the only group that's available is shell. the only group that was available to marine that made it work is shell. some day, some time, this may be different. but that is not in any near future. i am not telling you it is the perfect program, but i am tell you it's the only one that we believe is possible in any kind of near-term future. and i don't see how it changes. >> supervisor campos: thank you. >> president chiu: supervisor avalos. >> supervisor avalos: thank you, president chiu. i just want to voice my strong support for the clean power sf program and i want to thank general manager ed harrington and his staff, barbara hale, and others, for their great work. also, for the staff, for lafco, nancy miller, and jason freid for all the great work together, the sponsor of this work today, supervisor campos, who has picked up the baton from ross mirkarimi, who picked it up from tom ammiano, for many, many years, this resolution, this appropriation, ordinance, have been in the making. and i'm very excited that we are here toda

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 -- industry leader around clean energy is not one of their problems. i have given all of you an nrdc report generated this year based on the 100 largest electrical gone ray tors in the country. out of that report pg&e, as part of -- they are the lowest co2 emissions per megawatt of any investor-owned utility in america. while they may have other problems, co2 emissions isn't one. the other part to highlight is clean power sf. they have a million dollars of marketing. currently if you look at their marketing they say will my rates increase. they say we will try to be comparative to pg&e. they don't say yes, by 77%. they say can i exit the program. yes, enthusiastically. they don't say you will have to pay to do that. that is not the best marketing i

i'm not here to sell you shell energy, i'm not. i'm here to get a program off the ground that is so much more than that. supervisor ash land, if you don't know him, he passed away, was a champion for this issue in marin. since that was my bell i will speed it up. marin clean energy is a program up and running and is very successful. after their first year they managed to pay off all the people that initially loaned them the money to start the program, because banks would not. now they have a program -- the purchase program for 972 kilowatts of rooftop power from the san rafael airport. this is where the jobs come in, is when you actually build clean, renewable energy within the city. so i urge you to support this legislation. move it forward and keep watching and help us shape it into what we know it can be. >> thank you. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is janine new, director of the san francisco apartment absorb eyesing. i'm here to express our opposition to cac. we believe and after sitting through an hour and

but anyway when i heard the word shell, i live in hawaii part of the time. they went for clean energy too. there was a volcano over there. they take clean energy, which is not clean from a volcano, has sulfuric acid and is dirty energy. i don't think shell has any clean energy at all. not mentioned any solar power. how are we going to get clean energy? >> thank you. >> shell does not have clean energy. >> thank you. next speaker, please. 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 o

there are shell trade routes all over the southwest. shell was a primary material for making jewelry, for using in burials, and you had to walk 600 miles to get it, down to the sea of cortez, the water that's in between baja and the main land of mexico. and i tracked routes all the way down to the border over years and then across the mexican border into sonora and then it a place called penacate and then a dune, 5,000 square miles of sand dunes, a beautiful landscape, but no water out there. but pottery, broken pottery all over in certain places and pieces of shell left behind where you could see that the people were crossing these dunes to the sea and picking up shell and then crossing back and then moving it up to phoenix and then from phoenix distributing it throughout the rest of the southwest. the first trip i took out there, we hit this mountain range right at the edge of the dunes. and we were carrying, i don't know, on that trip we were maybe carrying 80 or 90 pounds of water and moving it out to the sand and then we'd drop a c

, we have a contract term this allows us to swap in our power for shells. we would take money from those customers and instead of giving it to shell we use it to pay off the debt. if it's after the contract is expired we would have new money coming in from customers to pay off the debt. the real issue is can you build a falt that can be sufficiently cheap enough to have this rate structure supported. and i think that the answer is that's something we're still working on but we believe there are places, for example in our watersheds where we own vast quantities of land. that's a much better place to start than a lot of other places anybody else has to start, to be able to build things that can be done for a reasonable price. and we believe there are opportunities where it can work. the other part obviously is that we hope that all of this makes it so that people are using less power and more conservation so we're not having to build as much. we believe there are opportunities on our watersheds particularly but other places, but it's viable. i cannot promise

