The SAGE Alliance is sponsoring a creative, fun action coming up on Sat. September 8th that we want you to know about. People are gathering that day in a flotilla on the Connecticut River and the shore across from the Vermont Yankee Nulcear Reactor – which continues to put overheated and radioactive water into the river.
More details at: http://sagealliance.net/action…
Continue reading Flotilla & Rally September 8th at VT Yankee
Tuesday, April 12 · 2:00pm – 5:00pm
2400 JFK Federal Building
15 New Sudbury St.
Boston, MA
Called by Beyond Coal Massachusetts
Take 30 minutes of your time and bring a handwritten note in support of clean air to drop by Senator Brown’s office. We will be greeting people outside his office form 2-5:00 PM on Tuesday, April 12th before you go upstairs to Senator Brown’s office to let him know Massachusetts wants him to vote for clean air.
You will meet volunteers outside before going through security inside and ultimately upstairs to the Senator’s office. We strongly recommend you bring a handwritten letter in support of clean air initiatives. Ideas for letters and clean air facts can be found at www.sierraclub.org/coal/ma
Continue reading Drop by Senator Brown’s OfficeContact Gov. Patrick and/or protest & attend State House nuke hearing , Wednesday, April 6 at 2pm. Gardner Auditorium
Governor Patrick met with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Wednesday March 30th. This is a key moment to call for more oversight and protection in the wake of the nuclear disaster in Japan. Call Governor Patrick at 617.725.4005 and urge his leadership to improve public health and safety protections at the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, MA and in MA towns near the border of VT. Yankee.
Specific Issues:
· IMPROVE WASTE STORAGE: Get the spent fuel pools back to original low density design and the rest in hardened, dispersed dry casks on site until an off-site solution becomes available
· EXPAND EMERGENCY PLANNING ZONES to 50 miles –
· DENY LICENSE EXTENSION: Do not allow Pilgrim’s or VT. Yankee additional 20 years of operation until lessons from Fukushima have been learned and appropriate fixes decided upon and put in place.
Continue reading Protest or attend State House nuke hearing Tuesday, April 6Sporting large, brown ‘oily hands,’ and carrying signs reading “Fight Climate Change Now,” a dedicated group of climate activists spent nearly two hours ‘shadowing’ US Senator Scott Brown at fundraising events in Boston on Wednesday evening.
Four groups were involved in planning and carrying out the shadow event: 1Sky, 350.org, the Global Warming Education Network, and Paint Brown Green. Supporters of the groups first gathered outside of a fundraiser for MA treasurer candidate Karyn Polito, held at the Liberty Hotel, a former prison in Boston. Among other taunts, three of the activists chanted, “Climate change victims, hear them wail; climate change deniers belong in jail!” Senator Brown was not seen entering or leaving the event.
After 45 minutes of demonstrating outside the first fundraiser, the protesters marched past the offices of both US senators Kerry and Brown on their way to a second fundraiser, held for Brad Marston, republican candidate for US Congress, held at the Kinsale restaurant, on Cambridge Street in Boston. Commenting on Boston’s weird recent weather, the activists chanted, “Six weeks of drought, then four inches of rain; how do you like your climate change?”
Then, just as the demonstrators were told that “security had been notified,” the impossible happened: Senator Brown approached the restaurant on foot. Seeing her chance, activist Susan Shamel immediately went to the senator’s side to voice her request for strong US climate legislation. Shamel and Brown spoke for nearly a minute before the senator waved to the other
activists and disappeared inside.
“He was supportive of my request for legislation, but blamed democrats for not bringing appropriate legislation to the senate for a vote,” said Shamel. “He also said that he could not support a tax on energy,” she went on. “I told him that revenues collected could be returned to the taxpayers, but he was skeptical of this approach,” Shamel said.
Continue reading Climate Activists’ Senator Brown Shadowing Event Huge Success in BostonSpread the word!! Save the trees! Protect the biosphere!
Thursday, August 5,4pm. Protest the Biomess! (that rhymes) At the Biomess industry conference. Meet in front of the Westin Copley Place hotel at the corner of Dartmouth and St. James in Boston (near Copley Plaza) at 4pm.
