“This is what you should do: Love the earth and sun and animals” Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Friends, 2024 is our year to choose acts that will save our earth’s habitat. Here are two easy ways to add your 2024 voice to these two critical climate issues.
Green Sanctuary Members have been persistently partnering with several groups to:
- Replace (and clean up) the Fayette Power Plant (FPP) with renewable generation and storage. Saving money for ratepayers and saving the climate from the millions of deadly metric tons of toxic pollutants the FPP currently spews into our sky.
Here is a link to reach Austin City Council Members. Your voice is important. Every message to every CM is read and logged.
- Champion for the Best Resource Generation and Climate Protection Plan for RATE PAYERS by Austin Energy (AE). This is the proposed plan of how our taxpayer money will purchase energy generation and clean up our climate. As of Monday, AE is floating the idea of “hydrogen capable” gas plant (more needless fossil fuel). This may be more chasing new Fed money than smart policy and practice. AE would be smarter using the Fed money now on the ground to turn the FPP lemon into lemonade. Here is a factsheet that the Excellent Texas Public Citizen has put together:
We’ll (Public Citizen) have a factsheet to help with talking points. In the meantime, here are some resources on hydrogen to get you started:
- Hydrogen climate implications
- On the importance of hydrogen leakage on climate change
- Overview and sources addressing several concerns, including air quality, safety, and water use
- Hydrogen pipeline safety
Beki or I will send you talking points and a link to reach your Council Member (CM) with your thoughts. Don’t need to wait? This is the action page on the gas plant proposal.
Want more trustworthy climate news, GOOD & BAD? Here, free>talkingclimatenewsletter@outlook.com.
Will 2023’s catastrophes fuel 2024’s action?
Beki & Richard Halpin, Green Sanctuary Ministry at First UU green@austinuu.org
