[Sustain] Call City Hall To Save SF Clean Energy Project!

[Eric Brooks]

PHONE CALL-IN DAY ALERT

(Please forward this message to every San Franciscan you know who cares 
about ending the global climate crisis.)

Save San Francisco's Clean Energy Project!
Call Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi now!

This 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:

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."

(If you get a recording, or you are calling after business hours, just 
leave your comment as a voice mail message.)

THEN:

SHOW UP AND SPEAK AT THE HEARING:
FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 2PM, SF CITY HALL, ROOM 250

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).


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!

Eric Brooks
Co-Chair - SF Green Party Sustainability Working Group