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"content": "\u003cp>Collard greens, black-eyed peas and red and green tomatoes fill the table of a small farmstand in central Fresno, enticing urban dwellers out for their Saturday morning coffee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would like to purchase this lovely, beautiful bunch of greens,” one customer says. “How much are they?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re $3 a pound. Fifteen-year-old Dashon Standifer helps his mom, Porsha, bag the greens. He helped grow these crops, as did his twin brother, Dayvon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/231924591\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The twins also know how to cook with the produce. They’ve got a good recipe for relish and another for homemade pie from tomato stew. It tastes like apple pie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We call it mock pie,” Dayvon says. “We also make our own homemade crust!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10748564\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10748564\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Greens-800x1032.jpg\" alt=\"With Will Scott Jr.’s help, kids from Rev. Floyd Harris’ Freedom School grew tomatoes, collard greens and black-eyed peas.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1032\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Greens-800x1032.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Greens-400x516.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Greens-1440x1857.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Greens.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Greens-1180x1522.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Greens-960x1238.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">With Will Scott Jr.’s help, kids from Rev. Floyd Harris’ Freedom School grew tomatoes, collard greens and black-eyed peas. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They entered their mock pie and canned relish into cooking and baking contests at the local fair, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnofair.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Big Fresno Fair\u003c/a>. Both entrees won first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brothers got their gardening and cooking skills through a program called the Freedom School at their \u003ca href=\"http://xyfloyd.wix.com/new-light\">New Light for New Life church\u003c/a> in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of their mentors was a 75-year-old farmer, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scottfamilyfarms.net/\" target=\"_blank\">Will Scott Jr.\u003c/a> He’s been teaching farming skills to young African-Americans for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s nice to know how to work the tractor, and grow food,” says Dayvon. “And Will Scott is a good role model.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he’s been one for years. Scott helped establish a demonstration farm where kids can get their hands dirty. And he’s introduced hundreds of kids to agriculture in one way or another, either through talks he gives at churches and schools or out on the land, where he teaches farming step by step, row by row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only how to condition the land, but also how to plant and then do maintenance on it,” Scott says. “And then the harvest part of it and [we] also look at the marketing aspect of it, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says there’s still a negative association with farming that comes from a history of slavery and oppression. Scott’s own grandfather and father were sharecroppers in Oklahoma. He was 5 when they left the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10748618\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10748618\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TwinBrothers-800x915.jpg\" alt=\"Twin brothers Dayvon and Dashon Standifer sell produce they grew themselves.\" width=\"800\" height=\"915\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TwinBrothers-800x915.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TwinBrothers-400x458.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TwinBrothers-1440x1647.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TwinBrothers.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TwinBrothers-1180x1350.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/TwinBrothers-960x1098.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Twin brothers Dayvon and Dashon Standifer sell produce they grew themselves. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That’s when we got off the tab,” Scott says. “You had a tab, you know. You were almost chained to the land. So when you paid your tab off, you’re free to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he says agriculture can now mean a job, especially in California’s fertile Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, there’s farming the land but there are plenty of other related opportunities, he says, like installing drip systems. Or well drilling, he says, looking over his shoulder at his own well. It’s a topic he’s been confronted with lately. Because of the drought, Scott’s well will likely go dry by December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I need to take it deeper so I have access to more water, give me some kind of guarantee and less worry,” he says. But to replace it with a much deeper well could cost around $40,000 and, like most small farmers, Scott doesn’t have that kind of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a predicament many small farmers face, says retired University of California farm adviser Richard Molinar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10748897\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10748897\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall-800x1049.jpg\" alt=\"Will Scott Jr. at work on his farm.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1049\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall-800x1049.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall-400x524.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall-1440x1888.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall-1180x1547.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall-960x1259.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will Scott Jr. at work on his farm. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They don’t have the same resources. They don’t have the same bankroll that the large corporate farms do,” he says. “So they’re, in many cases, living on the edge. Their farm is being held together with shoelaces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Molinar says Scott has been a voice for African-American farmers. In fact, Scott helped found the Fresno-based \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/AAFCalifornia/\">African-American Farmers of California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He has devoted at least the last 20 years to not only farming but also to advocate for the black youth and African-American farmers,” Molinar says. “He’s been thinking of other people and not himself, and he is now in some constraints.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Scott went into farming full time, he was an engineer for Pacific Bell. Now he spends his days growing mustard greens, turnips, collards, broccoli, lettuce, okra and black-eyed peas. He says small farming is a way of life that is being threatened, especially now with the drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The small farmers’ way of life is something we must sustain,” Scott says. “This country was built on small farmers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rev. Floyd Harris, a minister at New Light for New Life Church in Fresno, understands Scott’s plight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris is also a farmer and the founder of the Freedom School, the program the Standifer twins are enrolled in. The Freedom School teaches boys important life skills to help them become well-rounded, healthy men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10748902\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10748902\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak-800x939.jpg\" alt=\"The Rev. Floyd Harris takes a break from plastering an office in his church. He founded the Freedom School and works with Will Scott Jr. to get kids interested in farming.\" width=\"800\" height=\"939\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak-800x939.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak-400x470.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak-1440x1691.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak-1180x1385.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak-960x1127.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rev. Floyd Harris takes a break from plastering an office in his church. He founded the Freedom School and works with Will Scott Jr. to get kids interested in farming. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Harris says Scott also advised him on a community garden behind the church. “You know he reaches out, not just here in Fresno but he’s down in the Bay Area, he’s down in L.A.,” Harris says. “And so every seed that he plants, I will say, is a seed of life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Scott hauls his produce every week to a neighborhood in Oakland, where he says there are plenty of liquor stores but not a lot of fresh food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris says that when Scott teaches kids what happens when seeds and water mix, it’s inspiring. “And three months later you can go to that same plant that you touched and you dug a hole for, and see that that one plant has 50 tomatoes, or 30 tomatoes green and red,” Harris says. “That’s hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there is some hope for Scott. Another farmer, Paul Buxman, has started a campaign to raise money for him. Buxman is known for his tasty \u003ca href=\"http://www.tularecountytreasures.org/sweet-home-ranch-v.html\">Sweet Home Ranch \u003c/a>jams, but he’s also an accomplished impressionistic \u003ca href=\"http://www.shinnphoto.com/Paul-Buxman/\">painter\u003c/a> whose rural scenes of the Central Valley have sold all over the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says anyone willing to contribute $50 will be given a free lithograph. There are four to choose from, he says. So far, Buxman has raised about $5,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s help get this farmer some water,” Buxman says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s calling his campaign Drill for Will.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We call it mock pie,” Dayvon says. “We also make our own homemade crust!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10748564\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10748564\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Greens-800x1032.jpg\" alt=\"With Will Scott Jr.’s help, kids from Rev. Floyd Harris’ Freedom School grew tomatoes, collard greens and black-eyed peas.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1032\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Greens-800x1032.