Last week, Massey Energy began dynamiting Coal River Mountain in West Virginia - the site of a proposed 328-megawatt wind farm - to prepare for a massive mountaintop removal coal mining operation.
Today, organizations across the nation are joining forces with RAN to send a powerful message to the Obama Administration to stop the blasting on Coal River Mountain and protect our clean energy resources. With your help, this could be a day of action that makes history.
Coal River Mountain can be a wind farm that provides 85,000 households with electricity, 700 long-term green jobs, gives back $1.7 million in annual county taxes and stands as a model for clean energy across the region. Or, it can be a 6,000-acre dirty energy wasteland.
The fate of Coal River Mountain is up to you. Contact the Obama Administration today. Ask them to immediately stop the blasting on Coal River Mountain and preserve our nation's clean energy resources.
To local residents, Coal River Mountain is a last stand. It is one of the most dangerous examples of blasting for dirty coal and one of the most profound examples of hope that exists in our country. It is a crossroads.
There are two urgent reasons for you to join the cause to save this mountain: because people are in danger, and because we are blowing up, literally dynamiting, one of our nation's most promising sources of clean energy. But really, the most important reason for you to act is because you can.
Coal River Mountain must become our line in the sand. We can no longer allow fossil fuel interests to build more pipelines, belch out more pollution, and destroy more mountains that could become clean energy wind farms. If we can stop the blasting on Coal River Mountain, we can stop talking about a clean energy future and start living in a clean energy present.
Demand that the Obama Administration stop the blasting today.
For the mountains,
Scott Parkin
Rainforest Action Network
corporate citizenship. This case is coming to the
Supreme Court.
Hertz Corp. v. Friend (08-1107)
Oral argument: Nov. 10, 2009
Appealed from: United States Court of Appeals for
the Ninth Circuit <http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/>
(Oct. 30, 2008)
DIVERSITY JURISDICTION, CITIZENSHIP OF CORPORATIONS
Though federal courts are generally only able to
hear claims arising under federal law, Congress
gives them the power to exercise so called
’Äúdiversity jurisdiction’Äù over any state law
civil claim between citizens of different states.
When a multistate corporation seeks relief in
federal court on the basis of a so-called
diversity action, courts wrestle with exactly
what factors they should look to in determining
the corporation’Äôs citizenship. Here, a group of
California citizens sued Hertz Corporation in
California state court alleging violations of
California’Äôs state labor laws. Hertz sought to
remove the case to federal court. The Ninth
Circuit concluded Hertz was a California citizen
and denied removal jurisdiction. This case
presents the Supreme Court with the opportunity
to lay out a specific test for determining
corporate citizenship for the purposes of
diversity jurisdiction.
continues... <http://topics.law.cornell.
Do you have some extra items hanging around in need of new homes? Then, it's time to Pass It On! Please find the PassItOnNH group closest to you and start passing your unwanted items on to others in your community. We can keep items out of the landfills while we're at it too! Maybe you've heard that "one man's trash is another man's treasure"? We believe it and hope you'll help make it a reality. Everything given away here must be totally FREE, legal and appropriate for all ages. Posts should be limited to OFFER with town of pickup or TAKEN (preferably with original subject and message intact). Be prudent when setting a meeting time and place - unless the item is really unwieldly, you may want to consider meeting in a public place. This group is for the towns in the greater Conway, NH area including: Albany, Bartlett, Brookfield, Chatham, Conway, Eaton, Effingham, Freedom, Harts Location, Jackson, Madison, Moultonboro, Ossipee, Sandwich, Tamworth, Tuftonboro, Wakefield, and Wolfeboro. Enjoy! |
Now that the cold weather is settling in and the Holidays are approaching, please consider supporting a local non-profit by shopping in the Carroll County Altrusa Catalog. The catalog is available at Grammy Gordon's or you can go to www.Carrollcountyaltrusa.com click on the arrow and then download the catalog and the order blank. Altrusa has had great support from local business and offers a variety of gift items from local talented people.
If you find items you like, you can save on shipping if you are willing to pick up here in Tamworth, just make a note on your order blank and we'll contact you when the order is ready to pick up. Please feel free to send any questions to our email address carrolcountyaltrusa@yahoo.com
Final order date is December 31st.
Thanks for your support. Cathy Baybutt
CONTACT: Ted Lechterman, Corporate Accountability International, 617-695-2525
Shelly Gobeille, Protect Our Water and Wildlife Resources, 207-608-1979
Statement of Deputy Director Leslie Samuelrich: Community Rebuffs Nestlé, Demonstrates Power of the Grassroots
After an extended grassroots campaign, Nestlé is finally removing 23 bottled water test wells from a wildlife management area in Shapleigh and
Shelly Gobielle and her neighbors first discovered the wells a year and a half ago, three years after Nestlé’s under-the-radar installation. Upon realizing that Shapleigh was likely one of the next sites for Nestlé’s water extraction for its Poland Spring brand bottled water, residents approached town officials with their concerns about what bottling would do to the local ecosystem. Their words fell on deaf ears, as Nestlé had already lobbied for and secured the support of the Shapleigh town officials.
