And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 23:38:55 EDT Subject: Please sign-on to Shut down the Mohave Generating Station To the Big Mountain list, This is a Sign-on letter for organizations that Action Resource Center (ARC) has been circulating to shut down the Mohave Generating Station. Please indicate if your organization wishes to sign-on and send your endorsement to Kim at ARC, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This sign-on will be presented at a meeting with DWP on Friday, August 13, 1996. Thank you for your support, Marsha Monestersky Consultant to Sovereign Dineh Nation Sign On Letter to Shut Down the Mohave Generating Station We, the undersigned, demand that the coal-fired Mohave Generating Station (MGS) in Laughlin, NV be immediately shut down for the following reasons: 1 - MGS is one of the largest emitters of global warming gases in North America; 2 - MGS is also the largest unregulated source of Sulfur Dioxide emissions in the United States. It has no scrubbers and is currently being sued by the Grand Canyon Trust and the Grand Canyon Chapter of the Sierra Club for violations of the Clean Air Act. MGS is also under investigation for violations of the public health and clean air standards by the EPA. 3 - MGS is solely fueled by Peabody Western Coal Company's Black Mesa coal mine, via a 273-mile long slurry line. The pipeline uses 3 million gallons of pristine water everyday, depleting the N-aquifer. The pipeline is draining the wells of the Dineh (Navajo) and Hopi tribes on Black Mesa and endangers the water supply of all people. The slurry line is the only one of its kind in the world. It transports a 50/50 mix of water and crushed coal. The coal-water mix increases the air pollution impact of the plant; 4 - MGS is impacting not only the local communities where the coal is extracted, processed and burned, but also a much larger community that is impacted by the air pollution, as well as our precious national treasure, the Grand Canyon. The EPA recently released a report, citing MGS as one of the single largest contributors to the decreased visibility over the Grand Canyon; 5 - Peabody's coal, part of which feeds the MGS, is one of the underlying reasons for the forced relocation of the Western Dineh, living on the Hopi Partition Land. For all of the reasons outlined above, we, the undersigned, have determined that the MGS is a threat to public health, the environment and the human rights of the Dineh. Groups so far signed on National Lawyers guild - LA Chapter Project Underground Sovereign Dineh Nation Action Resource Center Sol Communications Ballona Valley Preservation League Office of the Americas - Theresa and Blasé Bonpane Project Mahe American Lands Alliance Rainforest Action Network David Brower - Earth Island Action Group - Earth Island Institute Ed Begley Jr. ______________________________________ A C T I O N R E S O U R C E C E N T E R Box 2104, Venice, CA 90294 310.396.3254 (voice) * 310.392.9965 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.arcweb.org Reprinted under the Fair Use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html doctrine of international copyright law. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ UPDATES: CAMP JUSTICE http://shell.webbernet.net/~ishgooda/oglala/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
