some of the community-based initiatives in place. work with some of the power producing groups, some of the private enterprises. i just think handing everything over to shell is a prescription for disaster, thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi, i'm katherine roberts. i am

hi, nick freeman, i'm a resident and native of san francisco and strong believer in the idea we could have clean energy. i don't think this plan

barbara raymond, katherine roberts, al winerup, nick freeman, christian ettiger. >> i'm rod block, executive director for golden gate restaurant association. i'm here in two capacities, the business community and as someone followed cca in 2004 when first voted for and i worked for supervisor pier. at that time cca was promised to create thousands of local jobs, green jobs, move the city to 100% renewable at better price than pg&e. eight years later we have a contract before you. a contract that is going to cost close to $20 million, not counting six million already spent, which the controller says will cost jobs, not increase, not create city and city-owned power generation and will cost residents 77% more for electricity generation. let's look at the players in this process. shell energy. so shell energy, pg&e, clean power sf and rate payers. shell energy we found out two days ago started drilling in alaska, also the largest investors in the canadian and carbon intense way. pg&e a local company has challenges. they have some problems. being an industry leader is not one of those -- industr

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