GO RENEWABLE WACO UPDATE
From Alan Northcutt:
It has been almost two years since we first introduced the climate crisis and the "Go Renewable Waco" campaign to the Waco City Council. Unfortunately, the City is extremely slow to change. Our efforts led to the City of Waco hiring climate science denier Bryan Shaw to develop a City energy plan, due out in September 2019. Obviously the plan is late. We wait for the plan's release; we plan to review it and then release a critique, or a People's Energy Plan.
The Sustainable Resource Practices Advisory Board released a set of recommendation on climate change, after the pressure of our campaign. But for the last 7 months the Board has done nothing further on decarbonization. As of today, no meeting is on the calendar for November. We will continue to apply pressure on the Board, demanding that it send more recommendations to the city council. But in all honesty, the October meeting demonstrated that they do NOT want to hear the voices of the public. The Board session had discussed nothing but recycling. I spoke at the end about the climate crisis and provided handouts. The Board would not allow me 15 seconds over 3 minutes to complete my points. And the Board session concluded after less than 1 hour. Very disappointing.
It has been almost two years since we first introduced the climate crisis and the "Go Renewable Waco" campaign to the Waco City Council. Unfortunately, the City is extremely slow to change. Our efforts led to the City of Waco hiring climate science denier Bryan Shaw to develop a City energy plan, due out in September 2019. Obviously the plan is late. We wait for the plan's release; we plan to review it and then release a critique, or a People's Energy Plan.
The Sustainable Resource Practices Advisory Board released a set of recommendation on climate change, after the pressure of our campaign. But for the last 7 months the Board has done nothing further on decarbonization. As of today, no meeting is on the calendar for November. We will continue to apply pressure on the Board, demanding that it send more recommendations to the city council. But in all honesty, the October meeting demonstrated that they do NOT want to hear the voices of the public. The Board session had discussed nothing but recycling. I spoke at the end about the climate crisis and provided handouts. The Board would not allow me 15 seconds over 3 minutes to complete my points. And the Board session concluded after less than 1 hour. Very disappointing.
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