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Morro Bay City Council votes to ban battery storage facilities

Written on 26 Feb, 2025 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 26 comments

By KAREN VELIE The Morro Bay City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to extend an urgency ordinance banning battery storage facilities in the city. Vistra, a Texas-based energy company, has plans to construct and operate a 600 megawatt battery storage... (Continue reading)

New Morro Bay ordinance set to block battery storage facility

Written on 29 Jan, 2025 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 6 comments

By KAREN VELIE The Morro Bay City Council on Tuesday voted 5-0 for an urgency ordinance on a potential battery energy storage project. The urgency ordinance temporarily halts the project. The City Council also directed staff to return with another... (Continue reading)

Addis’ battery storage legislation would halt Morro Bay project

Written on 24 Jan, 2025 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 6 comments

  By KAREN VELIE In the aftermath of a raging fire at a battery storage facility in Moss Landing, Assemblywoman Dawn Addis introduced legislation that if passed will likely halt plans for a facility in Morro Bay. Along with Monterey... (Continue reading)

Man writes a bad check for a truck, arrested in Morro Bay

Written on 21 Jan, 2025 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 4 comments

By JOSH FRIEDMAN Officers arrested a 65-year-old man in Morro Bay on Sunday after he allegedly fled in a truck that he stole from a Ford dealership in San Luis Obispo. Shortly before 11 a.m., Morro Bay police received a... (Continue reading)

Assemblywoman Addis opposed to Morro Bay battery storage facility

Written on 21 Jan, 2025 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 20 comments

By KAREN VELIE Following the huge fire that ignited at the Vistra battery storage facility in Moss Landing, more than a hundred Central Coast residents called and sent emails to Assemblywoman Dawn Addis’ office voicing their concerns regarding plans for... (Continue reading)

Trump suspends offshore wind energy, Morro Bay projects in peril

Written on 21 Jan, 2025 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 27 comments

By KAREN VELIE President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order halting new offshore wind leases in federal waters while pausing current leases, such as the three charters off the coast of Morro Bay. The order instructs the Secretary... (Continue reading)

The Buttercup, Scouts, and America’s only newspaper

Written on 19 Jan, 2025 in Discovered, Featured | 6 comments

By DELL FRANKLIN Editor’s Note: The following series, “Life in Radically Gentrifying Cayucos by the Sea,” to be posted biweekly includes the notes, thoughts, and opinions of an original American voice: author Dell Franklin.  Franklin’s memoir, “The ballplayer’s Son” and... (Continue reading)

Locals protest wind energy projects off the coast of Morro Bay

Written on 19 Jan, 2025 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 18 comments

By KAREN VELIE A group of approximately 250 people on Saturday protested the three wind energy projects proposed off the coast of Morro Bay and the associated impacts. With signs seeking to support the whales, fisherman and our way of... (Continue reading)

A simple act of generosity in Morro Bay

Written on 5 Jan, 2025 in Discovered, Featured | 3 comments

By DELL FRANKLIN Editor’s Note: The following series, “Life in Radically Gentrifying Cayucos by the Sea,” to be posted biweekly includes the notes, thoughts, and opinions of an original American voice: author Dell Franklin.  Franklin’s memoir, “The ballplayer’s Son” is... (Continue reading)

Offshore wind energy is an economic and cultural wrecking ball

Written on 19 Dec, 2024 in Featured, Opinion | 44 comments

OPINION by SHERI HAFER This is in response to those downplaying the impacts from the offshore wind industrial complex planned off our Morro Bay coast. Various folks have stated they won’t use our ports, the view shed won’t be impacted,... (Continue reading)