time to have your say again - against coal exports!

[Karen Wagner]

RESERVE YOUR TESTIMONY SPOT SOON! The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality is holding a comment period until 5 pm on July 12, and public hearings in Hermiston and Portland from 8 am to 8 pm on Tuesday, July 9, about draft air quality ...permits for Ambre Energy’s proposed Coyote Island coal export terminal at the Port of Morrow in Boardman, Oregon. WIRT and allies are organizing 5:30 pm rallies of red-attired protesters outside both hearings, opposing the first potentially permitted Northwest coal port. Please read Riverkeeper’s suggested comments and questions and sign the petition linked here (http://columbiariverkeeper.org/featured/deq-protect-oregon-from-dirty-coal-export/), attend the hearings and rallies, and pre-register to speak out against dirty coal export and its increased river traffic, impacts on fish, wildlife, and recreation, and air and water pollution and subsequent climate change. The Morrow Pacific project needs a full environmental impact statement analysis!

 

http://ordeqpublichearing.eventbrite.com/#.

Oregon Rural Action will be car-pooling over with folks from other counties and organizations and would love to pick you up on the way!  Do let me know if you're interested, or there is someone you know who hates the idea of breathing coal dust during our long winter inversions, or having our beautiful clean wheat having to compete for barge or rail space with this nasty 20th-century climate-changing fossil fuel!  Spread the word, we'll pack the pews!

Karen  (Wagner)

Staff Director
Oregon Rural Action
541-975-2411; cell: 541-429-2688
ka...@oregonrural.org

office address: 1119 Washington St.
LaGrande, OR  97850

ORA brings people together to build strong rural communities. We promote social justice, agricultural and economic sustainability, and stewardship of our region's land, air and water. 

 

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