Subject: MERCURY RULE
VOTE FRIDAY! HELP!!!!!!
This Friday is the vote
on the mercury rule. I really really need two
things from you. First,
can you make it to Helena. It is going to look
bad if I am the only
one there that wants a strong rule. Industry will
be there in force. They
have been meeting with the Gov's office, board
members and calling the
board. Is there any chance you can take the
morning and show up?
PLEASE! This is it. This is our one chance to get
it right!
Second, we need phone
calls to board members ASAP! The Gov's office
is putting a TON of
pressure on these guys to go with a modified cap
and trade rule that
doesn't require real reductions until 2018 and
allows companies to buy
and sell credits. If we don't put pressure on
the board they WILL
fold! We need as many phone calls as possible to
the people below. Could
you send this out to anyone you know? Thanks.
Anne
- URGENT -
LAST CHANCE TO
SPEAK UP FOR MERCURY CONTROLS AT COAL PLANTS!
ACT TODAY
This Friday, Sept. 15th
the Board of Environmental Review will vote on
a mercury rule for
coal-fired power plants. This rule is critical to
controlling the vast
majority of the mercury emissions in Montana.
Board members are
receiving a TON of pressure to cave to industry and
adopt a cap-and-trade
program that doesn't require much in the way of
control until 2018. It
is urgent that you phone members of the board
and tell them to vote
to protect public health, not industries' profit
margin. I am begging
you to act today! This is the only chance we get,
so PLEASE help and
phone board members right now! Here is the order of
importance for phone
calls:
The message is -
protect public health by having a strong, protective rule that does NOT
allow the buying and selling of a neurotoxin that will poison people downwind
of these plants.
Protect public health!
Joe Russell,
Board Chair
Office 751-8101
Home 752-6199
Gayle Skunkcap
Office 338-7207
Don Marble
Office 759-5104
Bill Rossbach
Office: 543-5156
Robin Shropshire
444-0875
Thank you and
cross your fingers, this is our one chance to get it right!
P.S. Please share
this with anyone else who might be willing to contact the board members!
Remember you have to call them before they leave for Helena on Thurs.
afternoon!
**********************
Anne Hedges
Program Director
Montana
Environmental Information Center
P.O. Box 1184
Helena, MT 59624
(406) 443-2520
fax: (406)
443-2507