let me just say that your restaurant is having -- johnny's half shell is having a special on rose say wines. they have over ten special rose say wines being offered at a discount price, 25% off the already discounted price. so if like rose says, you'll want to go to johnny's, johnny's half shell. >> two glasses of rose say wine are included with your crab dinner. and our crab summit because rose wines really complement the dish well. for beer drinkers, there's a pitcher of beer. >> this is seasoning made by several different companies out of texas. you can buy it online. it is a secret spice mixture. it's like a barbecue dry rub. that's why we call it barbecue crab. >> let me smell it. smells good. that is hot. put it in that. >> you just let it fry. >> okay. >> it doesn't take long to cook crab. >> look what else you brought. you brought potato salad. >> and corn. that's maryland corn. >> and some glasses of wine. this is the finished product right there. >> that smells great. >> johnny's half shell, 400 north capitol street. ask for chef ann cashion. gosh, does that look good. thank

the long-term goal is not to be buying power from shell. the long-term goal is to do our own generation, to control the assets and control the costs. that's how you start to do a good job for your citizens to make sure you have control of your rates and your cost. to put this in perspective, it's a bit busy, in the last few years, and going on to the next several years with the sunset solar, we're going to spend over $90 million and that $90 million will have an impact worth about 6900, 7,000 homes, reduction in greenhouse gases in san francisco. this program, where we're asking you to appropriate $19.5 million, six of it spent on things like energy conservation, 13 million hopefully never spent but held in abeyance, that will immediately have an impact for greenhouse reduction for 90,000 homes. there's nothing else that anyone's thought of with that dramatic impact for san francisco with such a small dollar amount, an efficient way of spending your money. key program components. choice, it is a choice -- i realize it's an opt out program b

again it is shell energy and noble america. we are asking for 19.5 supplemental to start but once the revenue stream is established the whole idea is to get it going with city resources layered in to replace the shell resources over time. the $13 million of city funds that's part of the 19.5, because six million is for other programs. the 13 million, 7 million into an escrow as collateral. i will talk about when that might be used. 4.5 goes into a security account that takes care of the cash flow issues of the monthly billing and million half appropriated to mitigate potential costs. should we think we will get 90,000 customers, we won't have that at first, it will take us time to catch up. this is for that risk. we hope we will never have to spend. while we are appropriating, the goal is not to spend but the collateral and unlikely event of termination. what does that mean? what is the city liability? if the program is successful, obviously there is no liability. if the program is financially successful -- not successful, we j

i don't know how i keep a contract with shell not knowing how much power they're going to provide. it has a lot of issues that i don't know how it actually works, is the concern there. but maybe as the discussion happens it might be clearer, but i don't get it right now. >> president chiu: thank you. supervisor mar. >> supervisor mar: thank you. and just looking at the -- to my colleague, supervisor chu and farrell, it looks like the amendments would be harmful to the success of the program, from what i could see. i just wanted to first thank supervisor campos for bringing this forward after years of work by assemblyman tom ammiano and many others. i also wanted to thank the sierra club, many leaders from the sierra club over many years, kind of pushing and advocating and advising on this, besides our great puc staff, and our lafco staff, nancy miller, and jason greed a freid as well. i've been listening to the senior organizations, low income people groups and community based organizations input, as well as the electrical workers. we've been communicated to by hunter stern and ibi

yes, shell energy is the supplier of this contract. i will be the first to say at the very outset that i wish the energy industry was run by different players. i wish the companies that we -- as a city could do business with had a different track record. the reality is that the reason why jurisdictions like ma ren county are doing business with shell is because that is the only option we have. that is to say, though, that we have to understand that as we look at this contract, the goal of this contract ultimately is to lead to a build-out that no longer requires us to engage in those type contracts. i'm not here to defend the track record of any company but i do believe there is a way we can responsibly do business and protect taxpayers and it does so in a way consistent with values and principles we have as a city. this is an opt-out program. if i had a choice, i don't know that i would do it that way, but at the end of the day the program is set out the way it is because of state law. that is something the puc will be explaining very

on the facebook page of one of them onboard that flight christopher shell, up popped this, quote, i'm pretty disappointed in us airways currently. we just spent a half hour in the air to be notified that the plane has technical difficulties and had to fly back. moments later a stunned christopher shell was escorted off the plane in handcuffs the subject of an investigation for possible explosives but nothing hazardous was found and police concluded he was actually the victim. >> all indications are that this was a hoax and a pretty nasty trick was played on a passenger. >> reporter: investigators say an anonymous caller told airport police earlier this morning shell was carrying liquid explosives. a quick check of flight records found his reservation. the plane was ordered back and police and fbi agents boarded the aircraft, guns drawn. this man was sitting next to shell when a policeman carrying his weapon stopped at their row. >> right alongside my face with the rifle and about that time an abrupt, 90-degree turn and pointed it at the guy sitting next to me. >> reporter: late today

