About Author: Jerry Collamer

Description: Jerry Collamer is a creative communications specialist. Backgrounds in National Advertising and Television Communication. Writer. Artist. Native Californian with a world-view career arch. Pragmatic and common sense urban activist -- co-founder of Wild Heritage Planners.

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Loose Nuts: Edison Reveals Huge Gap in Safety at San Onofre

Posted on April 9, 2018 | 1 Comment
Toonman Collamer opines: Work crews transferring radioactive spent fuel (nuclear waste) at the San Onofre nuclear plant from cooling pools into dry storage discovered a loose bolt inside one of the canisters, prompting Southern California Edison to temporarily halt the relocation effort. -- Los Angeles Times
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San Onofre: Beachfront Leaky Nuclear Waste Facility Underway

Posted on March 25, 2017 | 1 Comment
San Onofre Nuclear Plant, on the coast of California, is busy building a nuclear waste dump for 1,600 tons of spent fuel on a bluff overlooking the Pacific. Most U.S. nuclear power facilities store highly radioactive waste in thin-walled canisters (mostly 1/2-inch thick) that both the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the Department of Energy (DOE) admit cannot be inspected (on the outside or inside), cannot be maintained, repaired, and can crack and leak in the short-term.
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Orange County Toll Road Agency Pushing 241 Extension AGAIN

Posted on October 17, 2016 | 2 Comments
Jerry Collamer expounds on the not-so-shockingly tone-deaf antics of the Orange County Toll Road Agency that will literally do anything to extend their oft-rejected SR 241 Foothill Toll Road through the backcountry wilderness and down around world class surf destination, Trestles Beach. What did Einstein say about doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results?
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Orange County Automates Toll Road Collections to Increase Profits

Posted on May 30, 2014 | 1 Comment
OC's toll roads have a new way to make money from their empty lanes crisscrossing the county: Hundreds of dollars charged in automated fines per missed toll payment, versus a measly single-time $6-per toll. Commuters beware.
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Decommissioning San Onofre: Money Over Meltdown

Posted on May 13, 2014 | 1 Comment
San Onofre’s nuclear reactors are permanently shut down. However, Southern California Edison has left tons of highly radioactive nuclear waste that will remain on site for decades, if not longer. San Onofre’s spent fuel contains 89 times the amount of radiation (Cesium-137) released from Chernobyl. What is being done to rectify this situation?
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OC Toll Road Follies: CEO Resigns Amid Funding Anti-Enviros

Posted on March 14, 2014 | No Comments
Orange County Transportation Corridor Agencies (TCA) CEO Neil Peterson, who was placed on leave last month, has offered to resign in exchange for receiving a hefty out-the-door payment. This from an agency suffering low toll revenues and misguided attempts to extend their roads against environmental rules and opposition.
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Caltrans Driving Us to Freeway Insanity

Posted on January 5, 2014 | 1 Comment
Caltrans plans to widen the 91 Freeway [again], spending $1.3 Billion to improve commute speeds 1.5 miles per hour, while further destroying the only wildlife connection between the Santa Ana Mountains and the Puente-Chino Hills. Commuter trains, anyone?
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OC Toll Road: Empty, Failing, Better Used as Landing Strip

Posted on December 12, 2013 | No Comments
When a pilot instructor and student emergency-landed a small plane in the perpetually-empty northbound lanes of the debt-ridden, failing-business-model 241 toll road in Orange County, California, he exclaimed: "What a waste of perfectly good asphalt."
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Dead Sparrow Awakening – By Jerry Collamer

Posted on December 4, 2013 | No Comments
Jerry Collamer muses on the sanctity of life, the impact and burden of death, and the awakening of a child to the reality of the world.
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Hunters Beware: The Wild Things are Taking it Back

Posted on September 19, 2013 | No Comments
In the Court of the Forest, the captured hunter is released into the wild...naked, to seek his sport-kill with nothing but his wits.
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Mapping the Pro-Nuclear Brain

Posted on September 8, 2013 | No Comments
Scientists ask the Pro-Nukers: "Do the positive possibilities that nuclear energy poses outweigh the negative? How would building more nuclear power plants in the US affect animals, plant life, people, and the economy? Should the US dedicate more time, money, and energy into creating more power plants or should the US try and shut down what power plants it already has?" Then they map the answers on the brain...
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Freezing Fukushima: The Solution

Posted on September 6, 2013 | No Comments
"Utilizing new technologies, we will freeze the 100-square miles surrounding the devastated plant, surgically remove it, towing it by barge to the Arctic where it will remain frozen, rendering it harmless. Comments regarding global warming will be addressed in a private conference at a later date."
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March on Washington: Demonstration for Freedom Continues

Posted on August 31, 2013 | 1 Comment
Watch "The March," a documentary from 1964, re-released to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington. At this year's ceremony in DC, Republican politicians opted to stay home. Maybe they all had prior engagements...
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Nuclear: Vermont Yankee to Close, 22 Fukushimas Still Threaten US

