“Battery facility must not be rebuilt”

 Carmel Pine Cone — Jan. 24, 2025

The battery facility at Moss Landing must never be allowed to be rebuilt. When a county supervisor says that we were duped into believing this event could never happen, that says it all. Duped by professionals.

The 700-million-watt Moss Landing facility stored the equivalent of 10,000 fully charged cars. If the wind had been blowing stronger from the west last week, thousands of people inland from Moss Landing would be dead or wish they were, literally before they could have been evacuated or even notified.

Hydrofluoric acid. Folks should Google it. It even enters the body through the skin.

Vistra is using all the buzzwords now, I imagine, to make sure we all presume a rebuild is a given. Buzzwords like “community,” “cooperation,” “partnering,” and “working together”— all examples of textbook public relations crisis management.

Of course, it will happen again, just like there will be more and more electric vehicles bursting into unextinguishable flames. Again. “The battery facility at Moss Landing must never be allowed to be rebuilt.”

Jon Levy, Carmel