EC May 2007

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I am on holiday
by Barbara Fallon 29 May '07

29 May '07

I am in Florida visiting my mother until June 4th. I am keeping up with the energy committee and working on funding from here in florida. I am wondering if anyone was able to get to the PA meeting? I can't find the email that circulated re: Virginia Sierra and expert witnesses. Can anyone resend that to me? or was I dreaming again//// My body is poolside, but my thoughts are with you. REgards, Barbara ____________________________________________________________________________________ Park yourself in front of a world of choices in alternative vehicles. Visit the Yahoo! Auto Green Center. http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/

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Re: [EC] Wanted Saturday - PA Chapter Meeting - Powerline Decision
by James Kotcon 18 May '07

18 May '07

I regret that I will not be able to attend, I am hosting a workshop at the WVU Organic Research Farm Saturday, so it would be bad form for me to blow it off. Attached is the (near) final version of the Fact sheet and reasons to oppose that the WV Chapter Energy Committee complied. I am also attaching a draft of the New Matter Form we prepared for the WV Chapter ExCom to intervene in the WV Public Service Commission case. It is my understanding that the WV ExCom has tabled this pending a more detailed budget and campaign plan, as well as a better listing of allies and affiliations. The PA Chapter may find it useful. My understanding is that the deadline to intervene in the WV case is at least a month away, I do not know the timeframe for the PA-PUC case. Jim Kotcon 304-293-8822 (office) 304-594-3322 (home) >>> Jonathan Rosenbaum <freesource(a)cheat.org> 5/18/2007 11:50 AM >>> Hi EC, Attached are directions, and the Agenda for the PA Chapter's meeting this Saturday at State College. This will be the first time they are discussing TrAIL, and deciding on a course of action. Jeff Schmidt, Chair, told me that Will Burns of Stop the Towers, will be making a power point presentation after Lunch ( http://stopthetowers.org/ ). This is a great opportunity for us to present the situation, and establish important alliances. Jeff would like to know by 4:00 p.m. today whether anyone from out Committee is planning to attend. Alternatively, we could email him a written statement. Please email back this list if you decide on any action. I could ride up with someone, it's about 3 hours away. You should contact: To Chair: Jeff Schmidt <jeff.schmidt(a)sierraclub.org> CC Conservation Chair: Tim Wolper <twolper(a)swanzoco.com> CC: Energy Committee <ec(a)osenergy.org> Thanks, Jonathan

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Wanted Saturday - PA Chapter Meeting - Powerline Decision
by Jonathan Rosenbaum 18 May '07

18 May '07

Hi EC, Attached are directions, and the Agenda for the PA Chapter's meeting this Saturday at State College. This will be the first time they are discussing TrAIL, and deciding on a course of action. Jeff Schmidt, Chair, told me that Will Burns of Stop the Towers, will be making a power point presentation after Lunch ( http://stopthetowers.org/ ). This is a great opportunity for us to present the situation, and establish important alliances. Jeff would like to know by 4:00 p.m. today whether anyone from out Committee is planning to attend. Alternatively, we could email him a written statement. Please email back this list if you decide on any action. I could ride up with someone, it's about 3 hours away. You should contact: To Chair: Jeff Schmidt <jeff.schmidt(a)sierraclub.org> CC Conservation Chair: Tim Wolper <twolper(a)swanzoco.com> CC: Energy Committee <ec(a)osenergy.org> Thanks, Jonathan

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minutes of May 11 conference call
by Sally Wilts 18 May '07

18 May '07

I'll attach the minutes of the conference call. Send any corrections to Barbara Fallon at brbr_fallon(a)yahoo.com ____________________________________________________________________________________Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us. http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7

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Re: [EC] New Matter Form
by Jonathan Rosenbaum 14 May '07

14 May '07

In the *DESCRIPTIVE MEMO* in the last paragraph of B, "intervenore" should be "intervenors", and the last paragraph of C needs a period. In A where it says: "The alleged purpose of the line is to relieve transmission congestion and bottlenecks between power plants in the Ohio Valley and Midwest states and consumers in East Coast markets. However, we believe that the line's primary purpose is to increase sales of electricity from underused coal-fired power plants owned by Allegheny Energy, and displace electricity from more expensive, but potentially cleaner power plants nearer to those markets." I'd like to make a comment, and maybe a suggest a rewording, though I'm leaving that up to you, it's probably good as it is. However, according to the "Draft National Corridor Designations Key Findings and Conclusions" at http://nietc.anl.gov/documents/docs/FindingsAndConclusions.pdf under the "Principal Findings and Conclusions Concerning the Draft Mid-Atlantic Areas National Corridor Designation", one finding is that "high-production-cost generators in eastern PJM are used extensively, while generating capacity at lower-production-cost generators in western PJM are inaccessible with additional costs passed on to electricity consumers." Allegheny Power is definitely taking advantage of that finding so it's not an issue of us believing that this may be the case. One of my favorite findings of the DOE Findings is the one that talks about the Mid-Atlantic Critical Congestion Area, and then goes on to mention "the large number of military and other facilities in this area that are extremely important to the national defense and homeland security" and how "any deterioration of the electric reliability would constitute a serious risk to the well-being of the Nation." Now explain to me how building a new transmission line, that is easily vulnerable to a terrorist attack, is going to accomplish this? The DOE should be pushing decentralized energy solutions like the one Alan Tweedle talks about in his previous email. It can be further argued that for the DOE to encourage increased energy usage via non-renewable energy production and by establishing Corridors to facilitate this production, would mean that the DOE, itself, is a threat to the National Security it hopes to protect. Why? Because Global Warming poses a serious threat to the stability of the world. Probably everyone has read this - http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/15/warming.military.ap/index.html . Anyways, what I'm saying here about this finding wouldn't fit into the Matter Form, however, if you can find a place for it in the handout that will be passed out Wednesday night, it may turn some heads. Jonathan James Kotcon wrote: > Attached is a draft version of a New Matter Form for the Chapter to intervene before the Public Service Commission in the proposed Allegheny Transmission line case. The initial intervention is relatively low cost, but if expert witnesses are needed, the costs could escalate. There is significant potential to share costs with other citizens/groups along the proposed route, but firm commitments have not yet been made. > > No scheduling Order or deadline for intervention has yet been set, but one is expected soon and we would have at most 30 days to get approval to intervene in order to preserve our ability to participate fully in the proceedings. > > The Energy Committee approved this (in principle) on Friday night, with the goal of presenting it to the ExCom for approval at the Tuesday night conference call, and then submittal to the National Litigation Committee in San Francisco. > > Jim Kotcon > > P.S. Any suggestions for additional language or editting would be appreciated. > >

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New Energy Committe Email List
by Jonathan Rosenbaum 12 May '07

12 May '07

Hi all, To make communication easier for the Energy Committee, I've set-up this list. To post new email, send it to ec(a)osenergy.org . If you need to use a different email address to interact with the list, go to http://osenergy.org/mailman/listinfo/ec , follow the subscribing directions, and reply to the confirmation email. Over the weekend, if the listinfo link isn't working for you, it's related to the fact that I changed the DNS for osenergy.org. And if the link isn't working, you won't be able to send email to the list. For the majority of people this problem shouldn't exist, but if it does, it should clear up by Monday when the DNS cache is updated all over the world. [To put it simply, just realize if the list isn't working for you this weekend, it should be working for you by this Monday]. Enjoy, Jonathan

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by Jonathan Rosenbaum 12 May '07

12 May '07

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