With the Japanese nuclear power plant crisis being upper front in the news, we have a closer to home story to report about nuclear power plants and attorney’s fees.
As reported by Susan Luzzaro in a March 22, 2011 story in the San Diego Reader, the City of Chula Vista has been immersed in negotiations to assume responsibility for cleaning up water and soil pollution after the deconstruction of the South Bay Power Plant. Negotiations have been on a “bifurcated path” for several months. Despite Chula Vista’s own fiscal woes, a recent City staff support revealed to residents that the cost of outside attorney’s fees to conduct these power plant negotiations were–want to guess?–$221,814, characterized as “significant” in the staff report.
