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[Sustain] Call Mayor Newsom To Stop Fossil Fuel Plant In SF
by Eric Brooks 09 May '08

09 May '08

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(a)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] - end of sample message - 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 ////This alert sent by://// //Our City 1028-A Howard St. San Francisco, CA 94103 415-756-8844 For more information about Our City campaigns go to: http://www.our-city.org info(a)our-city.org <mailto:info@our-city.org> //

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[Sustain] Peaker Project Now Has Deep Economic/Environmental Flaw
by Eric Brooks 08 May '08

08 May '08

Hi all, With the May 5 hearing testimony on the new peaker proposal by the San Francisco Utilities Commission (SFPUC) staff, it has become clear that the new plan has a deep flaw in it, and if allowed to proceed, the SFPUC is going to get the City mired in a disastrous economic and environmental boondoggle. The plan totally fails to account for the fact that over the next ten years, the California energy landscape will so profoundly change due to new global warming regulations and spiking natural gas prices that the entire project will become financially impossible to maintain as written, and the inevitable result will be that the proposed plant will be allowed to run at maximum, leaving severe economic and environmental damage in its wake. Here's the problem: The SFPUC revealed that peakers must run at least 18 years in order to pay themselves off and will be contractually allowed as much as 30 years of operation if necessary to pay off those costs. The critical flaw in this model is that in 2016, after the Department of Water Resources is no longer required to purchase electricity capacity from the peakers, the City and County of San Francisco will be fully on the hook for the remaining $110 million cost of the project with no guarantees of power purchasers. PG&E, the biggest such potential customer, has already said no, largely due to a new state mandate for it to cut its production of new fossil fuel projects. Other potential customers will face the same environmental restrictions over the next two decades and will likely be unable to purchase our peaker capacity. This building environmental restriction on fossil fuel energy purchases will then combine like gasoline to a spark with the reality that natural gas production is about to peak (within the next decade) just as oil is peaking and skyrocketing in price now. This means that our ability to sell natural gas power capacity at a reasonable price will likely collapse, (driving potential gas energy customers even further away) and we will be forced to run the peakers full tilt, in what might well be a vain attempt, to sell enough hard power to meet even the 30 year contract deadline, and we will likely -still- not regain costs and will have to -amend- the contract to run the peakers well -past- 2040 and/or at higher than the 4000 hour per year limit to regain those costs. This -guarantees- that the peakers will pollute -far- more than the existing Mirant plant, which will certainly close within the next decade. This is because Mirant is no longer locked into -any- operation to regain costs and just 4 years from now we will have built hundreds of megawatts of renewables, efficiency and capacity both under the Community Choice renewable energy project and under new State and San Francisco climate change requirements; and because the then completed Transbay Cable project will bring us -another- 400 megawatts of capacity (enough to meet almost half of San Francisco's daily electricity needs). The alarming boondoggle scenario described above makes the peaker plants a -probable- economic and environmental disaster. It would be insanity to put ourselves in this massively risky future scenario just to avoid a few years of air and water pollution from Mirant; pollution that can be much more effectively avoided by canceling the peaker project and then devoting our full time and energy on closing down Mirant as soon as possible by replacing it with a carefully designed mix of renewables, efficiency and Transbay Cable capacity; and by redirecting the activist energies currently being wasted on the necessity of blocking the peaker project, into a full on high powered environmental and social justice campaign to demand the immediate closure of Mirant. peace, Eric

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[Sustain] Groundwater protection bill goes to governor
by Mato Ska 08 May '08

08 May '08

Groundwater protection bill goes to governor May 2008 U.S. Water News Online MONTPELIER, Vt. -- It's up to Gov. Jim Douglas now whether to sign into law a bill that would designate Vermont's groundwater aquifers a public trust like its lakes and rivers and require a state permit for large withdrawals of groundwater. The Vermont House has passed legislation that would require a permit for withdrawals of more than 40 gallons per minute, or 57,400 gallons per day. Backers of the legislation said the average Vermont family uses about 400 gallons a day. The public trust provision basically says groundwater is not owned by one person but by and for all Vermonters, and that the state must manage it as a public resource.

