Help us in Alaska.
The beautiful Matanuska Susitna valleys of southcentral Alaska is under attack. Please help us stop the construction of a coal fire electrical plant. MEA, a electrical distribution cooperative, started in the early 1950's by our parents as a way to distribute electricity purchased rrom the Ekluta Hydro plant (a clean plant which our fathers built) has been taken over by thugs. They ignore the cooperative principals, the bylaws, the rights of us member-owners and have allinged themselves with the coal mining interests to force on us (without a vote) a dirty coal powered plant that will polute our sweet clean air, poison our clean water and our rich soil. They use strong arm tactics, demeaning words, hide their decisions, do not disclose their research and reports, resfuse to allow the member owners to review the environmental or economice forcast of this deviation from districution electricity to creating electricity (via a coal plant). They have usurped our rights as member owners. Please help us stop them.
Coal Plant
I have just heard about the struggle against the coal plant they want to build in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough in Alaska. I am from Great Falls, Montana. We are fighting a coal plant here. It sounds like the people up in Alaska are encountering the indentical tactics we are here -- no vote, no information, and promises that modern coal plants are so much "cleaner" than they used to be. I am a member of a grassroots organization called Citizens for Clean Energy (CCE) and we are having a measure of success against the plant. If we are victorious in our struggle it will help the people in Alaska and all over the country. We have sued over the air quality permit on the basis that it does not address carbon dioxide, which the Supreme Court recently has determined is a pollutant that should be monitored and controlled. There are other issues as well. We have a website (www.cce-mt.org) that has a great deal of information. I am interested in finding out if people have organized against the coal plant in Alaska, and to encourage them in their struggle. It is possible to stop these things.