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Greens-400x516.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Greens-1440x1857.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Greens.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Greens-1180x1522.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Greens-960x1238.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">With Will Scott Jr.’s help, kids from Rev. Floyd Harris’ Freedom School grew tomatoes, collard greens and black-eyed peas. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They entered their mock pie and canned relish into cooking and baking contests at the local fair, \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnofair.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Big Fresno Fair\u003c/a>. Both entrees won first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The brothers got their gardening and cooking skills through a program called the Freedom School at their \u003ca href=\"http://xyfloyd.wix.com/new-light\">New Light for New Life church\u003c/a> in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of their mentors was a 75-year-old farmer, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scottfamilyfarms.net/\" target=\"_blank\">Will Scott Jr.\u003c/a> He’s been teaching farming skills to young African-Americans for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s nice to know how to work the tractor, and grow food,” says Dayvon. “And Will Scott is a good role model.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he’s been one for years. Scott helped establish a demonstration farm where kids can get their hands dirty. And he’s introduced hundreds of kids to agriculture in one way or another, either through talks he gives at churches and schools or out on the land, where he teaches farming step by step, row by row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only how to condition the land, but also how to plant and then do maintenance on it,” Scott says. “And then the harvest part of it and [we] also look at the marketing aspect of it, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says there’s still a negative association with farming that comes from a history of slavery and oppression. Scott’s own grandfather and father were sharecroppers in Oklahoma. 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You were almost chained to the land. So when you paid your tab off, you’re free to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he says agriculture can now mean a job, especially in California’s fertile Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, there’s farming the land but there are plenty of other related opportunities, he says, like installing drip systems. Or well drilling, he says, looking over his shoulder at his own well. It’s a topic he’s been confronted with lately. Because of the drought, Scott’s well will likely go dry by December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I need to take it deeper so I have access to more water, give me some kind of guarantee and less worry,” he says. But to replace it with a much deeper well could cost around $40,000 and, like most small farmers, Scott doesn’t have that kind of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a predicament many small farmers face, says retired University of California farm adviser Richard Molinar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10748897\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10748897\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall-800x1049.jpg\" alt=\"Will Scott Jr. at work on his farm.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1049\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall-800x1049.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall-400x524.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall-1440x1888.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall-1180x1547.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/WillScottTall-960x1259.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will Scott Jr. at work on his farm. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They don’t have the same resources. They don’t have the same bankroll that the large corporate farms do,” he says. “So they’re, in many cases, living on the edge. Their farm is being held together with shoelaces.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Molinar says Scott has been a voice for African-American farmers. In fact, Scott helped found the Fresno-based \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/AAFCalifornia/\">African-American Farmers of California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He has devoted at least the last 20 years to not only farming but also to advocate for the black youth and African-American farmers,” Molinar says. “He’s been thinking of other people and not himself, and he is now in some constraints.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Scott went into farming full time, he was an engineer for Pacific Bell. Now he spends his days growing mustard greens, turnips, collards, broccoli, lettuce, okra and black-eyed peas. He says small farming is a way of life that is being threatened, especially now with the drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The small farmers’ way of life is something we must sustain,” Scott says. “This country was built on small farmers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rev. Floyd Harris, a minister at New Light for New Life Church in Fresno, understands Scott’s plight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris is also a farmer and the founder of the Freedom School, the program the Standifer twins are enrolled in. The Freedom School teaches boys important life skills to help them become well-rounded, healthy men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10748902\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10748902\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak-800x939.jpg\" alt=\"The Rev. Floyd Harris takes a break from plastering an office in his church. He founded the Freedom School and works with Will Scott Jr. to get kids interested in farming.\" width=\"800\" height=\"939\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak-800x939.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak-400x470.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak-1440x1691.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak-1180x1385.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/RevTakesABreak-960x1127.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rev. Floyd Harris takes a break from plastering an office in his church. He founded the Freedom School and works with Will Scott Jr. to get kids interested in farming. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Harris says Scott also advised him on a community garden behind the church. “You know he reaches out, not just here in Fresno but he’s down in the Bay Area, he’s down in L.A.,” Harris says. “And so every seed that he plants, I will say, is a seed of life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Scott hauls his produce every week to a neighborhood in Oakland, where he says there are plenty of liquor stores but not a lot of fresh food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris says that when Scott teaches kids what happens when seeds and water mix, it’s inspiring. “And three months later you can go to that same plant that you touched and you dug a hole for, and see that that one plant has 50 tomatoes, or 30 tomatoes green and red,” Harris says. “That’s hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there is some hope for Scott. Another farmer, Paul Buxman, has started a campaign to raise money for him. Buxman is known for his tasty \u003ca href=\"http://www.tularecountytreasures.org/sweet-home-ranch-v.html\">Sweet Home Ranch \u003c/a>jams, but he’s also an accomplished impressionistic \u003ca href=\"http://www.shinnphoto.com/Paul-Buxman/\">painter\u003c/a> whose rural scenes of the Central Valley have sold all over the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says anyone willing to contribute $50 will be given a free lithograph. There are four to choose from, he says. So far, Buxman has raised about $5,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s help get this farmer some water,” Buxman says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Nov. 2, 2015: \u003c/strong>Voters may be puzzled to learn that there is no ballot argument in favor of Proposition G. That’s due to a set of unusual circumstances surrounding competing measures G and H.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, IBEW Local 1245 -- the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. electrical workers' union behind Proposition G -- reached a deal with San Francisco Board of Supervisors President London Breed to support H and abandon support for G. The agreement was finalized after the union had already gathered enough voter signatures to place G on the ballot (see original post below).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Local 1245 fully supports the Breed measure,” IBEW 1245 business representative Hunter Stern said in July, “and will actively campaign for its passage and against the ‘Renewable Energy Truth in Advertising Act’ we previously submitted for the ballot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both measures relate to the same subject: Precisely what sources of power may be termed renewable or “green” for San Francisco’s planned CleanPowerSF program, and what disclosures the program will make to consumers about where it gets its electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scheduled to launch in early 2016, CleanPowerSF aims to offer city residents a greener energy mix than currently available through Pacific Gas & Electric Co., which relies heavily on natural gas and nuclear energy sources. Similar programs, created under a structure known as Community Choice Aggregation, are already in operation in Marin and Sonoma counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Positioned partly as a local jobs issue, Prop. G sought to narrow the kinds of electricity that CleanPowerSF could label as green by excluding potentially “dirty” power procured through the use of unbundled renewable energy credits. The measure would also have barred power produced by rooftop solar arrays, an increasingly important source, from being classified as “renewable greenhouse-gas free electricity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of CleanPowerSF, including both moderates and progressives on the Board of Supervisors, attacked Prop. G as a tactic designed to undermine the new alternative power program. That led to them to craft Prop. H, which would allow the city to use the state’s definition of renewable energy sources any time it officially uses terms like “clean energy” or “green energy.” By using the state’s definition, CleanPowerSF may take advantage of unbundled renewable energy credits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the twist: Confronted with Proposition H, the backers of Proposition G reconsidered. They agreed to abandon Prop. G in exchange for a compromise: The Prop. H authors, led by Supervisor London Breed, would include provisions: a) requiring the city to try to limit the use of the unbundled renewable energy credits for CleanPowerSF; and b) urging the city to inform consumers of the composition of CleanPowerSF’s energy portfolio in upcoming mailings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With that deal in place, IBEW 1245 joined Breed, Mayor Ed Lee and most of the Board of Supervisors in support of Prop. H and against Prop. G.