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[Sustain] FW: Water Amendment Version 4
by Mato Ska 08 May '08

08 May '08

This is a product of a request to propose an amendment with a shorter and more concise presentation. Mato SkaGP San Francisco From: m_zehr(a)hotmail.comTo: jellingston(a)greens.org; catalyst(a)actionpa.org; wrolley(a)charter.net; hunter(a)pjsnet.deSubject: Water Amendment Version 4Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 19:47:35 -0600 G. Water Water is essential to all forms of life. The Green Party calls for an international declaration that water belongs to the Earth and all of its species. Water is a basic human right! We face a worldwide water crisis. According to the United Nations, more than one billion people lack access to safe drinking water. If current trends persist, by 2025 as much as two-thirds of the world's population will be living with a serious scarcity of water. In impoverished nations with poor public water infrastructure, the rich will have plenty while the poor will be left with little but polluted water, and short term profits will preclude any concern for long term sustainability. We must oppose international efforts to privatize before the infrastructures become so established that it will be impossible to avoid a disaster of epic proportions. Current expenditures have done nothing to reassure the public regarding the depletion of groundwater and continue to minimize the real costs of research and development to assure adequate supply to regions. Large water users need to begin to be appropriately charged for withdrawals that lower the water table. Many high-tech mega-corporations do not contribute their fair share for the cost of the infrastructure and development needed to meet the delivery of the resource to local residents. Private companies, who sell bottled water, do so at the expense of the hydrological systems of the neighboring communities, and as such should be required to report annually to the local communities and be held responsible for such withdrawals to local municipalities. Urban planning decisions need to be based on a plan that integrates land use with water use. Political bodies, such as municipal water authorities, need to reflect more than the interests and concerns of real estate and development interests. We oppose private water banking because it prevents consistent bioregional public planning policies towards water withdrawals by private interests that seek to reallocate the resource where it is most profitable and avoid regional priorities for stakeholders, We support mandatory conservation requirements in urban areas, as needed, to assure the geological stability of aquifers and end aquifer depletions that are faster than their recharge. We support the recognition of the principle that all stakeholders should be included in water-planning processes.' We oppose disproportionate influence of major economic or political interests that will impact on others. We are opposed to the exploitation of another country’s natural resources, whether water, oil or gold without fair and just compensation and review of the extraction process by those impacted. We need strong national and international laws promote conservation, reclaim polluted water systems, develop water-supply restrictions, ban toxic and pesticide dumping, control or ban corporate farming, and bring the rule of law to transnational corporations that pollute water systems. Mining and depleting the present underground aquifers must be severely restricted. We encourage the use of wetlands, improving the utilization of updated technologies in treating water for pharmaceuticals and preventing the introduction of radionuclides and perchlorate into the surface and ground water. We support legislation that establishes and enforces standards beyond the Clean Water Act regarding the impacts of mining, quarrying and tunneling industry operations on available ground and surface waters and the regions impacted by the consequences of such mining operations. We encourage local municipal support for transitioning local economies away from high-tech industry, military bases and national laboratories that withdraw disproportionate amounts of water and pollute public waterways. We support the highest federal standards for the public water supply and federal funding support for water quality including for the local implementation of the arsenic standards. New forms of international, bioregional, and community organizations, watershed/ecosystem-based, must be created to monitor and equitably distribute the fresh water necessary for all life on our planet. Decisions about water must be based on an ecosystems approach. These decisions can be reached and considered appropriate when stakeholders themselves participate in the planning. Such planning processes, that are open and inclusive, need to be given the authority of their respective states to establish regional water plans, public welfare statements and defined water bugets using the science available and the demonstrated values held by stakeholders. We support the establishment of small, local water governmental entities to give local people control over the administration and management of their water. Water can only be managed in a sustainable fashion at the local level. The creation of such institutions would promote democracy and give people the opportunity to acknowledge and accept the responsibility all of us have to manage our water. Climate change is demonstrating the need to reorient our priorities in order to achieve a truly sustainable water policy. We must begin to understand and apply a holistic watershed approach to managing our water resources. The principle of bioregionalism (living within the means of a region's natural resources) should give direction to future water policies. We oppose the disproportional political influences of the mining, timber, real estate and development industries, and work to support family farms, open space, the protection of water quality in our rivers and the preservation of old growth forests. We uphold the water and land rights established under the Treaty of Guadelupe-Hidalgo and the sovereign claims of Native American nations, pueblos and tribes, as paramount to all other rights. Conservation must be a component of any water policy. Water conservation also reduces energy consumption and pollution. Conservation needs to be utilized to reduce regional water consumptive use and not to redirect “saved” water for “new” users. The question of determining the public policy for conservation should include whether or not to make conservation measures mandatory or voluntary and should be pro-rated based on amount of use.

