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Coal Exports

By Boutai Hargrove

Olympia Fellowship of Reconciliation's new climate action group, Confronting The Climate Crisis, is planning a variety of actions for the President's Day weekend. On Sunday, February 17, 2013 at 3:00 p.m. There will be a NO Keystone XL Pipeline rally at Heritage Park in solidarity with the larger action in Washington D.C. After the rally, we will meet for a potluck and a carbon summit at Traditions Café, starting at 6:00 pm.

More than two thousand people attended the December 13, 2012 Seattle scoping hearing on the Gateway Pacific Terminal proposed for Cherry Point. So far we have used the due process provisions built into the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) to voice our opposition. Now that the time period for the scoping comments has ended, what is next for the opposition?

Confronting the Climate Crisis group has five working groups:

  • Direct Action, Rod Tharp, smcrae@earthlink.net, (360) 951-1080
  • Coal Trains, Mike Coday, mike@smallblueplanet.org, 360-556-2126.
  • Education, Outreach and Communications, Glen Anderson, glen@olywa.net, (360) 491-9093.
  • Positive Visions, Gar Lipow, glipow@gmail.com, (360) 943-1529.
  • Fossil Fuel Divestment, Ted Nation, nation_ted@yahoo.com., (360) 352-6327. -}

    The Positive Visions working group is formulating our legislative agenda. So far, we have approved an innovative program which Gar Lipow calls NO FEAR, No Obligation Funding of Efficiency and Renewables, and members of the group plan to meet with legislators to get a bill introduced to implement the program during this session. Contact Gar Lipow or Rod Tharp about these plans. The web site for the petition to Governor Inslee is: www.change.org/petitions/governor-inslee-please-address-the-climate-crisis


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