From Mother to Martyr…

Remembering Marie Harrison on the Anniversary of her “Very Last Breath!”

Marie Harrison was a member of the Huntersview Mother’s Committee on May 15, 2006 when the turbines of the 70 year old PG&E Hunters Point Power Plant — located at 1000 Evans Avenue at the base of the Hunters Point hilltop -shut down…for good! Ten days after putting into service the Jefferson Martin Transmission Line, Pacific Gas and Electric Company kept the promise it made in 1998 to shutter the delapidated natural gas fired plant after replacing the 400 megawatts of backup power the power plant supplied.

Southeast San Francisco Circa 2006. In addition to the PG&E Power Plant that exploded in 2000 and discharged billowing stacks of toxic air contaminants, Bayview Hunters Point sites a federal Superfund site, a sewerage treatment plant, toxic waste sites and polluting industries and is burdened by excess construction dust and airborne emissions from highways and major freeways.

What began as a tight knit group of “mothers turned environmentalists,” mushroomed over 25 years to become a mighty coalition drawing consensus support across a broad spectrum of community leaders, environmental activists and scientists, health and legal experts, regulators, politicians and elected officials at all levels of government.

Huntersview Mother’s Committee “Showdown” at the PG&E Power Plant

PG&E Hunters Point Power Plant circa 2007…Now you see it!