scamperwillow
06-16-2014, 08:49 AM
IMPORTANT! PG&E tried this in a ballot measure which we defeated. NOW they have gone to the legislature! It’s crunch time for local clean energy in the California State Senate Energy Committee. Assembly Bill (AB) 2145 will be heard in that committee on Monday, June 23. Please call (BETTER) and/or email committee Chair Alex Padilla this week and urge him to lead his committee in rejecting AB 2145.
Here's a script you can use: "Hello - this is a message for Senator Padilla. Please vote NO on AB 2145 in the Senate Energy Committee. AB 2145 will limit consumer choice, reduce competition, thwart California’s environmental goals, infringe on local government decision-making power, diminish local communities’ ability to create local clean energy jobs, and destroy the future of Community Choice energy in California. Please vote NO!" You can put it in an email too but a call is better!
Alex Padilla email: [email protected]
On Twitter: @SenAlexPadilla
Or his assistant: [email protected]
Phone: 916-651-4020
AB 2145 threatens all Community Choice local clean energy programs in California. The large corporate utilities (PG&E, SCE, and SDG&E) are once again attempting to crush competition.
If enacted, AB 2145 will:
• Limit consumer choice
• Reduce competition
• Thwart California’s environmental goals
• Infringe on local government decision-making power
• Diminish local communities’ ability to create local clean energy jobs
• Destroy the future of Community Choice energy in California.
AB 2145 will change the rules to make it impossible to establish viable Community Choice energy programs, thus cementing the utility monopolies. Community Choice energy is one of the most powerful solutions available to local governments to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. AB 2145 represents a backward step for California’s leadership. Please don’t let utilities stamp it out.
Amazingly this sailed through the Assembly because of such lobbying from the big bucks utilities. It is really important to kill it NOW in the energy Committee before it gets to the Senate floor! Make that call!
Here's a script you can use: "Hello - this is a message for Senator Padilla. Please vote NO on AB 2145 in the Senate Energy Committee. AB 2145 will limit consumer choice, reduce competition, thwart California’s environmental goals, infringe on local government decision-making power, diminish local communities’ ability to create local clean energy jobs, and destroy the future of Community Choice energy in California. Please vote NO!" You can put it in an email too but a call is better!
Alex Padilla email: [email protected]
On Twitter: @SenAlexPadilla
Or his assistant: [email protected]
Phone: 916-651-4020
AB 2145 threatens all Community Choice local clean energy programs in California. The large corporate utilities (PG&E, SCE, and SDG&E) are once again attempting to crush competition.
If enacted, AB 2145 will:
• Limit consumer choice
• Reduce competition
• Thwart California’s environmental goals
• Infringe on local government decision-making power
• Diminish local communities’ ability to create local clean energy jobs
• Destroy the future of Community Choice energy in California.
AB 2145 will change the rules to make it impossible to establish viable Community Choice energy programs, thus cementing the utility monopolies. Community Choice energy is one of the most powerful solutions available to local governments to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. AB 2145 represents a backward step for California’s leadership. Please don’t let utilities stamp it out.
Amazingly this sailed through the Assembly because of such lobbying from the big bucks utilities. It is really important to kill it NOW in the energy Committee before it gets to the Senate floor! Make that call!