[Sustain] Call Mayor Newsom To Stop Fossil Fuel Plant In SF

[Eric Brooks]

Hi all,

This is a critical moment in the fight to stop global warming.

Call Mayor Newsom Today To Stop A Fossil Fuel Power Plant From Being 
Built In San Francisco

This Tuesday, May 13, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors will vote 
on a deeply misguided plan to build a polluting natural gas power plant 
in the City of San Francisco and allow it to spew pollution and CO2 for 
the next 18-30 years! But the Board is wavering and might not vote down 
this terrible proposal.

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

Mayor Newsom is in New York City this week, attending an environmental 
'Green Cities' conference, and will return Saturday to San Francisco. 
The Board of Supervisors is so closely divided on the power plant vote 
that Mayor Newsom could tip the scales and stop the plant by taking a 
strong public stand against it on Tuesday morning.

Call Mayor Newsom's Office of Neighborhood Services today at:
415-554-7111
(if you get voice mail, simply leave your recorded remarks - if you have 
trouble reaching the number above, just call the San Francisco 311 line 
and ask to leave a public comment for the Mayor)

Leave him the following message:

"Mayor Newsom, please be a global environmental champion and declare to 
the world that San Francisco will no longer burn fossil fuel for 
electricity, that you oppose the combustion turbine peaker project, and 
that you will establish a plan to close the existing Mirant power plant 
by relying only on renewable energy, efficiency, and the Transbay Cable."

Let's flood the Mayor's office and voice mail box with -thousands- of 
comments so that he knows exactly what to do on Tuesday to make San 
Francisco a Green City!

AND: Email the Board of Supervisors

Once you have called the Mayor, take one more moment to send the 
following email message to the Board of Supervisors at:
board.of.supervisors at sfgov.org

Dear Supervisor,

Please be a global environmental champion and vote 'NO' on the ICC 
combustion turbine peaker project. Then call for a 2008 Energy Action 
Plan to close the existing Mirant power plant by relying only on 
renewable energy, efficiency, and the Transbay Cable.

Thank You!

[your name and address here]

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Further Background:

The recently passed Community Choice renewable energy project (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 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 )

Thanks for your action and support!

Eric Brooks
Campaign Coordinator
Our City

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