Contact: stephaniesanch@gmail.com/ 203-536-2050 cell ph
Continue reading Thursday, August 5, 4pm. Protest the Biomess!
The Stop Spewing Carbon Ballot Campaign announced today a major victory in the fight against biomass incinerators promoted as “clean energy” and as a result will not put its question on the statewide ballot for November 2010.
“Today Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs Ian Bowles issued a letter* saying his agency will change our state laws to bring them in line with current science and public policy requiring biomass incinerators to meet strict standards for forest protection, greenhouse gas emissions, and efficiency,” said Meg Sheehan, Chair of the Stop Spewing Carbon Ballot Campaign. “This is a groundbreaking development that means an end to commercial biomass electric power plants in Massachusetts. Science confirms that the greenhouse gas emissions of burning forests are worse than
coal and there’s no reason to subsidize this form of energy,” Sheehan said.
Secretary Bowles’ letter says that to meet greenhouse targets the state should change “the incentives we provide biomass energy under the Renewable Portfolio Standard.” The Stop Spewing Campaign collected over 120,000 signatures from Massachusetts’ voters to end biomass subsidies. Sheehan said, “this sent a clear message to Governor Patrick. Ending renewable energy credits for dirty incinerators was the central goal of our ballot question and we have won.” The state also announced that construction and
demolition debris incinerators will not get renewable energy credits, another victory for the Campaign.
“Our coalition of social justice, public health, environmental, forestry advocates and fiscal watchdogs have won a victory for the citizens of Massachusetts, the nation, and indeed the planet,” Sheehan said. “Citizens have let government officials know they don’t want their taxpayer and ratepayer money spent on these toxic incinerators disguised as “clean energy.”
“We will continue to work to prevent air pollution impacts from potential smaller biomass projects and for a state wide ban on construction and demolition debris burning. We also intend to pressure the administration to tighten the biomass regulations even further than what was put forth today to prevent all destructive bio-energy schemes and false solutions to climate change. We will *want to make sure that so called “clean energy” projects don’t pollute the air, the water, and destroy our forests,” said Sheehan.
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Contact: Meg Sheehan,Chair,Stop Spewing Carbon Campaign tel. 508-259-9154
meg(at)ecolaw(dot) biz Go to: www.stopspewingcarbon.org
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* Bowles’ letter below:
CONTACTS: Michaelann Bewsee, 413-734-4948 or 413-455-3829 and Meg
Sheehan, 508-259-9154
PRESS CONFERENCE: Wednesday June 9, 4:40 p.m., informational session
4:15 to 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Springfield, MA, Pynchon Park on the corner of State and Chestnut Streets, next to the main branch of the Springfield Library
immediately prior to the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection’s hearing on the Global Warming Solutions Act.
WHO: Stop Toxic Incineration In Springfield, Arise for Social Justice, Concerned Citizens of Russell, The Enviro Show, Stop Spewing
Carbon Campaign, Massachusetts Forest Watch, Pioneer Valley Preservation Coalition, Concerned Citizens of Franklin County, Students for a Just and Stable Society and McKnight Neighborhood
Council in Springfield.
A coalition of health, social justice, and environmental groups is letting the state and federal governments know that biomass
incinerators are not a climate change solution but make are a public health and climate disaster and the state should not be promoting them.
“Giving taxpayer and ratepayer subsidies to incinerators that burn trees and garbage is not a “global warming solution” but a health and
climate disaster” said Meg Sheehan, Chair of the Stop Spewing Carbon Ballot Question Committee. “Incinerators are not “green” energy. The
five incinerators proposed for the area will emit pollutants such as mercury and dioxin, some of the most toxic chemicals known to science. They will give us only 1% more electricity but add 11% more carbon dioxide to the air.” Sheehan said.
The Boston Herald reports that far-right zealot Sarah Palin is coming to Boston on April 14, 10AM at Boston Commons (Parkman Bandstand) to stir the pot at a tea party. What a slap in the face for the home of the REAL tea party! Any party crashers in the house?
Continue reading Sarah Palin’s tea party in Boston April 14!