[NukeNet] Request to all from The Florida Alliance for a Clean Environment, Petition.

Thu Jul 5 14:10:52 EDT 2007

Sorry for cross posting. 
Dear Friends, 
You are receiving this request from The Florida Alliance  for a Clean 
Environment to sign our petition to Florida Governor Charlie Crist,  because you or 
your organization either signed our 2006 petition to former  Florida Governor 
Jeb Bush, his Cabinet and the Florida Legislature; or because I  have become 
aware of your environmental advocacy by meeting you or communicating  with you 
through the internet as a result of more recent efforts by utilities to  expand 
the use of polluting energy technologies into new areas of Florida and  
elsewhere.   
The Florida Alliance for a Clean Environment’s 2006 petition focused on  
opposing those aspects of Florida Senate Energy Bill 888 that encouraged  
incineration of municipal solid waste. We also opposed other Florida laws that favored 
 incineration at the expense of recycling. We objected then, as we do now, to 
the  categorization of municipal solid waste as a renewable resource. 
We've advocated since the mid eighties, as now, for programs and  practices 
that eliminate wastefulness and manage discarded resources in an  
environmentally sustainable way. We support reduce, reuse, recycle, plan and  design 
strategies, that include producer responsibility programs.  
This year, 2007, our advocacy for efficiency and clean, truly renewable  
energy technologies, as well as efficient management of resources overall, has  
drawn us further into the energy policy discussion. 
Efficiency and clean energy technologies are slipping into the background  as 
more lucrative dirty energy deals are being promoted. As Florida moves  
forward toward developing a new State Energy Plan, the policy makers are  
considering, and being encouraged to adopt; integrated gasification combined  cycle 
(IGCC) coal burning technology, an unproven, expensive technology;  nuclear, gas 
and municipal solid waste (MSW) burning.  
There are many, many efficiency opportunities and clean energy  applications 
that can be beneficially integrated into a new energy plan for  Florida but 
there is an especially heavy promotion of what is erroneously  referred to as “
clean coal” (IGCC), clean CO 2 free nuclear and “renewable”  energy from MSW 
burners. Gas Burners have their issues as well. 
We need you to stand with us so we can continue to  challenge those 
advocating for polluting technologies. As in 2006, with so many  of you locally in 
southwest Florida, statewide and nationally as well as our  Global Alliance for 
Incineration Alternatives (GAIA) friends from all over the  world, backing us we 
can again have an impact.   
The petition below represents a continuation of The  Florida Alliance for a 
Clean Environment’s previous efforts. It also serves to  communicate our call 
for a holistic, environmentally appropriate approach to the  design of Florida’
s energy plan and resource management  policies and strategies.      
I ask that you read and consider signing the petition. It will be sent  under 
the banner of the Florida Alliance for a Clean Environment to The  Honorable 
Governor Charlie Crist, his Cabinet, Florida Legislators, Other Policy  
Makers, and the Citizen Volunteers that make up the membership of the Florida  
Century Commission for a Sustainable Florida the newly formed Florida Energy  
Commission and their Sub-Committees. 
If you agree with the positions we advocate please reply directly to the 
_Alliance4CleanFl at aol.com_ (mailto:Alliance4CleanFl at aol.com)   e-mail address 
indicating that you are standing with us in this year’s effort.  We will be 
accepting signatures until mid August, but would like to have as many  as possible 
by July 8th., this Sunday, for next week’s Florida energy  summit.  
Thank You,  
For The Florida Alliance for a Clean  Environment 
Bob Krasowski 
President, project coordinator, 
1086  Michigan Ave, Naples  Fl. 34103 
239-963-6285,  
Alliance4CleanFl at aol.com  
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THE PETITION 
To the Honorable Governor Charlie  Crist,   
Governor of the State of Florida, 
Tallahassee,  Florida 
Governor Crist,                                                               

Et all c, 
We, the undersigned, stand with the Florida Alliance for a Clean  Environment 
in support of their advocacy for 1) the creation of individual  energy option 
profiles that will make clear the characteristics of all  efficiency, energy, 
fuel and transportation options available to the People of  Florida, 2) the 
performance of a comparative analysis of all profiled options 3)  the 
establishment of a hierarchy of options 4) the development of an action  plan, based on 
the hierarchy, for implementation as the new Florida State Energy  Plan and 
5) a temporary moratorium on the building of any new or expansion of  existing 
polluting power generating facilities. 
We call for serious and equal consideration of all efficiency  opportunities, 
decentralized power strategies and clean truly renewable energy  generating 
options. A complete analysis, evaluation and discussion of cap and  trade, 
carbon fees, and energy code standards should work through this  evaluation 
process as well. 
It is our hope, Governor Crist, that you the Peoples’ Governor, along  with 
your dynamic Cabinet members, Legislators, Public Service Commission,  
Department of Environmental Protection, other policy or rule makers and those  
participating on behalf of the State of Florida as members of the Century  Commission 
for a Sustainable Florida, The Florida Energy Commission and their  Sub 
Committees will insist that the highest level of scientific analytical  integrity 
and public participation be maintained throughout this process. We are  aware 
of the many good efforts made to date by you and many of your associates.  We 
ask that you employ the processes we are advocating during the analysis of  all 
energy options available.  
We advocate: 
1) The creation of a complete profile of each and  every energy saving or 
energy producing option available to the People of the  State of Florida.  These 
analytical profiles must provide  “cradle to grave” detailed information on 
the energy input/output ratio,  cost/benefit analysis, full cost accounting (to 
include disposal or recycling of  byproducts and the product itself), health 
and environmental impact analysis for  all options. The profile would give 
detailed information from the point where  the fuel for any given technology or 
the materials for any given energy related  product are extracted to the point 
where the power is created or saved. Building  design, lighting, appliances; 
subterranean temperature exchange systems, solar,  wind, ocean current, other 
clean renewables;  transportation options and fuels; coal  (of any technology), 
Mixed Municipal Solid Waste to Energy burners (of any  type), Nuclear, or Gas 
(synthetic or natural), represent some of the options to  be profiled.    
2) The performance of a thorough comparative analysis  of all the profiled 
options, providing for a clear understanding of the unique  characteristics of 
each option. This will allow for a determination to be  made as to the various 
options relative values in terms of costs/ benefits,  effectiveness, 
efficiencies, health and environmental impacts, etcetera. 
3) The establishment of a hierarchal listing of the  options, putting the 
most efficient, least polluting first then listing the  clean truly renewable 
energy generating options next and so  on. 
4) The development of an action plan to schedule the implementation of  each 
option as listed on the hierarchy list, most efficient, least polluting  
first, each option being fully implemented to the greatest degree possible  before 
moving on to the next until there is no further need to implement those  
remaining. 
5) The establishment of a temporary moratorium on the construction of  any 
new or expanded polluting power generating facility. This would stand  until the 
aforementioned processes have been carried out and it is determined  how the 
State will proceed.  
Respectfully, 
For The Florida Alliance for a Clean  Environment 
Bob Krasowski 
President, Project coordinator, 
_Alliance4Cleanfl at aol.com_ (mailto:Alliance4Cleanfl at aol.com) 239-963-6285

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