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[Sustain] 20 Orgs Demand Halt To SF Power Plant - May 5, '08
by Eric Brooks 05 May '08

05 May '08

For Release: Monday, May 5, 2008 attachments: PDF of Release; PDF of Anti-Plant Letter To City Hall Contact: Eric Brooks 415-756-8844 Marie Harrison 415-720-3139 20 Environmental & Social Justice Organizations, Public Officials Demand Halt To Polluting Power Plant Project Groups call upon the city to come up with a green alternative San Francisco, CA, May 5, 2008 - Today, a coalition of twenty environmental, civic, and social justice organizations along with state and local elected leaders, called upon the Board of Supervisors and the Mayor to halt the plan to build a natural gas power plant project in San Francisco. The group cited problems with pollution, environmental justice, and global warming. The group rallied in front of City Hall before an upcoming Board of Supervisors Government Audit and Oversight Committee vote on a contract to build and operate three natural gas turbines in Bayview-Hunters Point, the most environmentally impacted neighborhood in the city, and a fourth natural gas turbine at the San Francisco Airport. The Committee is set to also take up legislation by Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier, which would require environmental and economic studies of the plant proposal and would seek clean-energy alternatives. Groups at the rally called upon the Committee to support Alioto-Pier?s legislation and vote down the contract. Advocates and elected officials called upon the Mayor and the Board of Supervisors to create a new energy reliability plan that takes into account recent increases in solar power, conservation, and transmission capacity, and which doesn't contribute to global warming and air pollution. Ian Kim, Green-Collar Jobs Campaigns Director of Ella Baker Center for Human Rights said "Building fossil fuel power plants in Southeast San Francisco limits the city's ability to invest in renewable energy and efficiency strategies that would increase green-collar job opportunities for San Francisco." "The designs for this polluting power plant project, and the outdated energy plan that goes with it, were developed seven years ago," said Alioto-Pier. "Since then we've installed more renewable energy and efficiency projects. At a time when global warming is getting worse, we need to scrap this fossil fuel project and develop a 2008 energy action plan for San Francisco that will lead the world to a clean energy future." "The current strategy is still excessively fossil fuel driven. Why can't that be supplemented by renewables?" said Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi in recent hearings. "I'm still not sold on the idea that we need the peakers at all." State Senator Carole Migden authored the 2002 Community Choice energy legislation that allows California cities to purchase renewable energy and build their own renewable power facilities. "The time of fossil fuel is over. The people want 100% clean energy now and shutting down the Mirant Plant for another fossil fuel burning plant just makes no sense. This neighborhood has suffered under the toxic air of the current plant, San Francisco needs to stand together and build something that is renewable and clean for the families of the Bay View and Potrero Hill." John Rizzo of the Sierra Club said "At a time when the governor is adding resources to fight global warming, San Francisco is putting $250 million to contribute to global warming." Marie Harrison of Greenaction said "This power plant project would not even be on the table if it had been proposed for any other community in the city. Asthma and cancer rates in the Bayview-Hunters Point are some of the highest in the nation. We will not stand for any more of this." Eric Brooks with San Francisco Green Party added "The city claims this will benefit the Bayview-Hunters Point Community. A plant that must pay for itself by burning fossil fuel for eighteen years, is not a benefit to any community." Endorsing Organizations Ella Baker Center For Human Rights Sierra Club Greenaction For Health And Environmental Justice SPUR (San Francisco Planning And Urban Research Association) Global Exchange Green For All Environmental Defense The San Francisco Green Party The San Francisco Bayview Newspaper Huntersview Mothers Committee For Health And Environmental Justice Women?s Energy Matters Latino Issues Forum Center On Race, Poverty And The Environment Greenwood Earth Alliance Environmental Justice Air Quality Coalition Defend Bayview-Hunters Point Idriss Stelley Foundation The San Francisco Green Party Sustainability Working Group Our City Brightline Defense Project ###

