Desert Rock Coal Plant Update: stop tax credits for the plant!

The New Mexico House Energy and Natural Resources Committee may rehear the House version of the Desert Rock bill, HB 178 Wednesday, February 28^th at 8:30 am in room 315 at the Roundhouse. This bill calls for an $85 million (!) tax credit on the Navajo Nation for the proposed Sithe Global coal-fired power plant. This is the same Desert Rock Power Plant that Navajo tribal grassroots members are opposing. For the most up to date information about the Desert Rock Power Plant visit the Desert Rock Blog.

TAKE ACTION!!!!

Call Representative James Roger Madalena, Chairman of the House Energy and Natural Resource Committee for the New Mexico State Legislature and tell him you are opposed to tax credits for the Sithe Global coal fired power plant! Below are the phone number and a sample script:
Representative Madalena can be reached at: (505) 986-4417

“Hello, my name is (your name here) and I am with (the name of your affiliation here) based in (your state here). I would like to leave a message for Representative James Roger Madalena. I am calling to voice my/our opposition to House Bill 178 and Senate Bill 431 – the Navajo Nation Electric Facility Tax Credit bills. We oppose the Desert Rock Power Plant on the Navajo reservation due to the extremely harmful environmental and health effects it would have on both the Navajo and non-Navajo people in the surrounding community. The proposed coal fired power plant will also add to the greenhouse gas emissions that are a major cause of climate change and global warming, which affects us all.”

Thank you for your support!

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About Liz

While at the University of North Carolina, Liz led one of the first successful campus renewable energy campaigns in the southeast and won the Morris K. Udall scholarship in both 2002 & 2003. She organized the first Southeast Student Renewable Energy Conference April 2-4, 2004, to engage other Southern schools beyond UNC in energy and climate work. In the summer of 2004 she became a co-founding member of Energy Action Coalition, which she has been actively involved with since then. She co-chaired the Energy Action Coalition Steering Committee for 2 years and is Executive Director of the Southern Energy Network, which works with students in the Southeast on clean energy and climate initiatives as part of Energy Action Coalition's Campus Climate Challenge. In late fall 2005, she attended the UN Climate Negotiations in Montreal and helped start www.itsgettinghotinhere.org . In 2008, she joined the board of the Highlander Research and Education Center (www.highlandercenter.org).

2 Responses to “Desert Rock Coal Plant Update: stop tax credits for the plant!”

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1 Anna Rondon Feb 27th, 2007 at 12:06 pm

“Hello, my name is Anna Rondon and I am a citizen of the Navajo Nation and McKinley County. I would like to leave a message for Representative James Roger Madalena. I am writing to voice my/our opposition to House Bill 178 and Senate Bill 431 – the Navajo Nation Electric Facility Tax Credit bills. We oppose the Desert Rock Power Plant on the Navajo reservation due to the extremely harmful environmental and health effects it would have on both the Navajo and non-Navajo people in the surrounding community. The proposed coal fired power plant will also add to the greenhouse gas emissions that are a major cause of climate change and global warming, which affects us all.”

Thank you for your support!
2 Malcolm Cook Mar 12th, 2007 at 4:01 pm

Hello, my name is Malcolm Cook and I am with Navajo Nation based in AZI would like to leave a message for Representative James Roger Madalena. I am calling to voice my/our opposition to House Bill 178 and Senate Bill 431 – the Navajo Nation Electric Facility Tax Credit bills. We oppose the Desert Rock Power Plant on the Navajo reservation due to the extremely harmful environmental and health effects it would have on both the Navajo and non-Navajo people in the surrounding community. The proposed coal fired power plant will also add to the greenhouse gas emissions that are a major cause of climate change and global warming, which affects us all.”

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