TurnNCblue's blog
Do we need a new coal plant in NC?
Submitted by TurnNCblue on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 7:44am.Help.
Duke Energy is building a new coal plant in North Carolina – in a time in which solving global warming is the most urgent issue to solve. We can request public hearings across the state to re examine the mercury levels and other pollutants.
What is NC doing to improve health care access?
Submitted by TurnNCblue on Mon, 06/23/2008 - 9:42pm.Apparently, the national conference of mayors took a position on single payer. this is further evidence that the tides are turning.
check this outL
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/23/204114/701/153/540901
Kudos to Pricey Harrison
Submitted by TurnNCblue on Sat, 05/31/2008 - 8:09am.The N&O has a story that Representative Harrison is proposing a bill to outlaw out of state coal for NC coal plants.
Updated by James with link to the N&O story.
Read DK "Coal is Dirty"
Submitted by TurnNCblue on Fri, 05/23/2008 - 6:37am.Have we learned everything we need to know about the truth about coal? today on Daily Koss they have assembled gobs of reports about what the issues are about COAL
Help the next Governor candidates learn about the death penalty moratorium
Submitted by TurnNCblue on Tue, 05/06/2008 - 8:16pm.The NC Governor's race is crucial to criminal justice politics in
> North Carolina since the elected Governor has the power to issue
> clemency when an execution is scheduled, grant a pardon to a
> wrongfully convicted exoneree and he/she can ultimately declare an
> official moratorium on executions. Regardless of who wins the NC
> Governor's races tomorrow in either party, please call each winner
> and say the following:
Death Penalty
Submitted by TurnNCblue on Sun, 02/03/2008 - 10:15pm.So what do our NC candidates say is their positions on the Death Penalty
Who supports the moratorium?
Who says death penalty is helping keep our prison population down>?
Justice at Smithfield
Submitted by TurnNCblue on Wed, 12/05/2007 - 10:14pm.Next Monday is International Human Rights Day, and Justice@Smithfield supporters plan to commemorate by drawing attention to human rights abuses at Smithfield's Tar Heel Plant. Working conditions at the plant rank among the most brutal in the United States, and, in years past, were even profiled by the international watchdog Human Rights Watch.
Call in to stop Cliffside Coal Plant Expansion Thursday Nov. 15
Submitted by TurnNCblue on Wed, 11/14/2007 - 8:47pm.On November 15th, make your voice heard by calling and telling Governor Easley and Jim Rogers that renewable energy is the future of NC and not "clean coal." Why? Because the future of North Carolina depends on it.
Contact the Governor's Office:
Phone: 1-800-662-7952 valid in North Carolina only; (919)733-4240, or (919)733-5811
Fax: (919)715-3175 or (919)733-2120
Email: governor@ncmail.net
Contact Duke Energy Office:
Phone: (704) 594-6200 (Corporate Office)
Jim Rogers Direct Line: (704) 382-1087
Email: tcwillia@duke-energy.com (Tom Williams, Policy/Energy Efficiency/Environmental Media Relations)
Fax: 704-382-0199
President Cheney
Submitted by TurnNCblue on Sat, 07/21/2007 - 10:17pm.I was worried all day that no one was watching cheney.
Can we save the Renewable Energy Bill? Help S B 3
Submitted by TurnNCblue on Sat, 07/21/2007 - 7:32am.THREATS TO -- Senate Bill 3, Promote Renewable Energy/Baseload Generation, has been referred to the House Energy and Energy Efficiency Comm. We should support this legislation which increases the use of renewable sources of energy, which is how S 3 started out. However,because it now also encourages the use of fossil fuels...