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[Sustain] Reminder: Rally To Stop Polluting Power Plants! Tomorrow Mon, May 5, 9-10am, SF City Hall (Polk St. Steps)
by Eric Brooks 04 May '08

04 May '08

Eric Brooks <brookse32(a)aim.com> wrote: This is an urgent moment in San Francisco and world history. Though nearly every major environmental and social justice group has voiced strong opposition to the building of new fossil fuel power plants in San Francisco; tomorrow, Monday, May 5th, our Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) will outrageously seek permission to build a polluting natural gas power plant in San Francisco within the next year. Worse still, if approved, this plant will be built in our most environmentally damaged and vulnerable neighborhood, the Bayview Hunters Point. Meanwhile, new reports surface nearly every week that the Global Warming crisis is becoming much more serious, much more rapidly than previously believed, and our entire planet is in danger. Unfortunately, Mayor Gavin Newsom and our Board of Supervisors are wavering, and have still not come out in majority opposition to this disastrous power plant! This means that the plant construction could be approved as early as this week. It is absolutely critical that we turn out in huge numbers on the City Hall Polk Street steps tomorrow, Monday May 5, from 9-10am, to show the Mayor and Board of Supervisors that San Franciscans will not tolerate further inaction, and that we demand that this unacceptable power plant project be stopped immediately. We must send a message to the world that San Francisco has decided to lead the planet into a clean energy future by permanently halting all plans to build fossil fuel power plants. COME TO THE RALLY! WHERE: San Francisco City Hall, Polk Street steps, (from Civic Center BART/MUNI at 8th and Market, cross United Nations Plaza to the City Hall steps) WHEN: Monday, May 5, 9-10am WHO: Join Our City, Sierra Club, The Ella Baker Center For Human Rights, Greenaction, The San Francisco Green Party, Brightline Defense, EDF, SPUR, The San Francisco Bayview, and many other groups, to demand an end to fossil fuel plants in San Francisco. BRING SIGNS!: If you can take a moment, also make your own sign that expresses how you feel about this alarming power plant project and its potentially terrible impact on our community and the world. BRING FRIENDS!: Bring everyone you know who cares about the future of San Francisco and the planet! ATTEND THE HEARING: Directly following the rally, The Government Audit and Oversight committee will meet in City Hall Room 250, to discuss and vote on the power plant contract. Attend this hearing and voice your opinion to the Board of Supervisors. SPREAD THE WORD: Forward this email far and wide! For more information, see http://our-city.org/campaigns/index.html Thanks for your action and support! Eric Brooks Campaign Coordinator Our City ////This alert sent by://// //Our City 1028-A Howard St. San Francisco, CA 94103 415-756-8844 For more information about Our City campaigns go to: http://www.our-city.org info(a)our-city.org <mailto:info@our-city.org>// -- "I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves." -- Che Guevara

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[Sustain] Polluting Plant Hearing Confirmed! Monday May 5, City Hall, Room 250, 10am!
by Eric Brooks 02 May '08

