Speak Up On “National Bioenergy Truth Day” – Thursday, October 17

Speak Up On “Nation­al Bioen­er­gy Truth Day” – Thurs­day, Octo­ber 17 

Please take 5 min­utes of your time on Thurs­day, Octo­ber 17 to make phone calls to select mem­bers of the U.S. Sen­ate Com­mit­tee on Ener­gy and Nat­ur­al Resources (list­ed below with talk­ing points) to voice your oppo­si­tion to the lat­est piece of leg­is­la­tion that would open the door to dozens more air-pol­lut­ing, cli­mate-chang­ing, water-foul­ing, for­est-trash­ing bio­mass incinerators.

The bio­mass incin­er­a­tion indus­try has dubbed Thurs­day, Octo­ber 17, 2013 “Nation­al Bioen­er­gy Day.” Bio­mass ener­gy and log­ging cor­po­ra­tions will be hold­ing events in col­lab­o­ra­tion with trade groups, schools, and uni­ver­si­ties across the U.S. and Cana­da to “raise aware­ness about the ben­e­fits of bioen­er­gy” —  a.k.a. spew indus­try propaganda.

The Anti-Bio­mass Incin­er­a­tion Cam­paign has renamed Octo­ber 17 “Nation­al Bioen­er­gy Truth Day” so we can unite the voic­es of our nation­al net­work to expose the truth about the dire health and envi­ron­men­tal con­se­quences of bio­mass incineration.

Like the Nation­al For­est leg­is­la­tion recent­ly passed in the U.S. House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives, Sen­a­tor Ron Wyden’s (D‑OR) frame­work would kick off a free-for-all log­ging fest in Ore­gon and lead the way to a sim­i­lar log­ging binge in oth­er West­ern states, financed by your tax dol­lars, and part­ly sold under the guise of unsci­en­tif­ic “wild­fire pre­ven­tion” and pho­ny “restora­tion.” The bio­mass ener­gy indus­try is depen­dent on get­ting its hands on more forests to feed more hun­gry incin­er­a­tors, so let’s cut them off at the source!

Please con­tact Saman­tha Chir­il­lo at Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work today (saman­tha [at] ener­gyjus­tice [dot] net) with your pledge to call Con­gress on Thurs­day, Octo­ber 17, to ensure that sound sci­ence and com­mon sense are front and cen­ter on “Nation­al Bioen­er­gy Truth Day.” 

Mem­bers — U.S. Sen­ate Com­mit­tee on Ener­gy and Nat­ur­al Resources

Sen­a­tor Ron Wyden (OR) — (202) 224‑5244

Sen­a­tor Maria Cantwell (WA) — (202) 224‑3441 

Sen­a­tor Tam­my Bald­win (WI) — (202) 224‑5653

Sen­a­tor Mar­tin Hein­rich (NM) — (202) 224‑5521

Sen­a­tor Bri­an Schatz (HI) — (202) 224‑3934

TALKING POINTS:

• Bio­mass ener­gy is an air and cli­mate pol­luter, NOT “clean and green.”

• More log­ging will wors­en run­away cli­mate change, increase soil ero­sion and flood­ing, foul water­sheds, and kill fish and wildlife. 

• Back­coun­try log­ging can’t pro­tect homes from wild­fire, main­tain­ing defen­si­ble space 100–200 feet around homes can. 

• Stop the export of raw and chipped logs to keep jobs and forests at home.