| According to Monterey County Supervisor, Glenn Church, this latest fire is the 4th at this facility since 2019. Church went onto describe the January 16th fire as the “Three Mile Island event” of lithium battery facilities.
Additionally, the concerns about the sea otter habitat near the facility have been validated with findings in soil and water samples of high concentrations of nickel, cobalt and magnesium. According to the research scientists at San José State University’s Moss Landing Marine Laboratories there is a “clear connection between the increase in heavy metals in the soil and the battery facility fire.”
The Moss Landing fire appears to be putting the brakes on the proposed Vistra Energy’s lithium storage facility in San Jose Capistrano which is between San Diego and Los Angeles.
Ah yes, even in California, reality is sinking in that the “green” in green energy is GREEN, as in MONEY!!!
Closer to home on October 30, 2024 there was a lithium battery fire in Fredrickstown, Missouri, south of St Louis. This lithium battery fire was in a “state of the art facility” with fire suppression in place to prevent runaway thermal events (explosions and fires). However, the unthinkable did happen. Fredrickstown residents were evacuated and/or ordered to stay inside. It took 2 weeks for the fire to burn out, even with the use of foam, which contained forever chemicals. The resulting runoff caused a 3-mile-long fish kill in an adjacent creek and river.
And so, in Johnson County 600,000 plus of us live downwind from the Panasonic Lithium battery plant and NextEra’s proposed lithium battery storage facility. And most, if not all, of this area drains into the Kansas River.
What could possibly go wrong???
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