02 May '08

Ok all, This is it! This is THE big one. The hearing for -all- legislation, both ordinances opposing, and contracts establishing, the polluting Bayview Combustion Turbine project, will be heard right after our City Hall rally this Monday morning. The hearing will be in City Hall room 250 (the 'big' room - they KNOW we're coming y'all!). Let's pour into the hearing room after that rally and -demand- a halt to the power plant project! This will be our last chance to be heard before the final Board of Supervisors vote on the power plant. The committee will be the Government Audits and Oversight Committee. Our items begin at item 6, but the matters preceding it are mostly pro-forma and not expected to take long. Here are the hearing details: http://www.sfgov.org/site/bdsupvrs_page.asp?id=29787 *City and County of San Francisco* *Government Audit and Oversight Committee* */City Hall, Room 250/* *_Meeting Agenda _Monday, May 5, 2008 10:00 AM Regular Meeting* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ */Members: Aaron Peskin, Tom Ammiano, Sophie Maxwell Clerk: Annette Lonich (415) 554-7706/* *1.* *080404* *[Appropriating $593,490,962 of proceeds from the sale of bonds for capital improvement projects at the San Francisco International Airport for Fiscal Year 2007-2008]* *Mayor, Supervisor Chu* Ordinance appropriating $593,490,962 of proceeds from the sale of bonds for capital improvement projects at the San Francisco International Airport for Fiscal Year 2007-2008. Place total appropriation of $593,490,962 on Controller's Reserve pending sale of the bonds. (Fiscal Impact.) 3/25/08, RECEIVED AND ASSIGNED to Government Audit and Oversight Committee. *2.* *080590* *[Airport Capital Plan Bonds - not to exceed $718,000,000]* *Supervisor Chu* Resolution approving the issuance of not to exceed $718,000,000 aggregate principal amount of San Francisco International Airport Second Series Revenue Bonds for the purpose of financing and refinancing the construction, acquisition, equipping and development of capital projects undertaken by the Airport constituting part of the Airport's capital plan. 4/29/08, RECEIVED AND ASSIGNED to Government Audit and Oversight Committee. *3.* *080569* *[Memorandum of Agreement between the Treasure Island Development Authority and the San Francisco County Transportation Authority relating to Yerba Buena Island Ramps]* *Mayor* Resolution authorizing a Memorandum of Agreement between the Treasure Island Development Authority and the San Francisco County Transportation Authority for project management services and consultant services for the preparation of a Project Report and Environmental Document for the Yerba Buena Island Ramps in an amount not to exceed $3,000,000. 4/22/08, RECEIVED AND ASSIGNED to Government Audit and Oversight Committee. *4.* *080325* *[Contract between the Department of Health and the California Department of Health Care Services for the Health Care Coverage Initiative in the amount of $73.1 million over a three-year period in support of the Healthy San Francisco program]* *Mayor* Resolution authorizing the Director of Health to enter into a contract with the California Department of Health Care Services to provide reimbursement for health services costs incurred in providing services to specified Healthy San Francisco participants under the Health Care Coverage Initiative in the amount of $73.1 million. 3/4/08, RECEIVED AND ASSIGNED to Government Audit and Oversight Committee. *5.* *080403* *[San Francisco children and youth needing residential treatment]* *Supervisors Maxwell, Chu* Hearing on the status and future plans for agency coordination for San Francisco children and youth needing residential treatment placed through probation, behavioral health, and child welfare. 3/25/08, RECEIVED AND ASSIGNED to Government Audit and Oversight Committee. Sponsor requests that the item be heard at the April 21, 2008 Government Audit and Oversight Committee meeting. 3/28/08 Sent Referral letter to the Youth Commission. *6.* *080447* *[Adopting the State of California's Energy Priorities]* *Supervisor Alioto-Pier* Resolution adopting the State of California's Energy Priorities as stated in the Energy Action Plan of 2003 and Energy Action Plan II of 2005 which are, in the following order, energy efficiency and demand response, renewable energy and lastly clean fossil generation. 4/1/08, RECEIVED AND ASSIGNED to Land Use and Economic Development Committee. 4/17/08, TRANSFERRED to Government Audit and Oversight Committee. *7.