Mountain Justice Blacksburg

Just wanted to remind you that we’re having our weekly Mountain Justice meeting tonight at 7:30 in Squires 232. It’d be great to come out to this meeting as we finalize last minute things for *Fossil Fools day! *In fact, if you’d like to stay after the meeting a little bit, we’ll begin some preparatory work for our FFD shenanigans and we could use all the help we can get.  Let’s just say, if guerrilla art is your thing…you’ll want to be there.

Agenda items:

• Fossil Fools busy-ness
• Earth day: tabling and AEP shareholders meeting bustup
• MTR day
• anything else you’d like to talk about

Hope to see you there!

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine has been battered by criticism from environmentalists over his support of a new coal-fired power plant for southwest Virginia, which Dominion Virginia Power says is essential to the state’s energy needs but which could also lead to higher utility rates for consumers statewide.The controversy pits Kaine (D), who has made environmental protection a top priority, against a sizable chunk of his political base, even though the governor said he is powerless to stop the project even if he wanted to. The State Corporation Commission and other regulatory agencies issue the construction permits.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/29/AR2008032901844.html

Join us on Tuesday, April 01, at High Noon for Fossil Fools Day ‘08:

Show the world that you won’t be fooled by bogus solutions to climate change — come join the parade!

Help us spread the word — grab a flyer for the event, make some copies, and tell your friends! For more infomration about national and international actions, check out the Fossil Fools ‘08 web site.

In Burning the Future: Coal in America, writer/director David Novack examines the explosive forces that have set in motion a groundswell of conflict between the coal industry and residents of West Virginia. Confronted by an emerging coal-based US energy policy, local activists watch the nation praise coal without regard to the devastation caused by its extraction. Faced with toxic ground water, the obliteration of 1.4 million acres of mountains, and a government that appeases industry, our heroes demonstrate a strength of purpose and character in their improbable fight to arouse the nation’s help in protecting their mountains, saving their families, and preserving their way of life.

http://www.burningthefuture.org/

Roughly 60 Virginia religious leaders and scholars have asked Gov. Timothy M. Kaine to oppose Dominion Virginia Power’s plans for a coal-burning power plant in Wise County.

The proposed power plant will release an unacceptable amount of climate-changing greenhouse gases and will encourage more destructive strip mining in Virginia’s mountains, they said in a letter to Kaine.

http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-03-11-0025.html