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the strong support for Prop. H, “We still think that voters are going to be confused by the two measures,” said Jess Dervin-Ackerman, conservation manager at the Sierra Club San Francisco Bay Chapter. “Prop. G is another attempt to kill S,F,’s Clean Energy Program,” she added. “For us, Prop. H is really a tool to defeat Prop. G. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. H will go into effect if it gets more than 50 percent of the vote, and garners more votes than Prop. G.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post, July 7, 2015: \u003c/strong>The proponent of a proposed San Francisco ballot measure targeting the city’s municipal green-power program turned in some 17,000 signatures at the San Francisco Department of Elections Monday, setting the stage for a November ballot battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Renewable Energy Truth in Advertising Act seeks to limit how the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission can describe the energy mix offered in its nascent municipal green-energy program. If passed, the SFPUC would be prohibited from labeling electricity sold through its CleanPowerSF program as “clean,” “green” or “greenhouse-gas free” in marketing materials, unless that electricity is “derived exclusively from renewable resources” generated within California, or from the city-owned Hetch Hetchy hydropower facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to make (sure) the program is honest and clear to consumers,” said proponent Hunter Stern, business representative of IBEW 1245, a union that represents Pacific Gas & Electric Co. electrical workers. \"The main purpose is simply so that San Franciscans who could be enrolled in a new energy program as soon as the end of this year will be sure to have information about the source, and greenness, of the electricity\" they're getting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason Fried, executive officer of the city's Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo), which has worked with the SFPUC to advance CleanPowerSF, said the IBEW-sponsored measure would actually make things more confusing for energy customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you wanted to compare apples to apples, you’re no longer able to do that,” Fried said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in a press release issued Monday afternoon, environmental activists who have pushed for implementation of the green energy program said this measure would set a double standard in advertising to give PG&E a marketing advantage once it's competing with the SFPUC for energy customers. Environmentalists described the IBEW-backed measure as \"a thinly veiled attempt to kill\" CleanPowerSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Voters have seen through previous attempts to preserve California's dirty energy monopoly, just as they will see through this disingenuous measure,\" said Michelle Myers, director of the Sierra Club San Francisco Bay Chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To date, San Francisco customers haven’t powered a single lightbulb with CleanPowerSF electricity because the program has yet to launch. Designed under a Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) model -- which entrusts the SFPUC with buying and selling power, while leaving transmission, billing and grid-operation duties to PG&E -- the municipal system aims to offer a greener power mix than PG&E, at or below the same rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the program structure, customers will be automatically transferred from PG&E to CleanPowerSF unless they opt out. And in the near-decade that CleanPowerSF has been moving forward, both PG&E and IBEW have engaged in efforts to halt its progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern insisted in an interview with KQED News that contrary to popular belief, his union isn’t seeking to kill CleanPowerSF. “If we wanted to kill it, we would have proposed an opt-in requirement,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that IBEW 1245 had drafted, but ultimately decided not to circulate, such a measure. That change of heart came about because “we support the mayor in his ... commitment to this program,” Stern said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Green vision\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee initially opposed CleanPowerSF. In August 2013, Lee’s appointees on the SFPUC effectively blocked it from moving forward, a move that sent program supporters back to the drawing board for an overhaul. Earlier this year, however, at a January press conference with San Francisco Board of Supervisors President London Breed, Lee announced his support for the revised version of CleanPowerSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly before Lee’s announcement, consulting firm EnerNex released a hefty green-energy road map commissioned by LAFCo outlining how CleanPowerSF could create more than 8,100 construction jobs with $2.4 billion worth of solar, wind and geothermal projects. Environmentalists envision this renewable build-out as a long-term strategy for transitioning San Francisco away from fossil fuels and sheltering customers from future energy-market volatility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But program backers say that in order to steer the SFPUC into a financial position to break ground on those construction projects, flexibility in energy purchases is needed early on. Under a previous plan, the SFPUC planned to meet its green-energy targets with a higher percentage of renewable-energy certificates, better known as RECs, which can be purchased to offset energy sent to customers that doesn’t comply with the state’s renewable-portfolio standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The RECs would have been integrated as a way of “greening” a base-load of hydropower, which is not considered to be as green as wind or solar but nevertheless counts as greenhouse-gas free, Fried said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern said the use of RECs, which are partially integrated by a similar program in Marin, is a central concern for IBEW.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you use RECs you’re not investing in renewable energy, you’re buying these certificates,” Stern said, adding that his union views RECs as a “gimmick” and a \"greenwashing\" practice that does nothing to spur in-state renewable energy development and lends zero support to union jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Fried said the legal restrictions introduced by the language of IBEW’s measure would be too restrictive, and might lead to a reality where “we cannot go out there and call rooftop solar clean, green and renewable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hypothetically speaking, if the SFPUC were to offer the exact same energy mix as PG&E, Fried said, the proposed measure would create a situation where PG&E would legally be able to label 54 percent of its power as “green” and “greenhouse-gas free,” while the SFPUC would be limited to claiming only 22 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fried said the city has ditched plans that were more heavily reliant on RECs and now seeks to offer a base product of 33 to 50 percent state-certified renewable power, with much of the remainder derived from the city’s Hetch Hetchy hydropower system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A greener option, offered at a premium, would provide customers with 100 percent renewable power. But in emergency situations, such as if a wildfire limited the city's ability to draw power from Hetch Hetchy, the city would still need that flexibility in power purchasing and might have to turn to RECs, according to Fried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pge.com/en/mybusiness/account/bill/nov2014.page\">PG&E’s power mix in 2013\u003c/a> was made up of 28 percent natural gas, 22 percent nuclear, 10 percent large hydro, 22 percent renewable and 18 percent “unspecified.” Environmentalists who support CleanPowerSF also pointed out that PG&E uses the same RECs that the measure's backers oppose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show Stern has joined forces with PG&E before to take aim at CCA programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“PG&E did not provide financial support to Hunter Stern for such efforts, but PG&E staff members and [REDACTED] attended public meetings with Hunter Stern with the goal of marketing or lobbying against CCA proposals,” the utility disclosed in a formal document submitted in April 2014 to the California Public Utilities Commission, in response to a series of questions raised about its activities targeting a similar municipal power initiative in Marin County. The document said these efforts halted in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E also confirmed it had provided “financial and staff support” to the San Francisco Common Sense Coalition, a group that formed in 2010 to oppose an earlier iteration of CleanPowerSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Countermeasure planned\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the IBEW ballot measure, four members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors -- London Breed, John Avalos, Scott Wiener and Julie Christensen -- have drafted their own countermeasure to be placed on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would require \"green,\" \"clean\" and \"greenhouse-gas free\" to be defined in accordance with definitions of eligible renewable resources under state law. And it would cancel out the measure backed by IBEW if it wins more votes. The measure would also prevent PG&E from labeling its nuclear power as \"green\" or \"greenhouse-gas free.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern emphasized that the supervisors' measure “reinforces that RECs are okay.” He added that it \"potentially could legally allow CleanPowerSF to provide dirtier energy than the energy it's replacing\" with RECs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board president Breed introduced the countermeasure, titled the \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov2.org/ftp/uploadedfiles/elections/candidates/Nov2015/CleanEnergy_Text.pdf,\">Clean Energy Right to Know Act,\u003c/a> at the June 16 Board of Supervisors meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After over a dozen years of PG&E standing in the way of cleaner energy, we are finally, finally launching a clean-power program in San Francisco,” she said. “Consumers will finally have a choice about who provides their electricity. