Update: I just got word that this event has been cancelled, due to rain.
Those opposed to Governor Jerry Brown's avid support of the environmentally destructive practice of fracking have been birddogging him at events where he appears for the past couple of years.
In the latest anti-fracking and pro-renewable energy action, a group of Los Angeles residents will greet Governor Brown when he arrives on Tuesday morning at the J.W. Marriot to deliver the keynote address at a U.S.-China Climate Summit hosted by Mayor Eric Garcetti in Downtown Los Angeles.
"Governor Brown’s participation in the talks comes just days after oil industry pressure led to the removal from SB350, the Governor’s climate change bill, language that would have cut petroleum use in the state 50% by 2030," said Alexandra Nagy of Food & Water Watch. "L.A. residents will urge the Governor to make good on his word – to use his executive authority to aggressively cut petroleum use in California – and to remind him that in order to be a real climate leader, he must keep all fossil fuels in the ground, beginning with a ban on all forms of fracking in order to transition California to a 100% renewable energy future."
"The U.S.-China Climate Summit comes during the crucial lead-up to the United Nations Climate Conference in Paris," she noted. "In addition to sending a message to Governor Brown, those gathered at the Marriott on Tuesday morning will call on Mayor Gacetti and other Los Angeles leaders to set an example by committing L.A. – the second-largest U.S. City – to put an end to all drilling and transition not to natural gas, but to 100% renewable energy."
The "Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground/100% Renewable Energy Rally" will take place on
Tuesday, September 15, 2015 at 8:00 a.m. at the J.W. Marriott, 900 West Olympic Boulevard, Downtown Los Angeles.
"The rally will feature puppet likenesses of Gov. Brown and others, windmills and colorful signs," said Nagy.
For more information about the rally, contact: Alexandra Nagy, Food & Water Watch, 818-633-0865.
The gutting of SB 350 and the defeat of other bills opposed by the oil industry and Governor Jerry Brown's support of the expansion of fracking in California show how Big Oil, along with agribusiness, the timber industry, developers and other corporate interests, has captured the regulatory apparatus in the state. For more information, go to: https://www.indybay.org/...
Unfortunately, fracking is just one of the many environmentally destructive policies of the Brown administration. Governor Brown has relentlessly pushed the salmon-killing Delta Tunnels under the Bay Delta Conservation Plan/California Water Fix; has promoted water policies that have driven salmon, steelhead, Delta smelt and other fish to the edge of extinction; presided over record water exports out of the Delta in 2011; backs the clearcutting of forests in the Sierra Nevada; and is a strong supporter of neo-liberal carbon trading policies that routinely promote environmentally ineffective and socially unjust projects across the globe.
For a complete discussion of Brown’s tainted environmental policies, go to http://www.truth-out.org/...
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