Postcards are available now for you to write and send to the LIPA board!
Let LIPA know you are in favor of off shore wind! We will have these at all events for the public to sign!!!
We have plenty, but they need to get to LIPA ASAP to make an impact and let them know the public supports OSW instead of new fossil fuels!!
We are so excited to invite you to the Long Island Premiere of How to Let Go of the World and Love All The Things Climate Can’t Change, from Oscar Nominated director Josh Fox (GASLAND)..
We will be promoting and joining the event and follow the movie with a discussion from All Our Energy’s own Off Shore Wind Team Leader Matthew Kearns!
UNSHAKEABLE IMAGES! THIS FILM WILL MAKE YOU WANT TO BE THE CHANGE- Daily Journal
Date: Thursday April 21, 2016 7:30pm
Where: CINEMA ARTS CENTRE
AD: 423 Park Avenue Huntington NY 11743
WE highly recommend buying tickets in advance from Cinema Arts Centre here
Please share the flyer above and the facebook event here:
https://www.facebook.com/
Josh Fox continues in his deeply personal style, investigating climate change – the greatest threat our world has ever known. Traveling to 12 countries on 6 continents, the film acknowledges that it may be too late to stop some of the worst consequences and asks, what is it that climate change can’t destroy? What is so deep within us that no calamity can take it away? www.howtoletgomovie.com/
We hope you’ll join us for this event! Come and bring YOUR answer what YOU’RE fighting for that climate can’t change!
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced the official start of the process to create the wind farm area 11 miles south of our shores at Long Beach
Read Long Beach Herald article here: Feds identify offshore wind farm site
Want to see what it might look like from the beach? Click here
All Our Energy will be advocating 100% FOR IT and advocating it be done to the highest environmental, wildlife, and shared-use standards possible for best outcomes. As residents of a 100 mile long island that is very vulnerable to climate impacts, we cannot afford to stay on the fossil fuels driving that climate change. The impacts of off shore wind would be minute, compared to more or continued dirty energy use.
If you have any questions about it, please contact us and we will address your concerns or find out the answers you seek.
Today we rallied at the Long Island Power Authority Trustee meeting to tell them “Plug Me In To Off Shore Wind!”
All Our Energy were part of over 100 activists and demonstrators at this week’s LIPA Board meeting.
LIPA Chairman Suozzi asked, and not a single person in the room was against developing off shore wind. I spoke in favor of moving forward with off shore wind right now for the power they need to generate for the South Fork of LI. For the same price we can have clean energy with battery storage from an off shore wind farm 30 miles from Montauk, or build new fossil fuel power plants and gas pipelines to feed them across the island, including sensitive nature areas. Why would we not move into the renewable energy future??
read about it here:
Dozens protest to approve offshore LI wind turbines
VIDEO: Dozens rally for LIPA approval of offshore wind turbines
Plus about the Off Shore Wind Forum from last week in East Hampton
http://mobile.easthamptonstar.
Newsday published my (highly abbreviated) letter about Suffolk County’s single use plastic bag proposal this week.
http://www.newsday.com/opinion/letters/letter-newsday-uses-plastic-bags-too-1.11576235
We are pushing for similar action in Long Beach, to eliminate single use plastic bag pollution. Thank you for your support.
Can you display that support with one of our bumper stickers?? this show of support will help your neighbors and everyone become aware and transform Long Beach to a reusable bag culture, saving our waterways from tens of thousands of plastic bag assaults and helping keep our streets clean.
Please save the date for our next showing of Bag It at Bridgeworks on April 1!
We must expand and show the widespread public support (that’s YOU) that there is for this, and make this a dinner table topic to transition Long Beach to a reusable bag culture!Can you show your support and to help advocate with us?
For this date and others upcoming, we will need volunteers, and happy moviegoers alike. Please bring your friends, kids, everyone and tell and share with everyone you know. invite them right now at the event link here: https://www.facebook.com/
If you haven’t already, Please like and share the campaign’s Facebook page
With your help, we will be unstoppable!!