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Positioned partly as a local jobs issue, Prop. G sought to narrow the kinds of electricity that CleanPowerSF could label as green by excluding potentially “dirty” power procured through the use of unbundled renewable energy credits. The measure would also have barred power produced by rooftop solar arrays, an increasingly important source, from being classified as “renewable greenhouse-gas free electricity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of CleanPowerSF, including both moderates and progressives on the Board of Supervisors, attacked Prop. G as a tactic designed to undermine the new alternative power program. That led to them to craft Prop. H, which would allow the city to use the state’s definition of renewable energy sources any time it officially uses terms like “clean energy” or “green energy.” By using the state’s definition, CleanPowerSF may take advantage of unbundled renewable energy credits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the twist: Confronted with Proposition H, the backers of Proposition G reconsidered. They agreed to abandon Prop. G in exchange for a compromise: The Prop. H authors, led by Supervisor London Breed, would include provisions: a) requiring the city to try to limit the use of the unbundled renewable energy credits for CleanPowerSF; and b) urging the city to inform consumers of the composition of CleanPowerSF’s energy portfolio in upcoming mailings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With that deal in place, IBEW 1245 joined Breed, Mayor Ed Lee and most of the Board of Supervisors in support of Prop. H and against Prop. G.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the strong support for Prop. H, “We still think that voters are going to be confused by the two measures,” said Jess Dervin-Ackerman, conservation manager at the Sierra Club San Francisco Bay Chapter. “Prop. G is another attempt to kill S,F,’s Clean Energy Program,” she added. “For us, Prop. H is really a tool to defeat Prop. G. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. H will go into effect if it gets more than 50 percent of the vote, and garners more votes than Prop. G.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post, July 7, 2015: \u003c/strong>The proponent of a proposed San Francisco ballot measure targeting the city’s municipal green-power program turned in some 17,000 signatures at the San Francisco Department of Elections Monday, setting the stage for a November ballot battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Renewable Energy Truth in Advertising Act seeks to limit how the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission can describe the energy mix offered in its nascent municipal green-energy program. If passed, the SFPUC would be prohibited from labeling electricity sold through its CleanPowerSF program as “clean,” “green” or “greenhouse-gas free” in marketing materials, unless that electricity is “derived exclusively from renewable resources” generated within California, or from the city-owned Hetch Hetchy hydropower facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to make (sure) the program is honest and clear to consumers,” said proponent Hunter Stern, business representative of IBEW 1245, a union that represents Pacific Gas & Electric Co. electrical workers. \"The main purpose is simply so that San Franciscans who could be enrolled in a new energy program as soon as the end of this year will be sure to have information about the source, and greenness, of the electricity\" they're getting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason Fried, executive officer of the city's Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo), which has worked with the SFPUC to advance CleanPowerSF, said the IBEW-sponsored measure would actually make things more confusing for energy customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you wanted to compare apples to apples, you’re no longer able to do that,” Fried said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in a press release issued Monday afternoon, environmental activists who have pushed for implementation of the green energy program said this measure would set a double standard in advertising to give PG&E a marketing advantage once it's competing with the SFPUC for energy customers. Environmentalists described the IBEW-backed measure as \"a thinly veiled attempt to kill\" CleanPowerSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Voters have seen through previous attempts to preserve California's dirty energy monopoly, just as they will see through this disingenuous measure,\" said Michelle Myers, director of the Sierra Club San Francisco Bay Chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To date, San Francisco customers haven’t powered a single lightbulb with CleanPowerSF electricity because the program has yet to launch. Designed under a Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) model -- which entrusts the SFPUC with buying and selling power, while leaving transmission, billing and grid-operation duties to PG&E -- the municipal system aims to offer a greener power mix than PG&E, at or below the same rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the program structure, customers will be automatically transferred from PG&E to CleanPowerSF unless they opt out. And in the near-decade that CleanPowerSF has been moving forward, both PG&E and IBEW have engaged in efforts to halt its progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern insisted in an interview with KQED News that contrary to popular belief, his union isn’t seeking to kill CleanPowerSF. “If we wanted to kill it, we would have proposed an opt-in requirement,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that IBEW 1245 had drafted, but ultimately decided not to circulate, such a measure. That change of heart came about because “we support the mayor in his ... commitment to this program,” Stern said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Green vision\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee initially opposed CleanPowerSF. In August 2013, Lee’s appointees on the SFPUC effectively blocked it from moving forward, a move that sent program supporters back to the drawing board for an overhaul. Earlier this year, however, at a January press conference with San Francisco Board of Supervisors President London Breed, Lee announced his support for the revised version of CleanPowerSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly before Lee’s announcement, consulting firm EnerNex released a hefty green-energy road map commissioned by LAFCo outlining how CleanPowerSF could create more than 8,100 construction jobs with $2.4 billion worth of solar, wind and geothermal projects. Environmentalists envision this renewable build-out as a long-term strategy for transitioning San Francisco away from fossil fuels and sheltering customers from future energy-market volatility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But program backers say that in order to steer the SFPUC into a financial position to break ground on those construction projects, flexibility in energy purchases is needed early on. Under a previous plan, the SFPUC planned to meet its green-energy targets with a higher percentage of renewable-energy certificates, better known as RECs, which can be purchased to offset energy sent to customers that doesn’t comply with the state’s renewable-portfolio standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The RECs would have been integrated as a way of “greening” a base-load of hydropower, which is not considered to be as green as wind or solar but nevertheless counts as greenhouse-gas free, Fried said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern said the use of RECs, which are partially integrated by a similar program in Marin, is a central concern for IBEW.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you use RECs you’re not investing in renewable energy, you’re buying these certificates,” Stern said, adding that his union views RECs as a “gimmick” and a \"greenwashing\" practice that does nothing to spur in-state renewable energy development and lends zero support to union jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Fried said the legal restrictions introduced by the language of IBEW’s measure would be too restrictive, and might lead to a reality where “we cannot go out there and call rooftop solar clean, green and renewable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hypothetically speaking, if the SFPUC were to offer the exact same energy mix as PG&E, Fried said, the proposed measure would create a situation where PG&E would legally be able to label 54 percent of its power as “green” and “greenhouse-gas free,” while the SFPUC would be limited to claiming only 22 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fried said the city has ditched plans that were more heavily reliant on RECs and now seeks to offer a base product of 33 to 50 percent state-certified renewable power, with much of the remainder derived from the city’s Hetch Hetchy hydropower system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A greener option, offered at a premium, would provide customers with 100 percent renewable power. But in emergency situations, such as if a wildfire limited the city's ability to draw power from Hetch Hetchy, the city would still need that flexibility in power purchasing and might have to turn to RECs, according to Fried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pge.com/en/mybusiness/account/bill/nov2014.page\">PG&E’s power mix in 2013\u003c/a> was made up of 28 percent natural gas, 22 percent nuclear, 10 percent large hydro, 22 percent renewable and 18 percent “unspecified.” Environmentalists who support CleanPowerSF also pointed out that PG&E uses the same RECs that the measure's backers oppose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show Stern has joined forces with PG&E before to take aim at CCA programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“PG&E did not provide financial support to Hunter Stern for such efforts, but PG&E staff members and [REDACTED] attended public meetings with Hunter Stern with the goal of marketing or lobbying against CCA proposals,” the utility disclosed in a formal document submitted in April 2014 to the California Public Utilities Commission, in response to a series of questions raised about its activities targeting a similar municipal power initiative in Marin County. The document said these efforts halted in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E also confirmed it had provided “financial and staff support” to the San Francisco Common Sense Coalition, a group that formed in 2010 to oppose an earlier iteration of CleanPowerSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Countermeasure planned\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the IBEW ballot measure, four members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors -- London Breed, John Avalos, Scott Wiener and Julie Christensen -- have drafted their own countermeasure to be placed on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would require \"green,\" \"clean\" and \"greenhouse-gas free\" to be defined in accordance with definitions of eligible renewable resources under state law. And it would cancel out the measure backed by IBEW if it wins more votes. The measure would also prevent PG&E from labeling its nuclear power as \"green\" or \"greenhouse-gas free.