* *080491* *[Supporting an independent analysis of the SFPUC's proposed "Combustion Turbine Peaker Project"]* *Supervisor Alioto-Pier* Resolution supporting a request for an independent analysis of the SFPUC's proposed "Combustion Turbine Peaker Project" to update the Cal-ISO/SFPUC 2004 Action Plan for San Francisco to a 2008 Action Plan that will include the 400 Megawatts provided by Transbay Cable, improvements in renewable energy technologies, municipal solar projects, transmission and reconductering upgrades and demand response. 4/8/08, REFERRED FOR ADOPTION WITHOUT COMMITTEE REFERENCE AGENDA AT THE NEXT BOARD MEETING. 4/15/08, REFERRED to Land Use and Economic Development Committee. Supervisor Maxwell requested that this matter be severed so that it might be considered. 4/21/08, TRANSFERRED to Government Audit and Oversight Committee. *8.* *080496* *[Supporting a fiscal feasibility study of the SFPUC's proposed "Combustion Turbine Peaker Project"]* *Supervisor Alioto-Pier* Resolution supporting a fiscal feasibility study of the SFPUC's proposed "Combustion Turbine Peaker Project" as required under Section 29.1(c)(4) of the Administrative Code. 4/8/08, REFERRED FOR ADOPTION WITHOUT COMMITTEE REFERENCE AGENDA AT THE NEXT BOARD MEETING. 4/15/08, REFERRED to Land Use and Economic Development Committee. Supervisor Maxwell requested that this matter be severed so that it might be considered. 4/21/08, TRANSFERRED to Government Audit and Oversight Committee. *9.* *080524* *[Authorizing the execution and delivery of certificates of participation to finance the San Francisco Combustion Turbine Projects and approving property leases, project leases and a trust agreement in connection therewith]* *Supervisors Maxwell, Dufty, McGoldrick* Resolution authorizing the execution and delivery of certificates of participation to finance the acquisition, construction, installation and equipping of natural gas-fired combustion turbine generation facilities on City-owned property located at 25th and Maryland Street in the Potrero neighborhood and at the San Francisco International Airport at the corner of North Access Road and Clearwater Drive; approving the form of a trust agreement between the City and County of San Francisco and a trustee (including certain indemnities contained therein); authorizing the selection of a trustee; approving the forms of property leases between the City and the trustee relating to the Potrero site and to the San Francisco International Airport site; approving the forms of project leases between the trustee and the City (including certain indemnities contained therein) relating to each of the two Projects; approving the form of a Memorandum of Understanding between the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and the City; approving the form of an official notice of sale and notice of intention to sell for the certificates of participation; approving the form of an official statement in preliminary and final form; approving the form of a continuing disclosure certificate; and ratifying previous actions taken in connection therewith. 4/15/08, RECEIVED AND ASSIGNED to Government Audit and Oversight Committee. *10.* *080523* *[Approving agreements for the development of the City Combustion Turbine Projects at San Francisco International Airport and at 25th and Maryland Streets and adopting environmental findings]* *Supervisors Maxwell, Dufty, McGoldrick* Ordinance approving agreements necessary for the development of the City Combustion Turbine Projects to be located at North Access Road and Clearwater Drive, San Francisco International Airport, and at Property Adjacent to the MTA Metro East Facility at 25th and Maryland Streets in San Francisco, including a design-build agreement, a power purchase agreement, a turbine upgrade agreement, electric and gas interconnection agreements and granting specified waivers; and approving a jurisdictional transfer of property and a lease modification to accommodate the proposed projects, subject to further agreements among the affected City departments; and making environmental findings and findings of consistency with the General Plan and the Priority Policies of Planning Code Section 101.1. (Fiscal Impact.) 4/15/08, RECEIVED AND ASSIGNED to Government Audit and Oversight Committee. April 18, 2008 - Sent to Planning for environmental review. *11.* *080592* *[Appropriating $273,015,000 of COP Revenue for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Electrical Reliability Power project for Fiscal Year 2007-08]* *Supervisor Maxwell* Ordinance appropriating $273,015,000 of San Francisco Certificates of Participation 2008 Series B and 2008 Series C to fund the San Francisco Electrical Reliability Project also referred to as the Combustion Turbine projects in the Public Utilities Commission for FY 2007-08. 4/29/08, RECEIVED AND ASSIGNED to Government Audit and Oversight Committee. -- "I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves." -- Che Guevara

