The Replace Hazelwood campaign has been really picking up steam
and it’s been fantastic to see so many people get behind it.
Climate action groups are door knocking, lots of media, reports, letter boxing and many many letters to the editor...well done to all involved. Now we just need to keep it moving.
Here are three steps...
Today we’re launching the Replace Hazelwood website – check it out! www.replacehazelwood.org.au
This is intended as a hub for all groups who are supporting the ask to Replace Hazelwood with clean energy by 2012. It doesn’t lock any of those groups into any particular solution, or to any other parts of the campaign or actions that may arise.
If your group would like to sign onto the website, please let us know and we’ll add you on the contacts page. Any climate action group who wants to be listed as supporting the campaign is very welcome...the more the merrier.
You Tube video
As a part of this, EV has been working with some volunteers to develop a new video to communicate around the campaign...awesome stuff, and thanks a mill to volunteers Andrew (from Climate Action Moreland and The Vagabond) and Bec for all of their hard work. It's on the website or you can see it in high definition glory on youtube.
Check it out
Can you help? The website and the youtube clip will only be a success if we can get them out there. Please forward these links out through your networks to help build support for the campaign.
Billboard
The first of what we hope will be a number of billboards across Melbourne will be unveiled today on the cnr of Hoddle and Roseneath St’s . There will be a photo up on the website soon. The more resources go into the campaign the more billboards we can get up before the election.
So three things we love you to do today
1. Email the links through your networks
2. List them on your facebook status (and join us on Facebook while you’re at it!)
3. Twitter them using the #replacehazelwood or find us @replacehzlwood
In the next couple of day’s we’ll also have button that you can load onto your websites to link through to the Replace Hazelwood website... will send it out when we’ve got it.
Of course now we have the website you can follow the links through to other actions such as signing up for door knocking and letter boxing please check it out too.
Exciting times, together we will make big impact!
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Switch Off Hazelwood. Switch On Renewables
Dear Friends
I’ve created an online petition aimed at convincing the Victorian State Government to decommission the Hazelwood power station.
Here’s the link: http://www.change.org/petitions/view/switch_off_hazelwood_switch_on_rene...
Cheers, Graham Clark.
don't boycott BP, boycott fossil fuel
The underwater oil gusher off Louisiana is a catastrophe but it's not the greatest environmental disaster ever in North America. That is the ongoing burning of millions of tonnes of fossil fuels every year which is changing the composition of the atmosphere.
We can blame BP for this current disaster, but there is no good oil company. Extracting and burning fossil fuels is a dirty business that makes huge profits at the expense of the environment and people, and disastrous environmental outcomes are an inevitable part of the package.
Anger and protests about BP don't mean much unless we back it up with positive action. So drive less, avoid plastic, buy Green Power, and support the Replace Hazelwood Campaign.
When does it become more
When does it become more profitable NOT to operate an existing coal plant?
Forwarded from Natural Capitalism Solutions, eLert May 2010 - Volume 13, by chrisg
This was the breakfast conversation topic between Roger Clark, of the Grand Canyon Trust, Bob Gough of Intertribal COUP, and Natural Capitalism's Senior Consultant, Paul Sheldon one fall morning in Boulder.
At Roger's suggestion, Natural Capitalism applied for and received a grant from the Western Clean Energy Campaign, to explore the conditions that would have to occur for it to become more profitable to invest in efficiency and renewable energy than to operate an existing coal plant.
The resulting formula looked something like this:
If the price of carbon and renewable energy credits exceeds $35/ ton of CO2 equivalent; and if the value of the water rights owned or controlled by the coal plant exceeds $650/ acre-foot of water; and if the savings from not buying coal for fuel exceeds $2.40/ million BTU’s, then investing in various combinations of efficiency improvements and renewable energy technologies may be more profitable than operating the existing coal plant.
To reach this conclusion, Natural Capitalism’s staff and interns compared three different scenarios, using an Excel-based spreadsheet calculator designed and developed by Paul Sheldon, Emily Evans, and Nick Sterling. Low, medium, and high assumptions were used, basing the calculations on the illustrative example of Navajo Generating Station in Page, Arizona, near the Navajo Nation. When the calculations were complete, the result was that investing in efficiency and renewable energy would create and sustain more jobs, while returning $157.6 million more revenue than operating the coal plant.
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