The proposal would increase electricity rates. And it will increase unemployment by destroying 1,500 good jobs, and sending those jobs to out of state natural gas fracking operations.

The proposal exposes the deep rot and hypocrisy within anti-nuclear groups NRDC and FOE. Organizations seeking to increase carbon emissions by moving from low-carbon energy to natural gas from fracking must be called what they are: anti-environmental organizations. By moving from nuclear to natural gas, these organizations are putting our children and grandchildren at risk of worsened global warming, ocean acidification and air pollution. They are acting on unscientific dogma as dangerous as that espoused by anti-vaxxers.

Already 100 people had signed up to attend our Friday 3:45 pm protest of NRDC headquarters in San Francisco. We expect those numbers to increase significantly between now and then.

Already 100 people had signed up for our March for Environmental Hope! We expect those numbers to increase significantly. The March will go on.

The clarity provided by this corrupt deal allows us to focus on what matters: using the March as a strategic retreat to develop our political, legal and organizing strategy to achieve victory — not just for Diablo Canyon, but all nuclear plants threatened by anti-nuclear organizations, corrupt unions, craven policymakers and short-term corporate executives.

We will win because the moral arc of the universe bends toward justice.

We will win because the Californian people will defend their children and grandchildren against the suffering and danger this proposal would create.

We will win because we have five years to expose the truth, grow our movement and move the state and nation.

We will win because Californians, the American people and all humans love our children and grandchildren more than we believe superstitions or tolerate corruption.

We will win because people who love and care deeply about nature will come to see the environmental disaster this proposal would create.