NO NEW COAL PLANTS – It’s almost Energy Fair time!
June 11th, 2007
Hey, folks, it’s time for the Midwest Renewable Energy Association’s Energy Fair. NO NEW COAL PLANTS will be there! There’s something for everyone, hundreds of workshops, exhibitors, and check out:
Helen Caldicott at 1 p.m. on Friday. Thanks to Terry Kissner and Nancy Casper, I had the pleasure of joining her for a white tablecloth lunch at Carleton prior to Convo. That was, oh, probably a decade ago now, back when NSP was wanting to put nuclear waste in Florence Township. She’s still at it — well worth the trip to Custer.
NO NEW COAL PLANTS will have a booth, X-92 over by the workshop tents, and we’ve got participation from all over. The point? Simple — an unequivacated NO to each and every new coal plant proposed. No New Coal Plants is under Mike Ewall’s Energy Justice umbrella.
I’m representing mncoalgasplant.com and Citizens Against the Mesaba Project in their opposition to Excelsior Energy’s Mesaba Project in MN; also Alan Muller, Green Delaware, which promoted the wind option and opposed the NRG IGCC plant that Delaware’s PSC rejected last month; and contributing are John Blair and Valley Watch, Intervenor against the Duke IGCC plant; Mary Jo Stueve, Clean Water Action, and individual Intervenor in South Dakota Big Stone II (affectionately known as BSII); Nancy LaPlaca of Denver put together the IGCC Fact Sheet now ready for its debut! And thanks to Matt Leonard, Rainforest Action Network, for “Moving Closer to a Moratorium on Coal. I’m still waiting for submissions from Florida (get to it Bob!), Ohio (Elisa, this means you!), Colorado (Nancy, you’re not done yet!).
The Fair is open:
Friday and Saturday 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Sunday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
It’s in Custer, Wisconsin, smack dab in the middle of Wisconsin.
Here’s me years ago totally soaked and cold and crabby, seriously needing really warm coffee… there was 9 inches of rain in two days that weekend, gale force winds, and oh did it suck… it sucked so bad it was hysterically hilarious, crews of people pushing cars out of the “parking lot” that was knee deep in mud, dump truck after dump truck of gravel trying to make it workable… what to do but laugh… and no way can it rain that much again…
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