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern emphasized that the supervisors' measure “reinforces that RECs are okay.” He added that it \"potentially could legally allow CleanPowerSF to provide dirtier energy than the energy it's replacing\" with RECs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board president Breed introduced the countermeasure, titled the \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov2.org/ftp/uploadedfiles/elections/candidates/Nov2015/CleanEnergy_Text.pdf,\">Clean Energy Right to Know Act,\u003c/a> at the June 16 Board of Supervisors meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After over a dozen years of PG&E standing in the way of cleaner energy, we are finally, finally launching a clean-power program in San Francisco,” she said. “Consumers will finally have a choice about who provides their electricity. 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How are you today?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin is Fresno’s Pumpkin King.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Have you been here before?” he asks a family with several young children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, for many years,” the father says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Me too!” Martin says, laughing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not uncommon to see return customers, Martin says. “I have a lot of customers coming in saying, ‘I can remember coming here as a baby,’ and they’re here now with their babies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10738734\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10738734\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PumpkinKingTruck-800x1028.jpg\" alt=\"The first truck pumpkin king Wayne Martin ever drove now hauls pumpkins.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1028\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PumpkinKingTruck-800x1028.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PumpkinKingTruck-400x514.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PumpkinKingTruck-1440x1850.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PumpkinKingTruck.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PumpkinKingTruck-1180x1516.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PumpkinKingTruck-960x1234.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The first truck pumpkin king Wayne Martin ever drove now hauls pumpkins. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And Martin knows his pumpkins. He used to grow them, but these days he’s solely a pumpkin broker. He buys and sells about 2 million pounds of pumpkins a year. Typically, he meets demands with gourds from California. But this year, because of the drought, he had to cross state lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was very tough for us to find enough pumpkins, so we’re bringing them out of state,” Martin says. “If it wasn’t for the pumpkins I’m bringing out of Oregon, I would be running short this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the drought has hit small growers in California the hardest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s at least four or five small farms around Fresno I used to do business with that are gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s referring to the boutique you-pick pumpkin patches that locals returned to year after year, the ones with hay bales and corn mazes. He says one farmer moved out of state, while others retired or just quit farming pumpkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin says it’s the same in Los Angeles, where a lot of small urban farmers just can’t afford to pay the fines they would accrue using metered water. Some of these farmers, in the “agritainment” business, still operate festive patches with pony rides and caramel corn. But they truck in stemmed pumpkins, instead of offering you-pick varieties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve hauled a tremendous amount of pumpkins to Southern California this year because most of the pumpkin farmers down there have simply given up,” Martin says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10738731\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10738731 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PumpkinTruck-800x503.jpg\" alt=\"Alan Changala's Pumpkin Patch and Ranch in Porterville had a bumper crop this year. His 175,000 pumpkins are enough to sell to needy pumpkin patches in Southern California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PumpkinTruck-800x503.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PumpkinTruck-400x251.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PumpkinTruck-1440x905.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PumpkinTruck.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PumpkinTruck-1180x741.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PumpkinTruck-960x603.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alan Changala’s Pumpkin Patch and Ranch in Porterville had a bumper crop this year. His 175,000 pumpkins are enough to sell to needy pumpkin patches in Southern California. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, some farmers with healthy wells have had bumper crops, especially in places like Manteca, near Modesto, and the Central Coast. And there’s one farmer, Alan Changala, whose pumpkin patch in the Central Valley is drawing pickers from miles around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Changala says he’s had to cut back on growing other crops because of the drought, but his pumpkin ranch, about 50 miles north of Bakersfield in Porterville, is thriving. He says he grows about 3,500 pumpkins to the acre, and he’s got 50 acres of pumpkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s enough for Changala to sell to pumpkin patches in Southern California, where the water is really scarce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But here’s something different — while the drought has been tricky for some growers here, canning pumpkin farmers in the Midwest have had the opposite problem: too much rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So much so that Libby’s, the company that cans most of the pumpkin puree in the United States, reports much lower yields than usual. Fresno Pumpkin King Wayne Martin’s advice? Stock up now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you need pumpkin for your Thanksgiving pie,” he says, “you better get down and get it now because they’re gonna run out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or just get a fresh pumpkin, he adds, and learn how to make your own pumpkin puree.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Wayne Martin stands tall among hundreds of fleshy orange gourds that cover the ground of his pumpkin patch in Fresno. He greets customers with an easy charm that comes from 31 years in the business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/230868384″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/230868384″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hi folks, welcome to the Pumpkin King Pumpkin Patch. How are you today?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin is Fresno’s Pumpkin King.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Have you been here before?” he asks a family with several young children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, for many years,” the father says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Me too!” Martin says, laughing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not uncommon to see return customers, Martin says. “I have a lot of customers coming in saying, ‘I can remember coming here as a baby,’ and they’re here now with their babies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10738734\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10738734\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PumpkinKingTruck-800x1028.jpg\" alt=\"The first truck pumpkin king Wayne Martin ever drove now hauls pumpkins.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1028\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PumpkinKingTruck-800x1028.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PumpkinKingTruck-400x514.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PumpkinKingTruck-1440x1850.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PumpkinKingTruck.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PumpkinKingTruck-1180x1516.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PumpkinKingTruck-960x1234.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The first truck pumpkin king Wayne Martin ever drove now hauls pumpkins. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And Martin knows his pumpkins. He used to grow them, but these days he’s solely a pumpkin broker. He buys and sells about 2 million pounds of pumpkins a year. Typically, he meets demands with gourds from California. But this year, because of the drought, he had to cross state lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was very tough for us to find enough pumpkins, so we’re bringing them out of state,” Martin says. “If it wasn’t for the pumpkins I’m bringing out of Oregon, I would be running short this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the drought has hit small growers in California the hardest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s at least four or five small farms around Fresno I used to do business with that are gone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s referring to the boutique you-pick pumpkin patches that locals returned to year after year, the ones with hay bales and corn mazes. He says one farmer moved out of state, while others retired or just quit farming pumpkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin says it’s the same in Los Angeles, where a lot of small urban farmers just can’t afford to pay the fines they would accrue using metered water. Some of these farmers, in the “agritainment” business, still operate festive patches with pony rides and caramel corn. But they truck in stemmed pumpkins, instead of offering you-pick varieties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve hauled a tremendous amount of pumpkins to Southern California this year because most of the pumpkin farmers down there have simply given up,” Martin says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10738731\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10738731 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PumpkinTruck-800x503.jpg\" alt=\"Alan Changala's Pumpkin Patch and Ranch in Porterville had a bumper crop this year. His 175,000 pumpkins are enough to sell to needy pumpkin patches in Southern California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PumpkinTruck-800x503.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PumpkinTruck-400x251.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PumpkinTruck-1440x905.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PumpkinTruck.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PumpkinTruck-1180x741.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/PumpkinTruck-960x603.