[Sustain] URGENT ACTION! Demand CEC Reject New Coal Plant in California!

[Eric Brooks]

URGENT ACTION! Demand CEC Reject New Coal Plant in California!


Sierra Club
Sierra Club - Explore, enjoy and protect the planet


*Don't let a dirty coal plant get built in California! 
<http://action.sierraclub.org/site/R?i=DgBcpYMy-owCtxHYQNACPA>*

*Tell the CEC to turn down this dirty proposal. 
<http://action.sierraclub.org/site/R?i=wu64q4v5BQz0LzkUdisa1w>*

Don't let coal invade California 
<http://action.sierraclub.org/site/R?i=BVBCTiU6u5WYblABrIwCGg>
Send Your Letter 
<http://action.sierraclub.org/site/R?i=4QBC4AoH-C2Z2lqLpLpdLQ>

California has made great strides to wean itself off dirty coal.

Last year, Los Angeles announced it would be coal free. Other utilities 
are going coal free, too, and California is on pace to eliminate coal 
entirely over the next ten years. The efforts to ditch coal have 
ramifications for the country: as California goes, so goes the nation.

*Now, all that progress to move California beyond coal is at risk, as 
the California Energy Commission considers building a new coal power 
plant outside Bakersfield, a region with some of the dirtiest air in the 
country.*

*Email the California Energy Commission (CEC) now and urge them to 
reject this dangerous proposal. 
<http://action.sierraclub.org/site/R?i=XuSuRJRB9Y_zYvWYaUH2WA>*

This new coal plant would bring in coal from a strip mine in New Mexico 
by diesel train to Kern County. The coal would be trucked to the plant 
(300 trucks per day!) where it would be turned into gas to power the 
plant. The project would use unproven, risky technology to attempt to 
capture 90% of the CO2 and inject it into the ground in a neighboring 
oil field, helping push out the remaining oil from the depleted field 
(you have to love the irony of capturing carbon just so we can burn more).

*Even if the project only emits 10% of the CO2 produced, the project is 
so massive and coal-intensive, it would be one of the 60 largest sources 
of carbon pollution in the state! *

*Tell the CEC that dirty coal has no place in California's energy mix! 
<http://action.sierraclub.org/site/R?i=KjKULjUS0ajX_W4ES6lcmA>*

The coal industry is bending over backwards to call this a clean 
project, but the truth is anything but. The project would increase the 
dangerous pollutants that cause asthma, emphysema, and even heart 
attacks in a region that already can't come close to meeting the 
standards of the Clean Air Act.

The project has issues beyond just dirty air. It will suck up 2.4 
billion gallons of water each year, using water that would otherwise be 
used by local farmers.

*You can stop it. You can keep dirty coal out of California. Contact the 
CEC today. <http://action.sierraclub.org/site/R?i=NSN-bzV9F0t4vWnB8AzXJg>*

Thanks for all you do to protect the environment,

Evan Gillespie
My Generation Campaign
Sierra Club

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