it's not about shell. >> it's not about shell. [multiple voices] >> i thought it was quite persuasive. it's not about the contract. the contract -- >> all the shell contract is -- during the transition period in 4-1/2 years is buy 20 to 30 megawatts of power on the marketplace. we're responsible for all the buildout work. >> commissioner josefowitz. commissioner king. thank you. >> let me ask this a different way. eric, i'm forgetting your name. >> [speaker not understood]. >> okay. is there a part of this -- i guess what some people are concerned about is from the things that are still lingering out there like pla agreements and, you know, for those of us that care about kind of, you know, where the energy is coming from initially or whatever. if you can bundle some of the stuff at minimum in california. for those of us that care about that kind of stuff, is this particular vote take us over the threshold that locks us into what they have already, like all of these thing that have not been answered yet, you know, does this vote l

the way the shell contract was originally envisioned by the staff was that shell would basically buy, sell, schedule all power for the program, up to 30 megawatts. there are two ways we could do that a little bit differently that we've been talking about internally. we could, for example, reduce the shell contract a little bit by some portion and buy the net short ourselves, schedule it, create a portfolio for that small amount of power, and have shell go ahead and schedule -- buy and sell the power within the contract amounts, the contract [speaker not understood]. or we could take all scheduling and management decisions in-house and treat shell as a -- as one supplier in a portfolio, just a power supply, not an energy manager. we're analyzing that internally and we are getting some help from a consultant who has expertise in this area as well. >> would the second option require sort of a new contract with shell? >> a new contract? >> yeah. would it be -- it would sort of [speaker not understood] in the existing contractual structure? >> well, it would require some modifications to t

one thing i have to acknowledge here today is the shell shock campaign that we see. i was with the marine program before we launched service when pg&e spent 44 million dollars marketing against our program and trying to defeat this happening in marine. we know that the shell shock campaign is being led by the ibew and you can't ignore the connections they have with pg&e, being with marine when we saw all of the marketing campaigns against our program there, it's clear that the same designer who did the campaign in marine against our program that was funded by pg&e is the same organization who's doing it ear in san francisco, do not be fooled by the misinformation that's being circulated -- >> the organization's name? >> jason freed knows the organization's name, and please don't lose site of the amazing changes that you guys can implement here in san francisco. thank you. >> shawn marshal representing lean energy usa. welcome. >> thank you. good afternoon, commissioners, thank you very much for having us here today. over the past several months as director kelly poin

shell seems to be taking some hard lumps in this situation. shell is a partner of ours. we have a 120 mega watt shell project. between shell and our partner at oak dale, we have had really good results with the shell product. prior to that time that shell took over in 2009, marketing our power, pg & e was the taker of that power and we have received many manyfold benefits from having shell market that power for us. that's ancillary services renewable energy. very very good products that we never received from pg & e. i wanted to tell you also that you keep talking about the pg & e workers. ibw 1245 pg & e workers, but many of the public utilities owned in california also have 1245 as their employees. i doubt that 1245 employees on the public side would be resisting a public agency such as yourself taking over a portion of pg & e's territory. >> thank you very much. i do believe that shell is also part of the western states petroleum association and if they are, we do buy power from them. we buy oil and fossil fuels from them in the county. next speaker, please. >> hi, my

fuel projection than pg&e, shell's non-fuel resource mix [inaudible] credits. today's action may also result in changed rates of air pollutant emissions from existing fossil fuel facilities, by switching to shell, the city changes the source of generation for sf customers from facilities that serve pg&e's load to facilities that serve shell's load, that different facility may be operating on the margin to facilitate the city's demand, this changes the rate of air pollutant emission from the facilities, if the program is a success and increases demand enough to cause corruption of non-renewable generation in its new phase, they will result in new impacts such as conversion of agricultural demands [inaudible] staff's proposal until an eir has been prepared, thank you. >> thank you very much, david mcord, sierra club. >> welcome. >> david mcord and i'm the chair of the sierra club bay chapter energy committee. we've got before you now a not to exceed rate that has been brought to be competitive with pg&e's rates, we -- the staff is working on more specific plans f

saying no to shell energy. three things very quickly, we certainly talked a lot about these issues, the first is our members work generate electricity, we want to continue to have them work generating electricity here in central northern california, secondly and probably most importantly, we've looked very hard at the issues around build-out opportunities, we've worked very hard statewide in partnership with our brothers and sisters in the building trades through two different coalitions, we will continue to do that. this is the goal. more renewable energy for the city and county of san francisco, more renewable energy for the state of california, but we need to be sure that that work is here and it's in front of us, and we will continue to work with our colleagues, brothers and sisters both in the building trades and here in the city and county of san francisco through a variety of community based organizations to get people back to work. finally, we've had -- i've been fortunate to participate in some discuss

