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| Diablo Canyon site in the early 1960s |
Feb 27, 1963: Pacific Gas and Electric(PG&E) announces plans to build 5 nuclear reactors at Nipomo Dunes, California.
May 4,1963: The Sierra Club Board meets to discuss PG&E’s plan to build the Nipomo Dunes facility. The club president and Richard Leonard agree to meet with the PG&E president. A few months later the Sierra Club agrees to support the The Diablo Canyon site which becomes the new alternative to Nipomo Dunes and PG&E starts detailed site investigations at Diablo Canyon.
May, 1966: Sierra Board members tour the site and discover it houses the world’s largest Oak trees, a sacred burial ground for the Chumash Indians, the second to last coastal wilderness area in the state and the home to the largest Abalone site in California. The site was also disclosed as being proposed as a state park.
June, 1967: A major campaign to reverse the Sierra Club endorsement is started by several board members and David Brower, leading to the formation of a Sierra Club breakaway group, Friends of the Earth.
Thanks to Enformable for these excerpts from their chronology of Diablo Canyon. Enformable is a rich news digest related to the subject of nuclear power. Enformable.com
