A Workshop For Coal Energy Activists
April 3, 2004 – Holiday Inn Milwaukee-City Centre
The Midwest Regional Conservation Committee (MRCC) of the Sierra Club has been working to educate activists with its Coal Burning Power Plant Campaign over the past three years. Coal-burning, electric-generating plants are a serious problem in the Midwest. They have great social and environmental costs. They require large expenditures of capital, they foul our air and water, and they pose a grave threat to human health.
On April 3, 2004, the MRCC will hold a workshop focusing on environmental laws and regulations of interest to activists who are working to oppose coal burning power plants. Our goal is to provide specific hands-on information for persons actively engaged in working on coal plant issues, and to provide participants with a network of activist and resource contacts. Sierra Club activists are invited to attend, and non-Sierra Club activists are welcome as well.
A TENTATIVE AGENDA IS BELOW. You will note it includes an overview of needed environmental permits, permitting procedures, emission controls, technology issues, health issues, legal considerations, coalition building, and examples of successful campaigns that are countering coal plant pollution. The workshop will address Clean Air Act requirements, BACT Analysis, NOX and Ozone Transport, Mercury controls, NEPA, and the ESA. Developing a case for litigation will be addressed, as well as message development to generate public support.
MEETING ARRANGEMENTS:
Holiday Inn Milwaukee - City Centre
611 West Wisconsin Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53203
ph. 414-273-2950, fax 414-273-7662
Please make your own room
arrangements if you are staying overnight. Specify that you are with the Sierra Club MRCC for the special rate.
Sat. morn. coffee and rolls will be provided, Sat. lunch and Sat. dinner are included in the registration fee.
NOTE: $20. REGISTRATION FEE WILL BE APPLIED TOWARDS COST OF MEALS AND
MEETING ROOM. (MRCC will pay balance) Some scholarship funds are available to participants. Contact Barb Frank if you need assistance.
Contact
Wallace McMullen,
mcmulw@socket.net, tel. 573-636-6067(h),
Barbara Frank,
bdfrank@centurytel.net, 608-788-3914, or
Eric
Uram, eric.uram@sierraclub.org, 608-257-3513, for more information.
| THE STRUGGLE FOR CLEAN POWER |
| Draft AGENDA | ||
| 9:00 AM | Welcome | Barb Frank |
| 9:05 AM | Why We Oppose Coal Burning Power Plants | Wallace |
| 9:15 AM | Overview of Environmental Permits Needed for A Power Plant, and the Laws on which they are based | John Blair |
| Break about 10:15 | Details on Clean Water Permits: 404/401 Permits and How to Fight Them; NPDES Permits; How to Use the Nat. Environmental Policy Act | Robert Ukeiley; Alex Sagady, Bruce Nilles as Team of Presenters |
| Lunch About 12; Resume at 1 PM | Clean Air Act Issues: Technology We Should Fight For and Why; How to approach the Permitting Authority; How To Understand and Use the BACT Analysis; | |
| Ozone Transport Issues, air modeling, fine particulates | ||
| Hazardous Air Pollutants, 112(g) Permits and Mercury Control Issues | Matt Little and Team of Presenters | |
| Endangered Species Act; Landfill Waste Issues | ||
| Building a case for litigation | ||
| 3:00 PM | Break | |
| 3:15 PM | Making the Case about Serious Health Impacts: A Guided Tour of Resources | Eric Uram |
| 4:00 PM | Winning Hearts and Minds of the Public: How It's Been Done, and What to Avoid | Panel |
| 5:00 PM | Adjourn for R & R | |
| 6:00 PM | Dinner & Speaker on Policy Choices Angela Ledford, Clear The Air | A. Ledford |
| Feb. 14, 2004 |