Conservation Congress - April 11 - PLEASE ATTEND!

This from the Frac Sand Sentinel:

Dear friends,

Thanks to your work introducing and supporting environmental resolutions at last year's Wisconsin Conservation Congress Spring Hearings, two of these resolutions are on the ballot for THIS year's Spring Hearings! Check them out on page 21 of this document. That means that people in EVERY county in the STATE will get to vote on the following questions:

20. Are you in favor of repealing Act 1, the iron mining law from 2013?

21. Are you in favor of the legislature imposing a moratorium on new state permits for frac sand mining and processing until any recommendations that may be developed following the completion of the Strategic Analysis of Industrial Sand Mining can be implemented?

This means that we need you AGAIN to come out to this year's spring hearings, which will be held on Monday, April 11 at 7:00 PM in every county of the state, so you can VOTE IN FAVOR of questions 20 and 21. Check this document for your county's hearing location. 

Please forward this far and wide and encourage your friends to turn out for the hearings to vote on these important questions and put the state legislature on notice that the people of Wisconsin will not stand for attacks on our precious environmental heritage!

CHECK OUT THE WEBSITE: WWW.CCC-WIS.COM for additional information

[La Crosse county's Conservation Congress will be held at ONALASKA HIGH SCHOOL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, 700 Hilltopper Place, at 7 p.m.]

Frac sand mining is one stop in the cycle of death by fossil fuels. Whatever can be done to stop that death spiral should be done.

People may be awakening to the severe and immediate threat continuing use of fossil fuels is having on future generations and on OUR generation. A recent court ruling allowing a suit by youth climate activists against fossil fuel companies and the US government to go forward is big news because more than fifty years of knowing and doing nothing may be coming to an end. No more business as usual.

Naomi Klein highlights this new paradigm in her recent article in the Nation magazine, "The problem with Clinton isn't just her corporate cash. It's her corporate world view." Unfortunately, we are at the point where you can't have your anti-fossil fuel cake and eat your fossil-fuel soaked candidate, too.

The brakes must be applied starting locally - stopping frac sand mining, demanding investments in transit rather then highways and parking, preferring locally and sustainably produced products, including food, working to change our communities' and states' policies and budgets - and continuing to the national and international scale.

Start on Monday by voting to repeal the 2013 iron mining law and by voting in favor of a moratorium on new frac sand permits.