To halt the worst effects of global warming, we must end emissions of greenhouse gases from coal by 2030, and therefore will need gas as a transition fuel, possibly until 2050. As part of this transition, we should not advocate an expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure (e.g., new plants), but rather a short-term switch from coal to gas, as soon as practical.
That does not mean we are any less committed to promoting stringent regulation of the gas industry in WV (although you would never be able to tell that by the paltry turnout at the WVEC meeting this weekend).
JBK
Jim Sconyers jim_scon@yahoo.com 10/11/2010 10:40 AM >>>
#3 - not quite. The SC Council of Club Leaders (CCL) rejected a resolution from Atlantic Chapter to ban horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing almost unanimously.
What's up with Coke?
Jim Sconyers jim_scon@yahoo.com 304.698.9628
Remember: Mother Nature bats last.
________________________________ From: Jonathan Rosenbaum freesource@cheat.org To: Energy Committee ec@osenergy.org; Chuck Wyrostok wyro@appalight.com Sent: Sat, October 9, 2010 11:36:35 PM Subject: [EC] Fwd: Sierra Club nominating petition
What do people think about this? I know that #1, #2, #4 are true. Does anyone know if #3 is true?
http://connect.sierraclub.org/post/Groups/Welcome_Michael_Brune/blog/watch_b...
-Jonathan
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Sierra Club nominating petition Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 22:58:48 -0400 From: Robert Jereski mutualaid@earthlink.net
October 10, 2010
Dear Fellow Sierrans
I have learned that an acquaintance of mine, the dedicated environmentalist and long-time member of the Sierra Club, Frank Morris, is running as a petition
candidate for the national Sierra
Club Board of Directors for 2011. I am delighted as I know that Frank would add much needed energy and vision to the work of the BoD. He is running as a petition candidate for the national board, because he is concerned with the direction of the national Sierra Club, including the following facts:
1. Sierra Club’s former leader Carl Pope has publicly supported the “Picken’s Plan”. T Boone Pickens is an oil and natural gas billionaire, who in 2004 undermined the Sierra Club’s endorsed Presidential candidate John Kerry by funding the Swift Boat Campaign. The Picken’s Plan is a pro-gas (fossil fuel) plan.
2. In one of his first public acts as new Sierra Club director, Michael Brune was on Cramer’s Mad Money advocating the purchase of natural gas stocks. Exxon Mobil recently purchased leading natural gas provider XTO energy. Does Mr. Brune now advocate owning Exxon Mobil as an environmental investment?
3. National Sierra Club Staffers and national board members, clearly and definitively, advised “ NYS Sierrans against legislatively advocating for a ban on “Fracking” for natural gas in NYS. Fracking is a process, presently absolved from multiple federal environmental statutes including the Clean Air and Clean Water acts, where in chemically infused sand and water is used to “frack” or break, shale stone and release natural gas.
4. Sierra Club is now in the products endorsement business, and has sold its endorsement to Clorox and Coca Cola to support their “green” products.
Frank Morris believes that innovative financing like PACE bonds, and a truly renewable energy infrastructure based on sun, wind, wave, efficiency, conservation, smart grid, back up battery power, and geothermal are available now, but these breakthroughs are being obfuscated by the club’s decision to support natural gas as an open ended “transition” fuel.
Morris needs to collect 250 signatures from active Sierrans (petition attached). While the national board is always elected by the membership, there is a nominating committee that nominates members that play nice… That’s why Morris has to petition to allow
members a real choice when elections are held early next year.
There are 3 ways for Sierrans to complete this petition:
Print, Sign, and snail mail to Frank Morris, 40 Exchange Place Suite 2010 NY NY 10005 Sign, scan, and email to fm@ecologicadvisors.us Sign, print and fax to 1 206 984 4328
Frank is presently a member of the NYS (Atlantic Chapter) Sierra Club Executive Committee, and former Chairperson of Long Island Sierra Club 2007-2009.
Please forward to other Sierrans that may be interested in supporting a
grassroots, petition candidate beholden only to the interests of the club
membership.
Robert Jereski New York City Sierra Club member