No New Fossil Fuel Infrastructure Bill

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From: Geoffrey Gardner<uppervalleyaffinitygroup@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 2:54 PM
Subject: Urgent! Act Now to Support the No New Fossil Fuel Infrastructure Bill Now!
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No More Pipelines In Vermont!

Not Ever – Not Anywhere!

The No New Fossil Fuel Infrastructure Bill Is Now In Committee

We Have Just Two Weeks to Get This Bill Out To The Whole Legislature

The Time For Us To Act Is Now!

     A little more than a week ago, Representative Mary Sullivan of Burlington introduced H.746 to the House Energy and Technology Committee. Patrick Flood from the 350VT Board and Rachel Smolker from Protect Geprags spoke to the committee, urging them to hear more on the bill and then pass it along for consideration by the whole House. Their testimony is here: https://youtu.be/qU_KLIfVkwM. 

     The Committee has more than 50 bills under consideration. It has only till March 2nd to decide which bills it will send along to the whole House. This means that as many people as possible will have to call the members of the Energy and Technology Committee, their own representatives and members of the Legislature’s Joint Climate Solutions Caucus to urge them as strongly as we can to support moving this bill out of committee. 

     Attached you will find contact information for members of the Committee and a list of the Climate Caucus members. You can find contact information for your own Representative and Caucus members here:  https://legislature.vermont.gov/people/. 

     

     It is always better to phone than email, but if you email be sure your subject line says: Support H.746 or Support the No New Fossil Fuel Infrastructure Bill. Also attached is a one page summary of what the bill will do. Please share all this information with your family, your friends and your neighbors and send it to all your networks. 

On Tuesday February 27th At 11:15 AM

A Press Conference In Support Of H.746 

In The Cedar Creek Room At The State House 

     This press conference will be an opportunity to get the news about H.746 and the urgent need for this legislation out to the media and the public. It is critically important that the largest possible number of people be present at this press conference to show that support for the 

No New Fossil Fuel Infrastructure Bill is wide and deep. We know that a weekday/workday morning is a hard time for most of us to take time off, but please try to do all you can to be there for the press conference. If you can come out for only one event, between now and March 2nd, to support the move away from fossil fuels and in favor of the transition to renewable energy, please let that one event be this press conference.

We must get this bill moving by March 2nd!

Contact the Committee Members and your Representatives today!

Come To The Press Conference At The State House on February 27th At 11:15 AM!

For more information you can write to us at uppervalleyaffinitygroup@gmail.com