Clean Up Coal Pollution / Support Renewable Energy
Stop New Coal in 2008
Three main ways you can help stop the Big Stone II coal-fired power plant this January:
- Raise a crowd and a ruckus!
- Attend the January 10th Public Hearing in Ortonville, MN at 5:00pm — plan to attend, or both attend and testify. Be part of the exciting press conference outside the hearing! At the Ortonville Community Center, 200 Monroe Avenue
- Attend the January 23rd Evidentiary Hearing in St. Paul. Bring a friend or a group! We should pack the house to send a message to the PUC and the media!
- Calling clean energy heroes! Free Pizza!
Join us for a phone action night to call Sierra Club members and invite them to the public hearings on Big Stone II:- Thursday, January 3rd 6:30pm
- Thursday, January 8th 6:30pm
Can't make it these nights? Email Cesia to arrange another time you can help: . - The pen is mightier than the sword — these folks need to hear from YOU!
- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION — Write a letter to the PUC — public comments must be received by January 17th:
Honorable Steve M. Mihalchick,
Minnesota Office of Administrative Hearings,
P.O. Box 64620,
St. Paul, MN 55164-0620
Contact Cesia for sample talking points. 612-659-9124 ext. 310 - YOUR UTILITY COMPANY — Find out if your electric utility company plans to buy power from Big Stone II. Write and call them and ask them to invest in clean alternatives - not new dirty coal.
- GOVERNOR PAWLENTY — Send a letter to Governor Pawlenty — tell him that you applaud his message for global warming solutions, and that we need his leadership to make MN a state free of new, imported coal-fired power
- LETTER TO THE EDITOR - STAR TRIBUNE — write a letter to the editor of the Star Tribune and/or your local paper highlighting the need for clean energy solutions in 2008, not to build new coal plants like Big Stone II. Submit it online at: http://mpls.startribune.com/dynamic/feedback/form.php?opinion=1.
- PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION — Write a letter to the PUC — public comments must be received by January 17th:
Big Stone II Coal Plant Expansion
The proposed Big Stone II Coal Plant is an enormous expansion of an existing coal plant just over the border in South Dakota that will provide Minnesota with more power. Expanding this coal plant will mean less resources for clean, renewable energy, and that more Minnesota dollars will go to dirty, polluting coal for years to come. » More on the Big Stone II coal plant expansion proposal…
Facts on Coal Pollution
- Coal Emissions factsheet
- EPA studies: Minorities, poor suffer most from pollution (and an interview with David Pace, the reporter who wrote the story
If you're interested in finding out more or getting involved in the Sierra Club's campaign to clean up dirty coal and move towards clean energy alternatives, e-mail Cesia Kearns at or phone 612-659-9124.