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alan Changala’s Pumpkin Patch and Ranch in Porterville had a bumper crop this year. His 175,000 pumpkins are enough to sell to needy pumpkin patches in Southern California. \u003ccite>(Alice Daniel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, some farmers with healthy wells have had bumper crops, especially in places like Manteca, near Modesto, and the Central Coast. And there’s one farmer, Alan Changala, whose pumpkin patch in the Central Valley is drawing pickers from miles around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Changala says he’s had to cut back on growing other crops because of the drought, but his pumpkin ranch, about 50 miles north of Bakersfield in Porterville, is thriving. He says he grows about 3,500 pumpkins to the acre, and he’s got 50 acres of pumpkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s enough for Changala to sell to pumpkin patches in Southern California, where the water is really scarce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But here’s something different — while the drought has been tricky for some growers here, canning pumpkin farmers in the Midwest have had the opposite problem: too much rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So much so that Libby’s, the company that cans most of the pumpkin puree in the United States, reports much lower yields than usual. Fresno Pumpkin King Wayne Martin’s advice? Stock up now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you need pumpkin for your Thanksgiving pie,” he says, “you better get down and get it now because they’re gonna run out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or just get a fresh pumpkin, he adds, and learn how to make your own pumpkin puree.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The wind energy company that received a controversial extension in March to continue operating hundreds of old wind turbines in the Altamont Pass is now planning to shut them down, according to an email KQED has obtained. The company might also be replacing them with fewer new turbines, a move that would make its operation safer for birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altamont Winds, Inc. (AWI), one of the largest operators in the East Bay’s Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area, told the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) in an Oct. 23 email that it is permanently shutting down all its turbines there by Sunday. The company operates 828 turbines in the Altamont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91965\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Michael_Lynes_Audubon_073115_resized.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Michael_Lynes_Audubon_073115_resized-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Lynes, director of public policy at Audubon California. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-91965\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Michael_Lynes_Audubon_073115_resized-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Michael_Lynes_Audubon_073115_resized-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Michael_Lynes_Audubon_073115_resized-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Michael_Lynes_Audubon_073115_resized.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Michael_Lynes_Audubon_073115_resized-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Michael_Lynes_Audubon_073115_resized-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Lynes, director of public policy at Audubon California. \u003ccite>(Gabriela Quirós/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The sudden move is important, environmentalists say, because hundreds of birds die at the Altamont each year after getting hit by wind turbine blades, colliding with windmills, or becoming trapped inside them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a good outcome for birds in the Altamont,” says Michael Lynes, director of public policy for Audubon California, in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other wind companies that own turbines in the Altamont, NextEra and EDF Renewable Energy, are replacing hundreds of old turbines with fewer, more powerful and more carefully sited turbines, a measure referred to as “repowering” that biologists say can reduce bird deaths. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91966\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Patterson_Pass_turbines_01_resized.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Patterson_Pass_turbines_01_resized-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"EDF Renewable Energy, a wind energy company based in San Diego, plans to replace about 300 turbines at its Patterson Pass wind farm, in the Altamont, with 10 to 12 new turbines. Together, the new turbines will produce twice as much electricity as the old ones did. Biologists have found that replacing a group of old turbines with carefully sited new turbines can reduce bird mortality at wind farms. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-91966\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Patterson_Pass_turbines_01_resized-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Patterson_Pass_turbines_01_resized-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Patterson_Pass_turbines_01_resized-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Patterson_Pass_turbines_01_resized.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Patterson_Pass_turbines_01_resized-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Patterson_Pass_turbines_01_resized-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">EDF Renewable Energy, a wind energy company based in San Diego, plans to replace about 300 turbines at its Patterson Pass wind farm, in the Altamont, with 10 to 12 new turbines. Together, the new turbines will produce twice as much electricity as the old ones did. Biologists have found that replacing a group of old turbines with carefully sited new turbines can reduce bird mortality at wind farms. \u003ccite>(Gabriela Quirós/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By keeping turbines out of low-lying areas of the Altamont, for example, companies could help golden eagles, says biologist Joe DiDonato, who is part of a team that has been monitoring 18 of these birds through radio transmitters. Golden eagles can hit a turbine as they fly low in the terrain in search of prey. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re using that hill as a camouflage to slip around the corner and maybe grab an unsuspecting squirrel,” said DiDonato on a recent visit to the Altamont Pass area, as he pointed to a golden eagle flying nearby. “If they’re coming around the low end of a ridge and the wind picks them up, it could push them towards a wind turbine blade as well.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91963\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Joe_DiDonato_at_Buena_Vista_072815_02_resized.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Joe_DiDonato_at_Buena_Vista_072815_02_resized-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Biologist Joe DiDonato looked for golden eagles at the Buena Vista wind farm, in the Altamont Pass, in July. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-91963\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Joe_DiDonato_at_Buena_Vista_072815_02_resized-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Joe_DiDonato_at_Buena_Vista_072815_02_resized-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Joe_DiDonato_at_Buena_Vista_072815_02_resized-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Joe_DiDonato_at_Buena_Vista_072815_02_resized.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Joe_DiDonato_at_Buena_Vista_072815_02_resized-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Joe_DiDonato_at_Buena_Vista_072815_02_resized-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Biologist Joe DiDonato looked for golden eagles at the Buena Vista wind farm, in the Altamont Pass, in July. \u003ccite>(Gabriela Quirós/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Concern About Birds Said to Prompt Closure \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AWI’s permit from Alameda County had required the company to remove its turbines this year, in order to reduce bird deaths. But the company instead applied for a three-year extension to the county, which oversees operation of most of the 78-square-mile Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to Alameda County, Jill Birchell, special agent in charge of the USFWS’ Office of Law Enforcement for California and Nevada wrote that turbines “owned and operated” by AWI in the Altamont had been associated with the death or injury of 67 golden eagles between 2004 and 2014. She recommended that the county deny AWI’s request to extend its operation permit for its turbines. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on March 24, the county’s board of supervisors gave AWI a controversial extension that allowed the Tracy wind company to continue operating its old-generation turbines until 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abruptly last week, on Oct. 23, AWI vice president Bill Damon sent an email to the USFWS in Sacramento informing the agency of its decision to close down all its Altamont turbines by Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reduction of avian impacts was a primary factor that influenced our decision to discontinue operating our Altamont wind farms,” Damon wrote in his email. KQED has obtained a copy of the email, but neither Damon nor AWI president Rick Koebbe returned calls and emails seeking confirmation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Black Eye’ for Wind Energy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91967\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Smallwood_golden_eagles_turbine_resized.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Smallwood_golden_eagles_turbine_resized-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Golden eagles fly by a wind turbine in the Altamont Pass. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-91967\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Smallwood_golden_eagles_turbine_resized-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Smallwood_golden_eagles_turbine_resized-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Smallwood_golden_eagles_turbine_resized-1440x811.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Smallwood_golden_eagles_turbine_resized.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Smallwood_golden_eagles_turbine_resized-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Smallwood_golden_eagles_turbine_resized-960x541.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Golden eagles fly by a wind turbine in the Altamont Pass. \u003ccite>(Shawn Smallwood)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the early 1980s, wind companies installed 7,000 turbines in the Altamont Pass. Shortly after the wind farms opened, scientists discovered the turbines were killing hundreds of birds of prey each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Altamont was sort of seen as a black eye for renewable energy,” says the Audubon’s Lynes, “because anytime someone was proposing a new wind farm, it would raise the specter of the Altamont Pass.