Hybrid format
The Cliffs Hotel
2757 Shell Beach Drive,
Pismo Beach, CA 93449
Wednesday July 9th - Friday July 11th, 2025
CALL TO ACTION:
Attend in Person!
The Coastal Commission only comes to the Central Coast once or twice per year so this is a grand opportunity.
Plan on attending on Thursday, July 10th, public comment is at the top of the meeting around 9:15 a.m. Register to speak here:
https://www.coastal.ca.gov/meetings/agenda/#/2025/7
Once on the meeting agenda, click on the green button that says “SUBMIT SPEAKER REQUEST HERE”. You will then go through a number of screens and answering questions.
And if you are not comfortable speaking, please attend and support the efforts of REACT Alliance in opposing Offshore Wind.
IF SPEAKING, HERE ARE SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT:
1. Remind that an Operations and Maintenance (O & M) Port may entail, such as New Bedford Mass, where the turbines are towed for repairs.
2. Inform that REACT Alliance will be proceeding on "business as usual" in the efforts against OSW, even with the most recent actions by the president.
3. Inquire about their understanding of the cost of the energy produced? Most data states that 3-4 times more than other energy sources. How will the low income residents of CA afford this cost?
4. Demand (AGAIN) the Coastal Staff heed the many studies that have been provided to them that counter many of the "assumptions" they have made in issuance of their permits.
5. Discuss the transmission plan from the Energy Dept that shows many additional lease sites and transmission line landings.
6. Reiterate the impacts to the fishing industry, including increased large vessel traffic, navigation hazards, decreased upwellings, EMF leaks, migration and breeding patterns impacted from noise and EMF of High volt cables, and mass killing of benthic habitat and species from high decibel mapping close to the ocean bottom floor.
7. Discuss the concerns of the “Big Sur Coastline” famous viewshed that people travel from all over the world to see, now potentially filled with giant 300’ OSW service vessels, oil rig sized substations, and hundreds of 1000 ft. wind turbines?
8. Share your concerns about the lack of ANY relevant public outreach for the project as well as the 3 feasibility studies at Port San Luis and the feasibility study in Morro Bay.
Here is a link to the virtual meeting procedures; https://www.coastal.ca.gov/meetings/agenda/#/2025/3https://documents.coastal.ca.gov/assets/virtual-hearing/VIRTUAL-HEARING-PROCEDURES.pdf