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Boulder residents plan Monday rally against coal
DailyCamera ^ | May 29, 2009 | Laura Snider

Posted on 05/29/2009 9:14:53 PM PDT by george76

If Boulder is serious about meeting the goal it set in 2002 when city leaders agreed to meet the Kyoto Protocol -- reducing greenhouse gas emissions 7 percent below 1990 levels -- it's time for city officials to play hardball in their negotiations with Xcel Energy.

That's the message a group of business, community and environmental leaders hope to convey to the Boulder City Council on Monday when they meet at the Stazio Ballfields to listen to speakers rally the crowd from a pile of faux coal.

With the slender towers of the Valmont Coal Plant as a backdrop, the group plans to deliver an open letter to the city with a simple message: Failure to meet Kyoto is not an option.

Boulder does not own its own utility like many larger cities, including San Francisco and Seattle, so city leaders rarely have much control over where the electricity provided to Boulder comes from. Instead, the city has a franchise agreement with Xcel Energy.

Now, the city is in the process of renegotiating its agreement with Xcel...

The current contract with Xcel expires in August 2010.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycamera.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: acorn; boulder; climatechange; coal; energy; globalwarming; kyoto; kyotoprotocol; kyototreaty; prb; xcel
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To: george76

Not just nuts. Self-righteous and nuts.


41 posted on 05/29/2009 11:05:02 PM PDT by keepitreal (Obama brings change: an international crisis (terrorism) within 6 months)
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To: george76; Horusra; Delacon; CygnusXI; Entrepreneur; Defendingliberty; WL-law; Genesis defender; ...
Thanx !

 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

42 posted on 05/30/2009 4:04:39 AM PDT by steelyourfaith ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money" - Lady Thatcher)
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To: Crim
"The power plant should simply give them what they are asking for.....cut the power off for a couple days"

That's not fair to the (few) residents who don't support the program. I think that the supporters should stop breathing for a couple of days instead.

43 posted on 05/30/2009 4:15:19 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Global Warming Theory is extremely robust with respect to data. All observations confirm it)
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To: norwaypinesavage

I’m tired of playing fair. Put it to a referendum, if the majority wants a 7% reduction, break it down by precinct and rolling blackout the precincts that voted for it to achieve the 7%. Children need to learn consequences and Lib’s are children.


44 posted on 05/30/2009 4:21:54 AM PDT by Dosa26
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To: george76

Xcel should let them sit in the dark and freeze their asses off in the winter. I’m sure their minds will change.


45 posted on 05/30/2009 4:36:13 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left!)
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To: george76
Here's Micah Parkin back in 2007 on how we're all gonna die.

And - knock me over with a feather - here's ACORN too!

This report makes it clear that supporting half-measures, like voluntary or intensity-based emissions reductions, is like throwing a drowning man a tiny piece of a life jacket,” said Micah Walker Parkin of the Alliance for Affordable Energy...The fourteen organizations supporting Friday’s rally understand that solutions do exist...The rally is being sponsored by ACORN,

Micah Parkin

46 posted on 05/30/2009 4:36:16 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: henkster

I don’t care if they want to live in caves and wear sandals made from hemp and bark...but don’t dare they try to make me live like that as well.


47 posted on 05/30/2009 4:37:18 AM PDT by Eagle Eye (Defending RINOs is the same as defending Liberals.)
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To: Madame Dufarge
The fourteen organizations supporting Friday’s rally understand that solutions do exist...The rally is being sponsored by ACORN,

There's an excellent place to start saving emissions. Cut power and gas to these 14 organisations. Let them eat windmills.

48 posted on 05/30/2009 4:43:57 AM PDT by Dosa26
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To: Dosa26
There's an excellent place to start saving emissions

Exactly!

Let them take one for the team, lead by example.

49 posted on 05/30/2009 4:48:06 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: boxlunch
I have to agree. A recent experience with a Senior from a local high-school left me speechless and stunned. She was studying for her history exam at the reception desk one slow Sunday morning. I asked what the exam was about and she said the Bill of Rights. I halfheartedly gave her a single pop quizzie question. An easy one at that...What is the Second Amendment? Her response?

They didn't need to know them like that, just a general overview of them. In fact, they didn't even read them as they were only a general discussion chapter in her history book.

50 posted on 05/30/2009 4:55:30 AM PDT by EBH (I am not your comrade, nor sheeple, nor surf or slave; but a Freeman.)
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To: EBH

I ran into the same thing here in Florida. I was floored!

I spoke to some teachers about this and I was told they were to busy to really teach with all the behavioral problems and standardized tests they have to teach.

They teach “concepts”. Whatever the hell that is.


51 posted on 05/30/2009 8:23:12 AM PDT by I got the rope
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To: I got the rope
And that is exactly why we have the voters we have today! We can't have liberty if people don't understand or know what it is that makes them free, what their Rights are, who those Rights come from, and who is responsible for securing those Rights.

The question becomes ...how do we get back into the classroom? This is one prong of the barbecue fork. We've got to take back our schools and universities

or

We need to establish our own. And no I am not talking about just the home-school type establishment. I am talking about at all the levels of education.

52 posted on 05/30/2009 4:38:11 PM PDT by EBH (I am not your comrade, nor sheeple, nor surf or slave; but a Freeman.)
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To: george76; AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...
With the slender towers of the Valmont Coal Plant as a backdrop, the group plans to deliver an open letter to the city with a simple message: Failure to meet Kyoto is not an option. Boulder does not own its own utility like many larger cities, including San Francisco and Seattle, so city leaders rarely have much control over where the electricity provided to Boulder comes from. Instead, the city has a franchise agreement with Xcel Energy.
Guess again, "NGO". Thanks george76.
53 posted on 05/30/2009 6:29:33 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: george76

that communist encampment should be shipped to China and make sure ll the professors and students are included!


54 posted on 05/30/2009 6:32:49 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: Myrddin

“Ground burst or air burst? “

I vote for air burst, it will kill more!


55 posted on 05/30/2009 6:34:56 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: keepitreal
Yeah, Xcel is Boulder's only choice for an electricity provider, so Boulder doesn't have any particular extra negotiating cards during the next franchise contract renewal as proclaimed by the Boulder Camera, a notorious local leftist rag.

Maybe Boulder could burn some of that symbolic coal pile they're protesting around; I'm sure symbolic coal has much less carbon than real coal.

Boulderites are mostly just a big bunch of smug elitists.

The City is wall-to-wall SUVs along with a bunch of Priuses mixed in. They've walled themselves in with open-space, so that housing is unattainable for all but the wealthiest few. They've rejected almost all useful retail, boasting when they allowed a single big-box store (Home Depot), so they've driven their retail sales tax base into surrounding communities.

To solve their horrific downtown traffic and parking problem, they ripped up 100’s of parking places and replaced them with bike lanes, which of course almost no one uses. So now you see all those SUVs constantly circling and circling everywhere waiting for someone to vacate one of the few precious remaining spots.

They built their new library in the Boulder Creek flood plain. Not that it has very many actual books in it, as they spend most of their money there on everything but books.

They never plow their damn streets during the winter like most other Colorado communities, and the sheeple don't seem to mind enough to do anything about it. (Denver Mayor Bill McNichols lost re-election specifically for failure of the City of Denver to properly plow their streets after a major blizzard in 1982.)

So yeah, I think symbolic coal is the way to go for these folks.

56 posted on 05/30/2009 8:16:00 PM PDT by catnipman
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