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2005, several local chapters of the Audubon Society, as well as other environmental groups, sued to force wind companies to protect birds in the Altamont. The settlement reached in 2007 required Alameda County and wind companies to cut bird mortality in half by 2009. To that end, companies agreed to remove turbines that biologists deemed to be most dangerous to birds. They also began to shut down their turbines during the winter months, when electricity demand is lowest and bird activity highest. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91968\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Turbine_decommissioned_Tres_Vaqueros_072815_02_resized4.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Turbine_decommissioned_Tres_Vaqueros_072815_02_resized4-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Workers pulled down this wind turbine at the Tres Vaqueros wind farm in the Altamont Pass in July. All throughout the Altamont, companies are tearing down old turbines. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-91968\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Turbine_decommissioned_Tres_Vaqueros_072815_02_resized4-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Turbine_decommissioned_Tres_Vaqueros_072815_02_resized4-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Turbine_decommissioned_Tres_Vaqueros_072815_02_resized4-1440x811.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Turbine_decommissioned_Tres_Vaqueros_072815_02_resized4.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Turbine_decommissioned_Tres_Vaqueros_072815_02_resized4-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Turbine_decommissioned_Tres_Vaqueros_072815_02_resized4-960x541.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers pulled down this wind turbine at the Tres Vaqueros wind farm in the Altamont Pass in July. All throughout the Altamont, companies are tearing down old turbines. \u003ccite>(Gabriela Quirós/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Altamont Pass has only about 3,000 turbines now. But statistics compiled by the county in 2014 show bird mortality has decreased by only 25 to 40 percent, depending on the species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AWI, which is based in Tracy, has applied for a permit from Alameda County to replace 511 of its turbines with 33 new turbines, says Sandra Rivera, of the Alameda County Planning Department. Rivera says the East County Board of Zoning Adjustments is scheduled to hear AWI’s request for this repowering permit on Nov. 19. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new 33 turbines would together produce as much energy as the 511 old turbines, a total of 54 MW. This is equivalent to one sixth of the Altamont’s total current capacity. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera calls the news that AWI plans to shut down all its turbines and seek a permit to replace most of them “a big deal.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They (AWI) will be in sync with the rest of the repowering,” Rivera says. “And the old-gen turbines, which are known to cause more fatalities, will be removed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county requires companies to remove any turbines they shut down within a year of doing so, says Rivera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91961\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Doug_Bell_EBRPD_at_Buena_Vista_072815_resized.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Doug_Bell_EBRPD_at_Buena_Vista_072815_resized-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Doug Bell, wildlife program manager at the East Bay Regional Park District, visits Buena Vista wind farm in July. In 2007 Buena Vista was one of the first wind farms in the Altamont Pass where old turbines were replaced with new ones. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-91961\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Doug_Bell_EBRPD_at_Buena_Vista_072815_resized-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Doug_Bell_EBRPD_at_Buena_Vista_072815_resized-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Doug_Bell_EBRPD_at_Buena_Vista_072815_resized-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Doug_Bell_EBRPD_at_Buena_Vista_072815_resized.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Doug_Bell_EBRPD_at_Buena_Vista_072815_resized-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Doug_Bell_EBRPD_at_Buena_Vista_072815_resized-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doug Bell, wildlife program manager at the East Bay Regional Park District, visits Buena Vista wind farm in July. In 2007 Buena Vista was one of the first wind farms in the Altamont Pass where old turbines were replaced with new ones. \u003ccite>(Gabriela Quirós/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Only as we do the careful repowering can we hope to reduce the overall kill rates of golden eagles,” says Doug Bell, wildlife program manager at the East Bay Regional Park District. “Not only should energy production be sustainable in terms of carbon off-sets; it should also be sustainable in terms of the wildlife and the local impacts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Golden Eagles Better Protected\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Golden eagles are of particular concern in the Altamont Pass, which is part of the densest nesting area for these raptors in the world, Bell says. According to Alameda County estimates, wind turbines at Altamont killed some 35 golden eagles in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Altamont is killing more eagles than the local population can reproduce,” says Bell, who does research on golden eagles. “It’s taking out more youngsters than they can produce and replace themselves with. Their population is going down the drain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Golden eagles are protected by federal law and it’s illegal to kill a single eagle. Wind energy has tripled in the country in the past seven years and the federal government has stepped up enforcement of the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91962\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Golden_eagle_necropsy_CU_resized.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Golden_eagle_necropsy_CU_resized-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Krysta Rogers, of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife in Sacramento holds up the wing of a dead golden eagle. The eagle was found injured on July 25 on a wind farm in the Altamont Pass operated by AWI and had to be euthanized, according to an East Bay Regional Park District report. Rogers said the amputation to the bird’s left wing was “consistent with a wind turbine strike.” \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-91962\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Golden_eagle_necropsy_CU_resized-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Golden_eagle_necropsy_CU_resized-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Golden_eagle_necropsy_CU_resized-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Golden_eagle_necropsy_CU_resized.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Golden_eagle_necropsy_CU_resized-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Golden_eagle_necropsy_CU_resized-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Krysta Rogers, of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife in Sacramento holds up the wing of a dead golden eagle. The eagle was found injured on July 25 on a wind farm in the Altamont Pass operated by AWI and had to be euthanized, according to an East Bay Regional Park District report. Rogers said the amputation to the bird’s left wing was “consistent with a wind turbine strike.” \u003ccite>(Gabriela Quirós/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Department of Justice, with help from the USFWS, has prosecuted two wind energy companies—Duke Energy Renewables and PacifiCorp Energy—for the killing of golden eagles and other birds on their wind farms in Wyoming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in 2014 the USFWS awarded its first so-called eagle “take” permit. These permits allow wind energy companies to kill a small number of golden eagles each year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The prosecution of those two companies certainly sent a message to companies across the country that the Service will, and can, prosecute companies for violation of the Bald and Golden Eagle Act,” says U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) spokesperson Scott Flaherty. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The USFWS has 16 open investigations on wind energy companies around the country, Flaherty says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency has opened a criminal investigation of one company doing business in the Altamont concerning its turbines’ “take” of golden eagles, Birchell said in an email in July. Birchell wouldn’t say which company the agency was investigating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upon hearing that AWI has told the USFWS it will shut down all its turbines, Bell, the golden eagle researcher, says he is \"relieved.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the right thing to do,” says Bell.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The wind energy company that received a controversial extension in March to continue operating hundreds of old wind turbines in the Altamont Pass is now planning to shut them down, according to an email KQED has obtained. The company might also be replacing them with fewer new turbines, a move that would make its operation safer for birds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altamont Winds, Inc. (AWI), one of the largest operators in the East Bay’s Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area, told the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) in an Oct. 23 email that it is permanently shutting down all its turbines there by Sunday. The company operates 828 turbines in the Altamont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91965\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Michael_Lynes_Audubon_073115_resized.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Michael_Lynes_Audubon_073115_resized-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Lynes, director of public policy at Audubon California. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-91965\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Michael_Lynes_Audubon_073115_resized-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Michael_Lynes_Audubon_073115_resized-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Michael_Lynes_Audubon_073115_resized-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Michael_Lynes_Audubon_073115_resized.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Michael_Lynes_Audubon_073115_resized-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Michael_Lynes_Audubon_073115_resized-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Lynes, director of public policy at Audubon California. \u003ccite>(Gabriela Quirós/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The sudden move is important, environmentalists say, because hundreds of birds die at the Altamont each year after getting hit by wind turbine blades, colliding with windmills, or becoming trapped inside them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a good outcome for birds in the Altamont,” says Michael Lynes, director of public policy for Audubon California, in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other wind companies that own turbines in the Altamont, NextEra and EDF Renewable Energy, are replacing hundreds of old turbines with fewer, more powerful and more carefully sited turbines, a measure referred to as “repowering” that biologists say can reduce bird deaths. