[Sustain] Extremely Damaging: SF Examiner: PG&E As Renewable Champion

[Eric Brooks]

Hi all,

If you had any doubt about whether to gather your time and energy and 
call Ross Mirkarimi's office and then get to the City Hall LAFCo hearing 
at 2pm March 6 for its critical vote on Clean Power SF, just take a look 
at the Sunday front page SF Examiner story on PG&E CEO Peter Darbee at 
http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/PGEs-Peter-Darbee-is-brimming-with-energy-40457962.html

I would strongly recommend going to 
http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/digitaleditions.aspx?tab=0&pid=257354b0-046b-467e-a9b1-eb5774c92eb3#
and clicking on the icon for the Sunday edition in the lower right of 
the page so that you can see the article the way actual readers of the 
Examiner saw it on paper, in order to grasp the article's strong visual 
impact.

This article is extremely well done and extremely damaging to us. And 
there will be more assaults like it.

We absolutely -must- get the LAFCo to launch Clean Power SF properly 
with a lead RFP contractor this Friday. Every day we wait, gives PG&E 
yet another day to launch torpedoes like this at the clean energy movement.

Every day we have to waste organizing to get our 'allies' on the LAFCo 
to take action, is a day that we cannot gear up a strong public 
education campaign to reveal PG&E's lies and show how awesome Clean 
Power SF will be.

We must act now.

Here are the call-in and hearing details:


ALERT!

Save San Francisco's Clean Energy Project!

Attend Emergency Hearing
Friday, March 6,  2pm
SF City Hall, Room 250

Next Friday, March 6th, the San Francisco Local Agency Formation
Commission (LAFCo) will vote on activating the Clean Power SF renewable
energy project, which was passed in 2007 to give the City 50% clean
electricity within the next decade.

But alarmingly, the LAFCo is poised to let the San Francisco Public
Utilities Commission (SFPUC) delay and weaken the project, thereby
killing large scale clean energy in San Francisco. We must demand that
the LAFCo vote a strong Clean Power SF project forward immediately.


WHAT YOU CAN DO:

Attend the hearing, and speak at public comment, to insist that Clean
Power SF move forward now!

DIRECTIONS:

To get to the hearing, go to the San Francisco Civic Center transit
station at 8th and Market Streets and cross United Nations Plaza to City
Hall (on Polk Street between Grove and McAllister).


IF YOU CAN'T ATTEND THE HEARING:

Call LAFCo chairperson Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi today at 415-554-7630
with the following message:

"Please stop accepting the SFPUC's delays, and immediately hire, through
the LAFCo, the best qualified lead contractor to rapidly complete a
Request For Proposals for Clean Power SF."


PUBLIC COMMENT TALKING POINTS:

- The SFPUC has been delaying Clean Power SF for five years! Enough is
enough!

- Access to Obama administration clean energy stimulus funds could be
lost if we don't act now!

- There are new reports every day that the global climate crisis is
becoming far worse, far more rapidly than scientists previously
believed. We cannot wait one more day to begin this project!

- Clean Power SF will become the largest municipal clean energy project
on Earth, setting a strong example for the rest of the world to get
serious about the climate crisis!

- 48 other California communities are waiting for San Francisco to take
the lead on clean energy, and as California goes, so goes the world.
Starting this project now is critical to leading the entire planet to
take rapid action to end the climate crisis!

- During the current drastic economic crisis and budget cuts, Clean
Power SF will create a green economy boom in San Francisco providing
hundreds of desperately need jobs to this community!


For more information about Clean Power SF see
http://our-city.org/campaigns/CleanPowerSF_e.html


Thanks as always for your help and support.

Eric Brooks
Campaign Coordinator
Our City

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