Join me, Sierra Club, over 20 supporting groups, a league of volunteers, and hundreds of supporters in Long Beach, NY Saturday June 14, 2014 for the Wind 100
Will you be there at this historic event to cheer Matthew Kearns on across the finish line of his 100 mile run from Montauk to Long Beach to bring attention to Long Islands need to get off dirty fossil fuels and switch to clean, efficient, environmentally friendly off shore wind power?
Already hundreds have signed up to come to the rally at the end of the run, which is going to feature bands like “J and the 9’s” and “NOHC” as well as speakers like Mary Anne Hitt, National Director of the Beyond Coal campaign and NY State Senator Dean Skelos.
Event Details
WHO: Wind Energy Supporters, bands including J and the 9’s and NOHC, National Director of the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign Mary Anne Hitt, Roger Clayman from the AFL-CIO, Catherine Bowes from National Wildlife Federation, Senator Dean Skelos, and you!
WHAT: Wind 100 Rally for Wind Power
WHEN: Saturday, June 14, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
WHERE: Long Beach Boardwalk, 80 West Broadway, Long Beach, NY 11561 (map)
RSVP here: http://action.sierraclub.org/Wind100
image courtesy Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
May 27, 2014. Today the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, as part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan to create American jobs, develop domestic clean energy sources and cut carbon pollution, announced it will move forward with a competitive bid process to lease the designated Wind Energy area off Nassau County’s South Shore.
The area, at its smallest point, starts 11 miles off Long Beach, NY. It widens and moves away from that spot, to approximately 19 miles away(see map). This area will be just barely visible from shore on clear days. The turbines should appear shorter and many times less wide than the majority of tanker and cargo ships that continuously sit off Long Beach on any given day.
Due to multiple inquiries of interest to develop the wind farm, BOEM has opened up the area for competitive bidding and is seeking public input on two issues that may impact future wind development offshore New York:
1) a liquefied natural gas facility that has now been proposed to be located in this same area which had already been designated for wind power
And
2) existing commercial and recreational fishing activity in and around the region.
In editorial response to these issues, All Our Energy are already on record AGAINST the LNG port for a multitude of reasons. You can find that information here : Stop the LNG Port Off Our Shore from June 2013.
As far as affecting commercial and recreational fishing, check out New Jersey’s “Fisherman’s Energy“, a consortium of fishing interests trying to be the people to bring offshore wind to New Jersey (and may very well bid on this project ). They believe it is not only a “cash crop” for fisherman and right for the future of our energy generation, it would also help fishing as it creates an artificial reef that provides fish with habitat to foster greater abundance of fish. They say :”Fishermen’s Energy is a developer of offshore wind energy projects, founded by New Jersey commercial fishermen to respond to the public’s need to develop the ocean for renewable wind energy. Fishermen’s goal is to turn Atlantic coastal waters into an unmatched source of clean energy, while maintaining a vibrant commercial fishing industry.”
You can leave your comments for BOEM by clicking on this link
We believe properly sited, with environmental best practices used, through companies committed for the long term, with long term price assurances, this will be the best thing to happen to assure Long Island’s clean energy future.
Save the date and time! One month from today!
Exact location in the Long Beach Area to be announced.
Our friend Matthew Kearns is running 100 + miles to bring attention to the growing need for and easy availability of Offshore Wind power here on Long Island.
You and I will be there to turn that attention to help Governor Cuomo understand we support moving to offshore wind NOW and help him act on offshore wind power.
Matt is running 100 miles. If you support renewable energy and offshore wind power for Long Island, the least you can do is put aside a couple hours to attend this event.
Be a part of this historical moment and movement. Be there!
RSVP to Sierra Club here: yes I will be there to cheer Matt on and support renewable energy and offshore wind!
BYO Bag LB campaign in the news
Our BYO Bag LB campaign to end plastic pollution was featured in this week’s Long Beach Herald
Find (and share) it online here:
http://www.liherald.com/
Are you seeing the bumper stickers and window clings around town? Tell us where!
have you displayed your support, too?
you are following the campaign facebook page? https://www.facebook.com/
Stay tuned- more dates and events will be coming.
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