Hi all,
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) is about to send
the worst possible message to our entire planet in the throes of a dire
climate crisis, by making San Francisco the only major city in the U.S.
to build a new polluting fossil fuel power plant! The plant is known as
the Combustion Turbine Project, and two resolutions to halt its
construction will be voted on by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors
this Tuesday, April 15th. (See 'What You Can Do' further below.)
A recently passed Community Choice renewable energy measure (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 Combustion Turbine 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
)
What You Can Do:
Contact Supervisors McGoldrick and Ammiano today and strongly urge them
to support the two resolutions that will halt the Combustion Turbine
Project, and insist on the creation of a new 21st century energy plan
for San Francisco which will no longer depend on fossil fuel power
plants.
Call:
Supervisor Jake McGoldrick 415-554-7410 and
Supervisor Tom Ammiano 415-554-5144
Sample Message To Stop The Power Plant:
"Please strongly support Supervisor Alioto-Pier's resolutions to demand
independent studies of the Combustion Turbine Project and to create a
new 2008 energy plan for San Francisco."
Thanks for your action and support!
Eric Brooks
Campaign Coordinator
Our City
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