We need people to step up to speak at Tuesday evening's special city council meeting. It's all about our ordinance and whether city council should vote to support it. It doesn't stop us if they don't (it'll go to the voters in November if they don't pass it), but this is a good opportunity to educate people.
PLEASE come to the meeting on Tuesday (6pm, City Hall, 435 Hamilton St) and email me back if you're willing to speak. You can take any of the myths and use it as your talking point.
You can also decide to take on any of the topics about incinerators in general. See below for some of the main topics, and if you want to take one on, let me know and I'll get you the specific stuff you should know to say.
You can also find lots of great info here: http://www.energyjustice.net/incineration (after the text, the best reports to check out are the "Health Effects of Waste Incinerators" report and the top five links under the "GAIA" section). The info on pyrolysis is most pertinent, since I think that's the type of incinerator Delta Thermo plans to use.
Incineration topics:
-language: incinerators vs. "waste-to-energy"
-most expensive way to make energy
-most expensive way to manage waste (more expensive than landfills)
-most polluting way to make energy (dirtier than coal power plants)
-most polluting way to manage waste
-it's not landfills vs. incinerators, but landfills vs. incinerator PLUS a smaller, more toxic ash landfill
-trash incineration = trash to toxic ash and toxic air emissions
-pollutants released & health impacts
-global warming impacts
-waste-OF-energy
-incineration vs. zero waste on jobs
-zero waste solutions
-incineration competes with recycling
-lack of adequate pollution monitoring
-property values
-environmental justice
Go get 'em!
Mike Ewall, Esq.
Founder & Director
Energy Justice Network
215-436-9511
mike@energyjustice.net
http://www.energyjustice.nethttp://www.energyjustice.net/donate/ <-- help us help you! Donate today.
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http://www.facebook.com/energyjustice - like :)
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013
BLUES, BREWS, & BARBECUE - ALLENTOWN / Saturday June 8, 2013
Blues, Brews & Barbecue
Saturday, June 8, 2013 Noon - 10PM
Hamilton Street - Allentown, PA
Blues, Brews & Barbecue is the epitome of summer in one incredibly tasty, soulful and fun event.
From noon until 10pm on Saturday June 8th, the 800 Block of Hamilton Street will be the place to be. With a menu of live music by the hottest Blues musicians, face-painting, artists in action and more barbecue than you can imagine, this event is not to be missed.
Back by popular demand - the 6th Annual Blues, Brews & Barbecue includes the best barbecue anywhere, refreshing brews and activities that are fun for the whole family. This event which kicked off in 2008 grows bigger and better each year and is a Lehigh Valley favorite within the Blues circuit!
From noon until 10pm on Saturday June 8th, the 800 Block of Hamilton Street will be the place to be. With a menu of live music by the hottest Blues musicians, face-painting, artists in action and more barbecue than you can imagine, this event is not to be missed.
Back by popular demand - the 6th Annual Blues, Brews & Barbecue includes the best barbecue anywhere, refreshing brews and activities that are fun for the whole family. This event which kicked off in 2008 grows bigger and better each year and is a Lehigh Valley favorite within the Blues circuit!
ALLENTOWN ART SQUAWK - Sunday June 2nd
A quarterly celebration of the vibrant Allentown art scene featuring open studios, galleries, the Allentown Art Museum, Baum School of Art, the Antonio Salemme Foundation, Community Music School, Miller Symphony Hall ... and more ...
SIXTH ANNUAL BUSINESS SHOWCASE - MAY 30th
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6TH ANNUAL BUSINESS SHOWCASE
SteelStacks, 101 Founders Way, Bethlehem, Pa
Nazareth Chamber - 610-759-9188 or tina@nazarethchamber.com
Honoring local farmers. Come and join us and stay for a free concert at 7p.m. on the TD Bank Community Stage. $300 member, $400 non-member.
FUN FESTIVAL EVENT JUNE 1st
Greetings Gas Truthers,
I am writing about our fun festival event in Allentown this Saturday, co-sponsored by Lehigh Valley Gas Truth, under the generous umbrella of the Alliance for Sustainable Communities - Lehigh Valley, Amber Connection with our dear friends Urszula Abolick and Dr. Barnaby Ruhe, and LVGT's own Allen Howells all co-hosting. PLEASE watch the following 90 second video to understand the nature of our event with details- we need help recruiting any last minute participants---> CLICK HERE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkFJ5_qZ1lQ
Attached to this email are three letters: ONE to "artists"- any potential "performers" among We the People of any age who have a creative contribution from satiric to sublime concerning the value of clean water to the dangers of fracking our aquifers;
ONE to school personnel or teachers who may know any students who want to participate creatively AND/OR as "press corps" <----ANYONE who can record video or pictures on their mobile phone, camera, or iPad and get it onto YouTube, post to social media, or text to friends. We hope that people will do BOTH! Have your own ONE MINUTE and then "report" on everyone else!
And ONE to any businesses who recognize and honor our dependence as a community upon clean water supplies enough to make a tax-deductible charitable contribution to defray the expenses of our permit, band shell rental, and electric-- donations of ALL sizes welcomed!
PLEASE- if you know potential performers, people who work with students, or business people who may be interested in supporting THIS WEEKEND, PLEASE forward an appropriate letter to them and ask them to contact me: Julie Edgar 484.557.4182. Forward them this whole e-mail and explain why at the top.
Also the final attachment is the official flyer of the event to forward as well.
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Meeting: We are having a very IMPORTANT physical meeting of LVGT- special session due to multiple conflicts- Wednesday 5 June 7-8:30PM at the UU Church Bethlehem, 424 Center Street Room 304.
We will be organizing the final push for getting MAXIMUM attendance at our GASLAND screening on Monday 17 June 6:30PM -- MARK YOUR CALENDARS!-- at Broughal Middle School on the South Side of Bethlehem.
THIS IS HUGE, JOSH FOX WILL BE THERE. ONLY 20 cities in USA get this grassroots screening opportunity-- WOW!!!!!
Final item: Karen Feridun of Berks Gas Truth is planning a HUGE, important event to influence PA Democratic policy on shale gas in Lancaster, PA on 15 June. PLEASE sign and forward this petition:
http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/tell-pa-dems-stop-fracking?mailing_id=12584&source=s.icn.em.cr&r_by=141522
ALSO, save the date: 18 June in Harrisburg noon RALLY with Josh Foxfor a clean DEP and cleaner PA water: more details soon! FB event page listing many important June events for Stop the Frack AttackMonth of action:
https://www.facebook.com/events/332796763515170/?ref=14
JUNE LVGT meeting FB event page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/460831470657733/
THANKS for all you do-- PLEASE help promote our festival right now if you have FIVE MINUTES!
yours trulie,
julie edgar
organizer, Lehigh Valley Gas Truth
www.facebook.com/lehighvalleygastruth
www.safewatersociety.org
http://commonsense2.com/2012/03/activism/julie-edgar-part-two/
LEHIGH VALLEY ARTS COUNCIL presents GETTING IN ON THE ACT
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