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@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@our-city.org <mailto:info@our-city.org> //