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[Sustain] Very Important: All: Need 2 More Oks Ok For Anti-Power Plant Rally Sponsorship
by Eric Brooks 30 Apr '08

30 Apr '08

I need two more thumbs up for SFGP to be able to be listed as a rally sponsor on the anti-power plant action alerted below. So far I have me, Marc, Vicki, Paul Platt, Chin Chi and Pat Gerber step up peace Eric Hi all, On Monday, May 5th there will be a big rally to oppose the construction of a new polluting natural gas Combustion Turbine power plant in the Bayview Hunters Point. This is the same combustion turbine plant that the General Membership decided officially to oppose a few months ago. The plant contract will be before the Government Audits and Oversight Committee on May 5th, so this is our final chance to turn out big opposition to the plant. See the attached letter opposing the plant for the basic message. I've signed my name on behalf of the Party because the letter is very consistent with our previous decision as a whole, and I've been the lead spokesperson in hearings on the issue. Please give thumbs ups right away so that we can also make SFGP an official sponsor of the rally. thanks peace Eric -- "I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves." – Che Guevara

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[Sustain] Article from Common Dreams NewsCenter
by Don EIchelberger 29 Apr '08

29 Apr '08

Hello, Don EIchelberger wanted to share this article with you: http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/25/8522/ Message: More on peak oil. Word is getting out. Thanks! ______________________________________ Common Dreams Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community www.commondreams.org ________________________________________________________ Referral service by ReferralBlast.com

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Re: [Sustain] [SFGP-A] Join Vital Rally To Stop Polluting Power Plants In SF! Next Mon, May 5, 9-10am, SF City Hall (Polk St. Steps)
by pamndave＠speakeasy.net 29 Apr '08

29 Apr '08

I second Rita's remarks. Eric: Thank you for being out there on the front lines & for alerting the rest of us to what's important. David On Mon Apr 28 14:29 , Rita Goldberger sent: >Hi Eric, This email prompted me to tell you what I've been thinking some time, which is to thank you for keeping us current with San Francisco political activity. I am so busy with my work and church that I don't often have time to attend these events, but I am so grateful that you, and a handful of others, keep us posted. We're going to start building an infrastructure in the Sunset to respond to this kind of activity, and we will depend on you, and others like you, to warn us when we need to activate it. Rita Goldberger Rita Goldberger > >Eric Brooks <brookse32(a)aim.com> wrote: Hi all, > >This is an urgent moment in San Francisco and > world history. > >Though nearly every major environmental and social justice group has voiced strong opposition to the building of new fossil fuel power plants in San Francisco, next Monday, May 5th, our Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) will outrageously seek permission to build a polluting natural gas power plant in San Francisco within the next year. Worse still, if approved, this plant will be built in our most environmentally damaged and vulnerable neighborhood, the Bayview Hunters Point. Meanwhile, new reports surface nearly every week that the Global Warming crisis is becoming much more serious, much more rapidly than previously believed, and our entire planet is in danger. > >Unfortunately, Mayor Gavin Newsom and our Board of Supervisors are wavering, and have still not come out in majority opposition to this disastrous power plant! This means that the plant construction could be approved as early as next week. > >It is absolutely critical that we > turn out in huge numbers on the City Hall Polk Street steps next Monday May 5, from 9-10am, to show the Mayor and Board of Supervisors that San Franciscans will not tolerate further inaction, and that we demand that this unacceptable power plant project be stopped immediately. We must send a message to the world that San Francisco has decided to lead the planet to a clean energy future by permanently halting all plans to build fossil fuel power plants. > >COME TO THE RALLY! > >WHERE: San Francisco City Hall, Polk Street steps, (from Civic Center BART/MUNI at 8th and Market, cross United Nations Plaza to the City Hall steps) > >WHEN: Monday, May 5, 9-10am > >WHO: Join Our City, Sierra Club, The Ella Baker Center For Human Rights, Greenaction, The San Francisco Green Party, Brightline Defense, EDF, SPUR, The San Francisco Bayview, and many other groups, to demand an end to fossil fuel plants in San Francisco. > >BRING SIGNS!: If you can take a moment, > also make your own sign that expresses how you feel about this alarming power plant project and its potentially terrible impact on our community and the world. > >BRING FRIENDS!: Bring everyone you know who cares about the future of San Francisco and the planet! > >ATTEND THE HEARING: Directly following the rally, a City Hall committee will likely vote on the power plant contract. Join other ralliers to attend this hearing and voice your opinion to the Board of Supervisors. (The hearing location and agenda will be announced at the end of the rally.) > >For more information, see http://our-city.org/campaigns/index.html > >Thanks for your action and support! > >Eric Brooks >Campaign Coordinator >Our City >This alert sent by: Our City 1028-A Howard St. San Francisco, CA 94103 415-756-8844 For more information about > Our City campaigns go to: http://www.our-city.org info@our- city.org >-- "I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves." Che Guevara_______________________________________________ >San Francisco Green Party Active Members List >To unsubscribe or edit your options, go here: >https://list.sfgreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/active >

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