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91966\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Patterson_Pass_turbines_01_resized.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Patterson_Pass_turbines_01_resized-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"EDF Renewable Energy, a wind energy company based in San Diego, plans to replace about 300 turbines at its Patterson Pass wind farm, in the Altamont, with 10 to 12 new turbines. Together, the new turbines will produce twice as much electricity as the old ones did. Biologists have found that replacing a group of old turbines with carefully sited new turbines can reduce bird mortality at wind farms. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-91966\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Patterson_Pass_turbines_01_resized-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Patterson_Pass_turbines_01_resized-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Patterson_Pass_turbines_01_resized-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Patterson_Pass_turbines_01_resized.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Patterson_Pass_turbines_01_resized-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Patterson_Pass_turbines_01_resized-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">EDF Renewable Energy, a wind energy company based in San Diego, plans to replace about 300 turbines at its Patterson Pass wind farm, in the Altamont, with 10 to 12 new turbines. Together, the new turbines will produce twice as much electricity as the old ones did. Biologists have found that replacing a group of old turbines with carefully sited new turbines can reduce bird mortality at wind farms. \u003ccite>(Gabriela Quirós/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By keeping turbines out of low-lying areas of the Altamont, for example, companies could help golden eagles, says biologist Joe DiDonato, who is part of a team that has been monitoring 18 of these birds through radio transmitters. Golden eagles can hit a turbine as they fly low in the terrain in search of prey. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re using that hill as a camouflage to slip around the corner and maybe grab an unsuspecting squirrel,” said DiDonato on a recent visit to the Altamont Pass area, as he pointed to a golden eagle flying nearby. “If they’re coming around the low end of a ridge and the wind picks them up, it could push them towards a wind turbine blade as well.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91963\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Joe_DiDonato_at_Buena_Vista_072815_02_resized.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Joe_DiDonato_at_Buena_Vista_072815_02_resized-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Biologist Joe DiDonato looked for golden eagles at the Buena Vista wind farm, in the Altamont Pass, in July. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-91963\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Joe_DiDonato_at_Buena_Vista_072815_02_resized-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Joe_DiDonato_at_Buena_Vista_072815_02_resized-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Joe_DiDonato_at_Buena_Vista_072815_02_resized-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Joe_DiDonato_at_Buena_Vista_072815_02_resized.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Joe_DiDonato_at_Buena_Vista_072815_02_resized-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Joe_DiDonato_at_Buena_Vista_072815_02_resized-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Biologist Joe DiDonato looked for golden eagles at the Buena Vista wind farm, in the Altamont Pass, in July. \u003ccite>(Gabriela Quirós/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Concern About Birds Said to Prompt Closure \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AWI’s permit from Alameda County had required the company to remove its turbines this year, in order to reduce bird deaths. But the company instead applied for a three-year extension to the county, which oversees operation of most of the 78-square-mile Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to Alameda County, Jill Birchell, special agent in charge of the USFWS’ Office of Law Enforcement for California and Nevada wrote that turbines “owned and operated” by AWI in the Altamont had been associated with the death or injury of 67 golden eagles between 2004 and 2014. She recommended that the county deny AWI’s request to extend its operation permit for its turbines. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on March 24, the county’s board of supervisors gave AWI a controversial extension that allowed the Tracy wind company to continue operating its old-generation turbines until 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abruptly last week, on Oct. 23, AWI vice president Bill Damon sent an email to the USFWS in Sacramento informing the agency of its decision to close down all its Altamont turbines by Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reduction of avian impacts was a primary factor that influenced our decision to discontinue operating our Altamont wind farms,” Damon wrote in his email. KQED has obtained a copy of the email, but neither Damon nor AWI president Rick Koebbe returned calls and emails seeking confirmation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Black Eye’ for Wind Energy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91967\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Smallwood_golden_eagles_turbine_resized.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Smallwood_golden_eagles_turbine_resized-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Golden eagles fly by a wind turbine in the Altamont Pass. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-91967\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Smallwood_golden_eagles_turbine_resized-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Smallwood_golden_eagles_turbine_resized-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Smallwood_golden_eagles_turbine_resized-1440x811.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Smallwood_golden_eagles_turbine_resized.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Smallwood_golden_eagles_turbine_resized-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Smallwood_golden_eagles_turbine_resized-960x541.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Golden eagles fly by a wind turbine in the Altamont Pass. \u003ccite>(Shawn Smallwood)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the early 1980s, wind companies installed 7,000 turbines in the Altamont Pass. Shortly after the wind farms opened, scientists discovered the turbines were killing hundreds of birds of prey each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Altamont was sort of seen as a black eye for renewable energy,” says the Audubon’s Lynes, “because anytime someone was proposing a new wind farm, it would raise the specter of the Altamont Pass.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2005, several local chapters of the Audubon Society, as well as other environmental groups, sued to force wind companies to protect birds in the Altamont. The settlement reached in 2007 required Alameda County and wind companies to cut bird mortality in half by 2009. To that end, companies agreed to remove turbines that biologists deemed to be most dangerous to birds. They also began to shut down their turbines during the winter months, when electricity demand is lowest and bird activity highest. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91968\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Turbine_decommissioned_Tres_Vaqueros_072815_02_resized4.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Turbine_decommissioned_Tres_Vaqueros_072815_02_resized4-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Workers pulled down this wind turbine at the Tres Vaqueros wind farm in the Altamont Pass in July. All throughout the Altamont, companies are tearing down old turbines. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-91968\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Turbine_decommissioned_Tres_Vaqueros_072815_02_resized4-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Turbine_decommissioned_Tres_Vaqueros_072815_02_resized4-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Turbine_decommissioned_Tres_Vaqueros_072815_02_resized4-1440x811.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Turbine_decommissioned_Tres_Vaqueros_072815_02_resized4.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Turbine_decommissioned_Tres_Vaqueros_072815_02_resized4-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Turbine_decommissioned_Tres_Vaqueros_072815_02_resized4-960x541.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers pulled down this wind turbine at the Tres Vaqueros wind farm in the Altamont Pass in July. All throughout the Altamont, companies are tearing down old turbines. \u003ccite>(Gabriela Quirós/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Altamont Pass has only about 3,000 turbines now. But statistics compiled by the county in 2014 show bird mortality has decreased by only 25 to 40 percent, depending on the species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AWI, which is based in Tracy, has applied for a permit from Alameda County to replace 511 of its turbines with 33 new turbines, says Sandra Rivera, of the Alameda County Planning Department. Rivera says the East County Board of Zoning Adjustments is scheduled to hear AWI’s request for this repowering permit on Nov. 19. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new 33 turbines would together produce as much energy as the 511 old turbines, a total of 54 MW. This is equivalent to one sixth of the Altamont’s total current capacity. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera calls the news that AWI plans to shut down all its turbines and seek a permit to replace most of them “a big deal.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They (AWI) will be in sync with the rest of the repowering,” Rivera says. “And the old-gen turbines, which are known to cause more fatalities, will be removed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county requires companies to remove any turbines they shut down within a year of doing so, says Rivera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_91961\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Doug_Bell_EBRPD_at_Buena_Vista_072815_resized.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2015/11/Doug_Bell_EBRPD_at_Buena_Vista_072815_resized-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Doug Bell, wildlife program manager at the East Bay Regional Park District, visits Buena Vista wind farm in July. 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