Something worth considering when taking it all into account: It takes a LOT of water to "scrub" coal-fired plant stack columns. A whole lot of water that becomes horribly contaminated with all the shit that WOULD have gone into the air. Then you're left with a clean air power plant with millions of gallons of contaminated water.
Whatya gonna have - clean air or clean water??? So. Yeah - there's a LOTTA coal out there. Only there's just so much clean air / water.... -WaV On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Logan McNatt <lmcn...@austin.rr.com> wrote: > I've been donating to Clean Water Action since 2000, and they are still a > viable national organization with a Texas chapter based in Austin: > http://www.cleanwateraction.org/tx > The first thing that impressed me was they still have people going door to > door once a year, at least in south Austin where Gill and I live. > > Although Annalisa of GEAA said CWA does not get involved in local issues, > the issues on their website include: > "The Coming Crisis: Water Availability and Municipal Conservation Efforts > in Central Texas", > "Tell the Austin City Council To Support Clean Energy" > "Tell San Anonio's [and New Braunfels', and Georgetown's] Mayor and City > Council Not To Support Nuclear Energy" > "Increase Funding for State Parks" > "Get The Mercury Out Of Our Skies And Water" > "Support A Moratorium On New Permits For Coal-Burning Power Plants" > > Obviously they are an advocacy/lobbying group, so donations are not > tax-deductible. I agree with Stephan that it seems like there is a lot of > duplication of effort among the plethora of environmental groups, but many > of the smaller groups are devoted to a specific geographic area or issue, > and cannot actively lobby, unlike CWA. > > Logan > > ------------------------------ > George Veni wrote: > > *Clean Water Action has been working in the Austin and San Antonio areas > since at least the mid-1980s. They have worked to lobby government and > agencies, and work cooperatively with other green groups to prevent water > degradation. I haven’t seen them much in the past 10 years and don’t know if > the organization crashed and is now recovering or if it simply got diverted > to other projects in other areas. * > > *George * > > ** > ------------------------------ > ** > > *From:* bgillegi...@gmail.com > [mailto:bgillegi...@gmail.com<bgillegi...@gmail.com>] > *On Behalf Of *Gill Edigar > *Sent:* Monday, December 14, 2009 12:39 PM > *To:* texascavers@texascavers.com > *Subject:* [Texascavers] Change of Subject--Clean Water > > RE: Clean Water Action > > A few months ago a fellow came by the house representing an outfit called > 'Clean Water Action' ostensibly soliciting funds to promote awareness of > and promoting lobbying for clean water in some form or fashion. Since clean > water is a current topic of interest in South Austin and other parts of the > world it would be a good thing to hype if one wanted to make a few bucks > from folks with good environmental intentions but who haven't the time to > keep up with every environmental interest group that comes along. I gave > them a few bucks and signed their petition and filled out a personal data > card. A few days ago I got a phone call from them asking for a pretty good > slug of money. I asked for more information. A letter followed but with > nebulous details. > > Does anybody have any knowledge of these guys? Where do they fit in with > SOS, the City of Austin, the various water conservation districts that some > of our cavers work at? Can anybody cite me any references of their good > work? Etc, etc? If they're on the up-and-up I want to support them, but I've > never heard of them before and want a better idea of who they are and what > they really do. > --Ediger > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: > texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: > texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
