Hi all, If you had any doubt about whether to gather your time and energy and call Ross Mirkarimi's office and then get to the City Hall LAFCo hearing at 2pm March 6 for its critical vote on Clean Power SF, just take a look at the Sunday front page SF Examiner story on PG&E CEO Peter Darbee at http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/PGEs-Peter-Darbee-is-brimming-with-energy-40... I would strongly recommend going to http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/digitaleditions.aspx?tab=0&pid=2... and clicking on the icon for the Sunday edition in the lower right of the page so that you can see the article the way actual readers of the Examiner saw it on paper, in order to grasp the article's strong visual impact. This article is extremely well done and extremely damaging to us. And there will be more assaults like it. We absolutely -must- get the LAFCo to launch Clean Power SF properly with a lead RFP contractor this Friday. Every day we wait, gives PG&E yet another day to launch torpedoes like this at the clean energy movement. Every day we have to waste organizing to get our 'allies' on the LAFCo to take action, is a day that we cannot gear up a strong public education campaign to reveal PG&E's lies and show how awesome Clean Power SF will be. We must act now. Here are the call-in and hearing details: ALERT! Save San Francisco's Clean Energy Project! Attend Emergency Hearing Friday, March 6, 2pm SF City Hall, Room 250 Next 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: 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). IF YOU CAN'T ATTEND THE HEARING: 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." 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 as always for your help 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