>> that's my shell. beauty, huh? >> yeah. how does your head go all the way into your shell?ah! >> whoa! >> awk! that was amazing, adam. >> hey! maybe i can retract my head. [grunting] >> [laughter] >> whoa! unh! >> [laughter] >> nice try, don. >> well, adam, that is one amazing shell. it's sort of like you carry your home around with you. >> exactly. my shell is my home. >> i wonder what it'd be like to carry my home around with me. >> wow. so many creatures live in different kinds of homes. ♪ some of us creatures live in a nest that's the home that we love best others are critters that live in trees ♪ >> ♪ all day long they can feel the breeze ♪ >> ♪ some dinosaurs like to dig around ♪ >> ♪ they make a home from a hole in the ground ♪ >> ♪ but turtle homes are special, you know ♪ >> ♪ they carry their shells wherever they go ♪ >> yeah! >> ha ha ha! >> you're very talented pteranodons and one terrific t-rex. >> thanks! >> i have a hypothesis. all turtles retract their heads to keep them safe from predators. >> you're right. that is why we retract them. but i've heard that th

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

rwanda denies this, and said it was the congolese government shelling it. congolese government is very clear that they would bring their troops in the area to become stronger in the region. >> thank you. >>> an attack happened in at a mosque in the northern province of kunduz. it killed a man. >>> high temperatures and strong wind have fueled more than a dozen fires around the country. and firefighters in the u.s. are trying to stop a massive wildfire in california from spreading further into yosemite national park. the so-called rim fire has expanded 800 scare kilometers, and is the sixth largest wildfire in history. it could take another week to fully o contain it. a military drone has been brought in to help bring it under control. >>> still in america, fast food workers across the united states has gone on strike for more pay. they say they can't live on what they earn and want increased wages of $10 an hour. [ drumming ] >> reporter: making themselves heard loud and clear, hundreds of striking fast-food restaurant workers and their supporters rally out

it's no longer tied to the shell contract. so, the reality is now that the shell contract is going to have competitive rates if the sfpuc sets competitive rates next week, now that it's going to have competitive rates, the advocates are not concerned that there is going to be a large opt out of the program. after the shell contract is underway, as long as there's no large opt out, that's when we start building this next phase. when you get into phase ii and we do the buildout. and as commissioner wald rightly points out, that buildout is not going to happen unless we -- you as a commission, you as a department, we as advocates, make sure that the sfpuc and the board of supervisors does it. and under ab 117, the 2002 law passed for community insurance aggregation, i want to reassure you, and this can be done, if the sfpuc ends up not doing the program we want, the board of supervisors is empowered by that law, ab 117, to get advice from the local agency formation commission on how to build out that buildout program regardless w

ceiling of the building and then we went ahead and created a shell, an inner shell around the stage to try to control and tame the sounds of the band's actual amps that we can't control at our sound board. i have established a good working relationship with the neighbors and i think we're definitely moving in the right direction. there are some other sound reinforcement strategies i want to use, but we have definitely gone fairly -- taken in a good direction for now, so that's where we're at. i'm wondering if you've received any communication from neighbors regarding the hearing tonight, one neighbor said they were going to submit ao letter saying that they were for the most part satisfied with the club's efforts and thought we had stepped up and been a good neighbor which i will continue to be now that there is positive communication going on between everybody as opposed to in the past when there were multiple parties that were at fault for there being poor communication including us and to a certain degree, the staff, the commission, which i think is now taken care of and we're fi

taken time to get to that point, i understand this is a long process, if you look at the letter from shell that they submitted to you yesterday, talk about 100% gha free, 100% in california, let's look at 2012's mix of the three largest solar project that is pg&e built, some of their farther stuff down the list comes in, in california, they're not caring about building stuff here, this program does do that, this program allows us to do it, i know nr's a lot of politics at play, this shouldn't be a political body and i hope you fiekt it from ever becoming a political body. >> can we lay that to rest. there's politics on both sides of this issue, so to ascribe one side being more political than the other just isn't right. >> if you let me finish, that was my very point, i want you to be the policy makers, to make the good decisions, you heard multiple people who came up here who lined about staff not doing their jobs complimenting them today, i think that's a major accomplishment, if you have concerns about that, that's okay, we're still not finished building it, let's address those concerns

if i understand correctly, the only bidder for the contract when that contract was let go was with shell and it is a transition contract, a small p-e-r-c-e-n-t-a-g-e time you as an organization could be full speed ahead with local jobs, local people, even developing rec that could be purchased by other groups, one week ago today i walked into my classroom, my first course is environmental science, we won't focus on the science, i want to comment on some policy and politics and i would love to walk into that classroom and discuss with them the progress that the city is making in moving towards 100% renewable, clean energy, make no mistake, we will discuss the policy x the politics on the issue and i hope that's what i'm putting in front of them, i'm going to be teaching my 10th graders meteorologist, they will be seeing what's known oz a hock ke stick graph, the increase in carbon dioxide and we will talk about policy, and i hope this group moves forward to set that cap which is merely a cap, all it is doing is saying once those rates are set, it won't go above this, isn't setting the she