WNC Climate Action Coalition
Confronting Our Local Climate Change Challenges
Next General Meeting:
Meeting November 2 Zoom again! 6:30
Speaker: Anna Alsobrook, Mountain True Watershed Outreach Coordinator
Anna facilitates volunteer water quality monitoring, citizen science programs, and restoration in the French Broad River watershed.
Anna’s passion for water issues started in college during a semester abroad in South Africa, where she experienced the connections between water quality and health. After earning a B.A. in Global Studies, she spent 2010-2012 as a Peace Corps Volunteer in rural Senegal. There, she promoted water conservation and sanitation practices. After her time abroad she returned to earn an M.S. in Geography with a minor in Watersheds. Since then, she’s been at Mountain True working with the French Broad Riverkeeper to make the river swimmable and fishable.
Climate justice: A long way to go
AP report: “Regulator reports new spills along Line 3 construction route” (AP, 8/10/2021) The Anishinaabe and other N. MN nations and tribes are still being brutalized, their land and water poisoned by Candadian company Enbridge: "MINNESOTA POLICE EXPECTED PIPELINE BUDGET BOOST TO FUND NEW WEAPONS: "The Minnesota police are getting weapons and other "benefits" from Enbridge. This isn't the only instance. See also https://earthjustice.org/brief/2021/oil-giant-enbridge-defies-line-5-pipeline-shutdown-order-faces-profit-seizures
"United Nations Issues Letter Regarding Violations of Anishinaabe Human Rights from Enbridge Line 3, Requests Measures from the United States" -- Sept. 2, 2021 https://www.stopline3.org/news/unitednations
Policies for Our Future
Among other things, this plan calls for a 70% reduction in power sector greenhouse gas emissions below 2005 levels by 2030 with carbon neutrality by 2050.
Stay up-to-date at: Climate Change & Clean Energy: Plans & Progress
President-Elect Joe Biden's
addresses housing, the automobile industry, energy production, transit and infrastructure. His plan is to build a more just economy at the same time we are creating a greener country.
Take a look!