The only option was for residents to take matters into their own hands, forming the group Protect Our Water and Wildlife Resources (POWWR). Members hit the streets and went door to door educating the public and signing enough petitions to call a town meeting, held four months ago. Residents in both Shapleigh and the neighboring town of passed ordinances that asserted the right of townspeople to control their own water and to prohibit commercial water extraction, a reality that can at last be assured.
A heartfelt congratulations are due to Shelly, POWWR members, and the residents of Shapleigh and Newfield who volunteered their time and immense energy to protecting their water resources.
This is a watershed moment, so to speak, in the effort to restore local control over water. Earlier this month another community group, the Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation, secured a major court victory against Nestlé after nine years of legal battles and Nestlé appeals. The settlement requires Nestlé to dramatically reduce pumping during summer months at a critical well site in , and prohibits the corporation from increasing pumping levels in the future.
This is the year for a clean energy bill and we need to tell our senators it's time to act. Let's turn up the heat on bold climate action. On Monday, August 10th, we're holding a beach party to welcome our senators back home for the month and to tell them we need a strong clean energy jobs bill when the Senate returns in September. So, grab your beach gear (Hawaiian shirt, straw hat, sunglasses), your flotation devices & beach balls, sand pails & flip-flops and join us for a beach party our senators will never forget. Please plan to join us (and bring EVERYONE you know!) for our beach party rally beginning at noon on Monday, Aug. 10 on the sidewalk in front of the State House in Concord. (this will be a short event - c'mon you can squeeze it into a lunch hour!) There couldn't be a more important time for our senators to hear from us! *In the event of heavy rain, we will hold our rally in the lobby of the Legislative Office Building (LOB) - It is directly behind the State House - but look for us first on the sidewalk in front of the State House on Main St.
AddressOn sidewalk in front of NH Statehouse ( gold-domed Capital building) 107 N. Main St. Concord, NH 03301So come join the party and let's tell our senators, "we need a strong clean energy jobs bill for our economy!" click on link below and please rsvp or register for the event to let me know if you can come!Check out this event:http://action.1sky.org/
Gail Denemark1 Sky - NH State Organizer603 554-6349gdenemark@yahoo.comwww
Mozilla Service Week : September 14–21 by Kathy Urffer - Tuesday, 28 July 2009, 04:56 PM | ||||
 |
GMCG Reminder to community
Posted by: "Public Relations Remick Museum" pr@remickmuseum.org
Mon Jul 27, 2009 7:16 am (PDT)
The Green Mountain Conservation Group and the Lakes Region Planning Commission are holding two work sessions that will focus on creating Aquifer Protection Ordinances for the towns of Effingham, Freedom, Madison, Ossipee, Tamworth and Sandwich. These work sessions are scheduled for July 30th and August 13th from 6-8pm, at the Remick Country Doctor Museum and Farm in Tamworth. Public input is needed to craft an ordinance that is specific to the needs of your town, while offering enhanced regional protection of our shared drinking water. Attendance at these work sessions is important in order to demonstrate your town's interest in this project.
These sessions are open to the public and town planners, conservation commissioners, selectmen, local businesses, public water suppliers, and other interested individuals are encouraged to attend. Please RSVP to GMCG at gmcgnh@roadrunner.com or 539-1859.The Remick Country Doctor Museum and Farm is located at 58 Cleveland Hill Road, Tamworth, NH and is easily accessible from Routes 16 and 25. For more information about the Remick Museum and Farm's special events, programs, and tour schedules please call 323-7591 or visit us online at remickmuseum.org.
Christiana Amesquita
Public Relations Assistant
Remick Country Doctor Museum & Farm
58 Cleveland Hill Rd
PO Box 250
Tamworth, NH 03886
(800) 686- 6117 or (603) 323- 7591
fax (603) 323- 8382
www.remickmuseum.org
pr@remickmuseum.org
Wendell Potter, the Center for Media and Democracy's Senior Fellow on
Health Care, will be interviewed by Bill Moyers on his Journal program
this Friday, July 10th, at 9PM Eastern time. Wendell Potter spent
more than 20 years as a public relations executive for two large
health insurers - Cigna and Humana - but left the industry after
witnessing practices he felt harmed American health care consumers.
Click here for details! <http://www.prwatch.org/node/
Best,
John
------------------------------
John Stauber, Founder, Center for Media and Democracy
520 University Avenue #227, Madison, WI 53703 Phone (608)260-9713
Website http://www.prwatch.org
Help fund our non-profit work:
http://prwatch.org/donate
Subscribe to our free weekly listserv:
http://www.prwatch.org/cmd/
Participate in our wiki reporting at:
http://www.SourceWatch.org
http://www.Congresspedia.org