Last night [Sept. 9], I attended a special community meeting at the Hervey\/Point Loma Branch Library that was set up to discuss the plans of a private company to capture excess methane gas at the sewage treatment plant, compress it and haul it in large trucks down our residential streets and out of the community.\u00a0 The city had already approved the project, but residents of Point Loma woke up late to what was happening and got organized and made something happen.\u00a0 It was community activism at its best.\u00a0 Hundreds of people showed up, District 2 Councilmember Kevin Faulconer was there, SDG&E, and several TV station reporters.\u00a0 The result of this activism was that the plans to truck the gas appear to be dead, alleviating the fears of residents along the haul route.\u00a0 The purpose of my letter today is to make sure that the man-and-wife team who really deserve credit get it.\u00a0 That couple is Jim and Valerie Gilhooly. I don\u2019t mean to ignore the efforts of the others who picked up the ball and ran hard with it, but Jim and Valerie Gilhooly have been working on this since 2007 when they were the lone voice of concern.\u00a0 Jim and Valerie were the spark.\u00a0 One of the things the community group brought up last night was their complaint that the community was not informed about what was happening.\u00a0 That is a matter of some debate, but what I can say is the reason they finally did find out was because one 72-year-old retired engineer and his fiery wife would not give up and they woke everyone up.\u00a0 Jim Gilhooly\u2019s name was only mentioned briefly, once, last night and Valerie\u2019s name did not come up.\u00a0 As I stood in the back, I felt this was a glaring omission.\u00a0 I was on the Peninsula Community Planning Board when this subject came up and I met Jim.\u00a0 He is an intelligent man with a great sense of humor and a strong personality and Valerie is his match.\u00a0 Everyone at that meeting last night owes Jim and Valerie a debt of gratitude because their efforts may have made everyone safer.\u00a0 The methane gas issue is not completely over and the community must keep up the pressure to see that they get what they want.\u00a0 I know Jim and Valerie Gilhooly will be doing that.\u00a0 My personal thanks to you both.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Last night [Sept. 9], I attended a special community meeting at the Hervey\/Point Loma Branch Library that was set up to discuss the plans of a private company to capture excess methane gas at the sewage treatment plant, compress it and haul it in large trucks down our residential streets and out of the community.\u00a0 […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11561","_seopress_titles_title":"Couple credited for effort to end gas-hauling plan","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11593,11552,11561,11550],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-images","category-opinion","category-peninsula-beacon","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}