| | If any of you are interested, here is a way for you to get involved in
something meaningful locally. There will be a protest against Vectren
in regards to coal-burning power plants. It will take place on April 14
at 4:00pm at the Four Freedom's Monument in downtown Evansville. Here
is the story from the Evansville Courier and Press.
A local
environmental watchdog group has planned a rally at the riverfront to
demand that Vectren stop building coal plants in Southern Indiana.
Evansville's Step It Up action is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. April 14
at the Four Freedoms Monument. The rally will be followed by a march
down Riverside Drive to Vectren Headquarters, according to Valley Watch.
Those who would like to make signs and posters for the rally should meet at 2 p.m. at Penny Lane Coffeehouse.
According to Valley Watch:
- Indiana is the largest emitter of carbon dioxide from coal burning in
the nation, and carbon dioxide is the principal gas known to cause
global warming.
- Tri-State residents live among the highest concentration of coal-fired power plants in the world.
- There are 17 coal plants within a 62-mile radius of Evansville,
including Duke Energy's Gibson Station, the largest coal-fired plant in
the United States.
- Most of the coal-burning plants in Southern Indiana provide electricity to out-of-state customers.
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If you're interested, you should show up. My wife and I should be there. Look for us.
Also, don't forget to come out and hear George Lucius Salton, the
Holocaust Survivor, on that same day at 1:00pm at Oakland City
University in the Cornwell-Reed Building in the Bernard Recital Hall.
There will be a reception after the event where you can meet him
face-to-face. |
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