[Sustain] Follow Up On Power Plant Alert - Public Comment Allowed On Tuesday

[Eric Brooks]

Hi again all,

One more crucial note on the alert below: These items are open for 
public comment at the full Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, because they 
will be on the 'adoption without committee reference' calendar. Everyone 
should turn out for this critical hearing - Tuesday, April 15, SF City 
Hall, Room 250. Public comment begins on or shortly after 3pm. The votes 
on the items will follow. (To see the meeting agenda go to: 
http://www.sfgov.org/site/bdsupvrs_page.asp?id=78792 )

previously I wrote:

**Call City Hall To Fight Global Warming & Stop Polluting Plants**

The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) is about to send 
the worst possible message to our entire planet in the throes of a dire 
climate crisis, by making San Francisco the only major city in the U.S. 
to build a new polluting fossil fuel power plant! The plant is known as 
the Combustion Turbine Project, and two resolutions to halt its 
construction will be voted on by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors 
this Tuesday, April 15th. (See 'What You Can Do' further below.)

A recently passed Community Choice renewable energy measure (which will 
bring San Francisco 50% solar and wind power within the next decade), 
and a new power transmission cable from the Northeast with enough 
capacity to meet half of San Francisco's daily electricity needs, make 
this polluting plant completely unnecessary. The SFPUC plans to site the 
Combustion Turbine plant in the already heavily polluted and 
economically marginalized Bayview Hunters Point district, which is 40% 
African American, and has high concentrations of other people of color 
and low income residents. (For more information see 
http://our-city.org/campaigns/index.html )

What You Can Do:

Contact Supervisors McGoldrick and Ammiano today and strongly urge them 
to support the two resolutions that will halt the Combustion Turbine 
Project, and insist on the creation of a new 21st century energy plan 
for San Francisco which will no longer depend on fossil fuel power plants.

Call:

Supervisor Jake McGoldrick  415-554-7410  and
Supervisor Tom Ammiano  415-554-5144

Sample Message To Stop The Power Plant:

"Please strongly support Supervisor Alioto-Pier's resolutions to demand 
independent studies of the Combustion Turbine Project and to create a 
new 2008 energy plan for San Francisco."

Thanks for your action and support!

Eric Brooks
Campaign Coordinator
Our City

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