Comments on: Live Blogging: Awaiting a possible “reconsider” of the failed House vote to override Governor’s veto on coal plants

By: Adaline Cooper

Adaline Cooper — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:42:21 +0000

I just wanted to say that I found your site via Goolge and I am glad I did. Keep up the good work and I will make sure to bookmark you for when I have more free time away from the books. Thanks again!

By: G. Elliott/KansasWarming

G. Elliott/KansasWarming — Sat, 03 May 2008 05:18:41 +0000

Great job on keeping us up on the details.

I just watched Eileen Horn from your organization (Eastern Kansas location) get an award at the “Kanza” group of the Sierra Club in Johnson County, and also Chris Cardinal of GPACE (related group), for all their and your work on this issue.

I’ve been in a couple of meetings now with legislators and citizens, and it is clear that we have a lot of work still to do. (Some of them voted no, some yes, so we got to hear a number of perspectives.) What is clear is that they all think they are doing the best they can do, given the current situation and their particular level of understanding of the issues.

Of course most of us working this issue to have the coal plant rejected and recommend renewable energy resources have a substantially different view of the information the legislators should be working from.

That is where CEP is doing important work.

Just saw a terrific talk by Bob Berkebile (after Eileen and Chris got their awards along with several others). The presentation had slides and comments about how the climate dangers seem to be shaping up worse than the scientists’ projections, but also how we can successfully create communities that substantially reduce emissions (like work going on in Greensburg KS).

Keep up the good work, even if we win the “defeat” of this coal bill, we have just begun the work of creating an alternative plan. Berkebile pointed out that this may well be “the” defining decade in the future of humanity.

By: Chris G

Chris G — Fri, 02 May 2008 21:21:34 +0000

Thanks for posting the updates. I’ve been e-mailing my representative this week urging him to change his vote. It drives me absolutely crazy to see my rep voting based on lobbyists / money and not based on the opinions of the people who elected him.

By: Gary Anderson

Gary Anderson — Fri, 02 May 2008 19:08:48 +0000

Thanks to Maril and others who putting in the extra time to keep all of us informed on these crucial issues.

I sure appreciate the reports and I am sure I speak for many others.

Gary Anderson

By: JoAnn F

JoAnn F — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:02:16 +0000

Meril,

Thanks for the update — you hit all the important things I was wanting to know! I am talking with various folks about this that I encounter as I go about day and I am heartened to discover how many average people are up on this, and care deeply about stopping the construction of these coal plants….

I remind them all how important it is to contact their legislators NOW.

I think it is also important to connect the dots for everyone:

–The Aquilla fiasco in KC
–The 22 yo virgina woman you just died from Variant cjd (and the national media have been silent)
–the threatened lawsuit by a developer against KCMO for allowing its competitors to get a festival liquor license
– The confinement hog farms damaging communities and trying to legislate to stop others from objecting

People are FED UP with big monnied interests tyranizing communities — fighting this coal plant is a place to begin to take back our power.

Meril and CEP — we all thank you for what you are doing!