shell insists, though, it's taken every precaution. sierra club disagrees, saying approving this project is, quote, like building -- like a building inspector letting a developer start construction on a skyscraper on shaky ground before the safety plans are even complete. loek cals are also worried abou what a potential problem would do to animals in the region that residents depend on for survival. again, carol, the government has put shell through the wringer on this. it took six years to get approval. the project is going forward. everybody's just hoping for the best. carol? >> alison cottkosik, thank you. >>> congress is getting back to work today after a five-week recess. live picture of capitol hill. looks lonely yet. that's because nobody, as in lawmakers, arriving just yet because the gavel doesn' come down until 2:00 p.m. eastern. they'll start arriving then. question is, will law mamakers actually accomplish anything when the gavel does come down? gallup poll shows only 10% of americans approve of what congress is doing. with

here, the shell fire does not discriminate.ussia and china strong in their support of the syrian government, u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton flew to beijing trying to convince chinese leaders of the need for international action. >> we believe that the situation in syria is a threat to peace and stability in the entire region. and the longer the conflict goes on, the greater the risk that it spills over boarders and destabilizes neighboring countries. >> reporter: a point not lost on egyptian president mohammed morsi who demanded that president assad will step down. >> translator: i would like to tell the syrian regime, as long as there's still a chance to stop the bloodshed, do not take the right decision at the wrong time. the right decision at the wrong time is wrong. and there is no room for arrogance. >> reporter: but for now, syrians caught in the middle are faced with their own decision, stay and risk death. or go and risk losing everything. about 50 kilometers from the border here, a bombing strike that killed m

accusing shell of carrying liquid explosives on board a flight. shell's former girlfriend and smith, have been the focus of an fbi investigation and it's likely they are looking for third party, but authorities may have reason to be suspicious of shell who posted earlier that morning he felt bless a neighbor worked security and walked him through calling it a breeze and making the situation even worse, shell had outstanding warrants for dug possession and arrested again when he landed in dallas. . as for the man who phoned in the fake terror threat he faces a possible prison sentence of ten years and 250,000 dollars fine. the jury that sent out a guilty verdict for drew peterson talked about their decision. hearsay was critical in their desis. a jury convicted the former police officer of murdering his third wife, kathleen savio. outside the courthouse, the family showed emotion. finally, somebody heard kathleen's crys, 12 people did the right thing, thank god. >> i will never have my sister again. i have to see her at the cemetery. >> kathleen wa

when people think shell they think oil companies. where is shell going to get all of its green power from to deliver to people in san francisco? and as you mention, pg & e hates competition. do you think that once san francisco takes the plunge and competes, that other cities around the state will follow suit. why don't you just say this is what you ear going to have to do and we will compete. >> nobody will sign up. >> there will not be a lot of people as much as they might talk about it. shell energy is just one of many divisions. more than happy to sell you power. they will procure the pow sper deliver it to the city. the irony is it is a great irony. there is no guarantee you will ever get one electron. the price is going to be different. the reality is you won't necessarily be getting it. >> bottom line to all of this, the board of super visors have passed it. this in dekads of fight iing. >> where does that leave san francisco? where do the citizens that they have to have to make this work do? >> if they don't get 90,000 custom

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 a small rental property owner in district five. i remember eight years ago when then supervisor mirkarimi got elected. i recently purchased my building, telling him it would take $30,000 give or take to put solar panels on the roof. i really wanted. i pay the utilities for the whole building because the

because clean energy will be brought to us by shell. so i want to move, make sure we can support this moving forward. again, i want to thank all of our city departments for their work on this effort. nancy miller, jason freedom for their work through lafco as well, thank you. >> thank you, supervisor. supervisor kim. >> thank you. i think maybe we maybe need to make a clarification. we made two motions to amend. the first was on what supervisor campos asked, specifically on page eight. the line 15 and two including in that proposalal discount for low income customers. when the rate fairness board provides proposal onto the sfpuc and board of supervisors and second amendment on page 16. the further be it resolved the board of supervisors supports an appropriate discount for sfpc customers and resolve the sfpc take an outreach campaign in multiple languages with a particular folks us on multilingual communities and then the recommendations made by our budget and legislative analysts. i think this was a really tough issue and complex issue