Posted on August 30, 2013 | No Comments
The Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor, one of the oldest nuclear plants in the country and the subject of heated battles over the decades, will close late next year. This would leave the US with 99 operating reactors. Four reactors in Georgia and South Carolina are under construction, and the Tennessee Valley Authority is finishing a fifth in Tennessee. But the industry is in a period of rapid decline.
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$The impact of natural gas hydrofracturing, discussed in a diner in BlondCounty, by Jerry Collamer.$
Fracking and Eco-Poppycock in BlondCounty

Posted on August 28, 2013 | No Comments
The impact of natural gas hydrofracturing, discussed in a diner in BlondCounty, by Jerry Collamer.
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This Country’s Going to Socialist Hell – By Jerry Collamer

Posted on August 24, 2013 | 1 Comment
Jerry Collamer on the state of the nation's political dialogue ongoing in BlondCounty and at a diner near you.
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Fukushima Meltdown: Flush the Radiated Mess into the Pacific

Posted on August 15, 2013 | 4 Comments
Almost two and a half years after the nuclear meltdowns at Fukushima, the head of Japan's Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) raised concern on August 5 about the continued flow of radioactive water from the plant going into the Pacific Ocean, telling Reuters, "Right now we have a state of emergency." Hmm, yes, sounds about right.
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Toll Roads, Please Take Me Away!

Posted on June 29, 2013 | No Comments
No matter where they're stuck in OC's sprawling road network: on I-5, the 405, Crown Valley Parkway, or in their own driveway -- a magical toll road miles from their moribund vehicular situation will time-travel them up, to that heavenly place of commuter-bliss, where slowdowns never occur.
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San Onofre Nuclear Plant Closing: 8.4 Million Rejoice – By Jerry Collamer

Posted on June 6, 2013 | 1 Comment
8.4 million people, put at risk for radioactive disaster from a meltdown at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, now rejoice as Southern California Edison announces its closure.
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What Every SoCal Beach Town Suffers: Parking

Posted on May 23, 2013 | 2 Comments
"San Fran has Coit Tower. Paris its Eiffel Tower. DC the Washington Monument. New York City, the Statue of liberty, and us, we got some downtown parking."
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Edison’s Reef: A Not So Glowing Report — By Jerry Collamer

Posted on April 27, 2013 | 3 Comments
While large fish fail to thrive at Southern California Edison's artificial reef off the coast of San Clemente, California, mitigation mandated by the California Coastal Commission to repair destroyed kelp beds at their San Onofre Nuclear Plant (called SONGS), a wider marine mammal crisis is ongoing. Could radiation released from SONGS be the culprit in both cases?
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Scary Nuke News: San Onofre Wants Live Tube-Rupture Experiment

Posted on March 21, 2013 | 5 Comments
Southern California Edison says its analysis confirms that it would be safe to fire up the nuclear plant's Unit 2 reactor, but as a precautionary move it is proposing running it at only 70%. Yet it also suggests that running San Onofre at 100 percent for 11 months would present a strong possibility of a tube rupture resulting in a catastrophic release of radiation into the environment.
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Stupid Toll Road (STR-241) to Nowhere, Still Nowhere Fast

Posted on March 15, 2013 | 2 Comments
A movement to pave over San Onofre State Beach and Trestles with a toll-road-to-nowhere-for-nobody-but-developers was rejected by the California Coastal Commission and Federal Commerce Department in 2008. Yet, here again the State Water Boards will decide in May whether to grant a permit for the "Stupid Toll Road" to dump contaminated runoff into creeks and the ocean while keeping the dream alive of paving over Trestles.
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Trestles Beach: National Treasure or Toll Road Off-Ramp?

Posted on March 12, 2013 | 3 Comments
World-renowned San Onofre and Trestles have been synonymous with California surfing since the 1930s. A movement to pave over the park and beach with a toll road was rejected by in 2008. We now have the opportunity to have it recognized for its historical contributions by being listed in the National Register of Historic Places, and stop that toll road project for good.
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Show Goes on in Bid to Restart Leaking Nuke Plant – By Jerry Collamer

Posted on February 20, 2013 | No Comments
For darn sure don't mention that cancerous creaky ol'nuke plant you were so handsomely paid to cheer for. Because talk of radioactivity at home, in the workplace, or at your kid's school, ruins an otherwise perfect day, no matter what.
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An Array of Utopian Flowers
- The Truth About Hydrogen: Green Fuel or Greenwash?
  Posted on January 17, 2023 | 1 Comment
- Burning Cedar: Revitalizing Indigenous Foodways & Sovereign Wellness
  Posted on January 11, 2023 | No Comments
- ZeroHouz: Ditching Fossil Fuels for a Zero Emissions Home
  Posted on December 19, 2022 | 1 Comment
- Healing the World’s Ecosystems with the Soil Food Web
  Posted on December 9, 2022 | 3 Comments
- The Literary Labyrinth of Stephen T. Vessels
  Posted on November 27, 2022 | No Comments
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Santa Barbara Literary Journal released ‘Bellatrix: Volume 3’ in June 2019, which among adventurous fiction, poetry, essays, and lyrics, features an excerpt of Jack Eidt’s psychic-animism fiction, Medicine Walk. Buy the book!

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About Author: Jerry Collamer

Posts by Jerry Collamer

An Array of Utopian Flowers

WilderUtopia in 102 Languages

Tales of the Fifth Dimension – The Fifth Fedora

‘Medicine Walk’ Featured in SBLitJo

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