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"No-Coal" flyers distributed by BBCAT in advance of the City Commission's coal plant hearing

December 2006

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TELL OUR CITY COMMISSIONERS:

COAL IS TOO RISKY – VOTE FOR CLEAN ENERGY FIRST!

Big Bend Climate Action Team (BBCAT)

December 1, 2006

What you need to know:   Tallahassee city commissioners are working on plans to diversify the city’s energy supply, which currently comes almost totally from natural gas. One proposal calls for the city to become a partner in the Taylor Energy Center, an 800-megawatt  coal plant planned for Taylor County. The coal plant would:

  • Cost $4,000 of our taxes for every person in Tallahassee
  • Contribute to global warming
  • Pour hundreds of tons of pollutants into our air, shortening lives, contaminating fish, causing asthma attacks, harming unborn babies
  • Create only a few jobs in Taylor County and none in Leon County.

And the city’s investment of more than $400 million could go down the drain. America’s chief climate scientist, Dr. James E. Hansen, predicts that as global warming worsens, Congress may have to force coal plants to shut down. 

 

Opposing the coal plant are 28 local clergy, the Capital and Florida medical societies, FSU scientists and many local and national environmental groups.

 

The alternative: Another plan, which the city calls the ‘all-gas’ plan, contributes clean energy from renewable resources and a major energy efficiency program. It would provide all the energy we need for at least 10 years, diversify our energy resource mix, save tax dollars, create many local jobs and minimize pollution and health impacts. And it would make Tallahassee the clean energy leader of the Southeast. With this option, we don’t need a  costly and polluting coal plant!

 

What you need to do: City commissioners may vote on the energy plan as early as Tuesday December 5. Call or email the mayor and commissioners and tell them:

  • Coal is too big a risk – to our environment, to our health, to our pocketbooks, to our future.
  • Clean energy costs less, is better for health, creates local jobs and makes us a clean energy leader. Vote for clean energy first!

[Flyer gave telephone and email contacts for mayor and commissioners]

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COAL VOTE COMING UP –

CITY COMMISSIONERS NEED TO HEAR FROM YOU!

Big Bend Climate Action Team (BBCAT)

December 1, 2006

 

Tallahassee’s commissioners may vote as early as Tuesday on whether to join in building the proposed 800-megawatt pulverized-coal plant in Taylor County. They need to hear from citizens who oppose the plant.

 

Please email or call the mayor and city commissioners today! Tell them:

  • You don’t want to pay for an expensive, risky burden that may be forced to close before it’s even paid for due to its impact on global warming!
  • You don’t want your children and grandchildren to breathe polluted air from the particulate emissions of a power plant that burns pulverized coal!
  • You don’t want to suffer the impact of carbon taxes on your electric bill as Congress deals with increasing global warming!
  • You don’t want to buy expensive, polluting coal-generated power now when the city doesn’t need more power till at least 2016!
  • You want Florida’s capital city to be a clean-energy leader, showing the state how to provide clean, renewable, affordable energy!
  • You agree with 28 clergy leaders, the Capital and Florida medical societies and many local and national environmental groups – coal plants are bad for our community!

Clean energy costs less, is better for health and creates Leon County jobs. We can’t afford the risks of burning coal. Vote for Clean Energy First!

[Flyer gave telephone and email contacts for mayor and commissioners]

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