Mayor Dean Maxwell of Anacortes is pushing through a deal to sell five million gallons of municipal water per day from the Skagit River through the year 2040 with extensions through 2050 to Tethys Enterprises, Inc. This ill-proposed one million square foot plant would be the largest bottled water/beverage and food manufacturing plant in the United States. Although citizens personally requested a public hearing before the signing of the contract, Mayor Dean Maxwell turned them down. The people have been given no input on this issue. Please oppose this plant. The water of the Skagit River belongs to the public, not to the city of Anacortes. It should not be sold to the highest bidder. This contract does not take into account projections of Anacortes' future water needs, nor does it take into account the effect global warming is having and will continue to have on the Skagit River, i.e. increasing the likelihood of floods and decreasing its flow in the summertime. Will the people of Anacortes and the rest of the Skagit Valley have enough water in the future after Tethys gets its five million gallons? The plant will produce huge amounts of plastic waste, which will massively impact the environment. It will also add huge amounts of wastewater, which in addition to negatively impacting the environment will require an expansion of Anacortes' wastewater plant, the cost of which is not included in the contract with Tethys. According to Matt Kelly of Tethys, the plant will increase rail traffic by 400 rail cars a day – four unit trains–and may affect access to the Skagit Airport and other businesses on that side of State Route 20. These will add tremendously to the air and noise pollution and traffic congestion of the area. The contract with Tethys does not guarantee jobs from the water plant for local citizens, and what jobs it would bring are not worth the environmental impacts of the plant. At a time when we are struggling with global climate change and environmental degradation, it would be irresponsible and enormously counterproductive to add wastewater pollution and plastic pollution from the manufacturing, and the noise pollution, traffic congestion, and train diesel exhaust pollution that will be produced from the operation of this water plant. Not to mention how it will encourage the continued use of bottled water which involves burning massive quantities of fossil fuels for production and transportation of the product and contributes tremendously to our garbage stream since 86% of plastic water bottles used in the U.S. become garbage or litter. Please stop this plant from becoming a reality. Please contact Mayor Maxwell, your legislators, and Governor Gregoire about this issue. Thanks. Mayor Dean Maxwell P.O. Box 547 904 6th Street Anacortes, WA 98221 (360) 299-1950 (360) 293-1938 – fax [email protected] to find your WA state legislator: http://apps.leg.wa.gov/districtfinder/ Governor Gregoire: Office of the Governor PO Box 40002 Olympia, WA 98504-0002 360-902-4111 http://www.governor.wa.gov/contact/ Sources: 1. Address to Anacortes City Council By Steve Winter, CEO, Tethys Enterprises September 13, 2010 2. Request to the City of Anacortes for extension of their water contract By Steve Winter, CEO, Tethys Enterprises August 29, 2011 3. Economic & Fiscal Benefits Memorandum: economic and fiscal effects of a bottling facility in Skagit County By E.D. Hovee & Company, LLD May 31, 2011 4. City of Anacortes, Washington and Tethys Enterprises, Inc. Agreement Regarding Water Service October 1, 2010 5. Bottle the Skagit River? By Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin: Sandra Spargo http://readthedirt.org/2012/02/10/bottle-the-skagit-river/ February 10, 2012

Fracking is unregulated and destroying or health and environment . Government is giving drilling companies a free pass. They are exempt from clean water act and are now can't be regulated by local communities it impacts. This must stop.

Monsanto has proven itself a danger to human and non-human communities. Through the production of toxins, carcinogens, and genetically modified organisms, Monsanto has by its actions loudly stated that they value the accumulation of money more than they value clean air, water, and soil, and they value the accumulation of money more than they value healthy communities of humans and non-humans. Further, their campaigns of dishonesty concerning the safety of their products, their campaigns of legal warfare against small scale farmers, scientists, and journalists, their campaigns of corruption against democratic governments, and their campaigns of horrendous worker treatment in foreign countries demonstrate beyond any reasonable doubt that Monsanto's continued existence presents a clear an present danger not only to the foundations of life, but to human systems of government and justice.

We need pllkution free and waste free clean enrgy Wind Turbines and the tens of thousands of jobs that come with it in manufacturing, delivering and maintaining for Cleveland, Ohio! Jobs and clean energy for Cleveland ,Ohio a win win situation!

Texas is in dire need of Federal allocations which would accomplish the design and implementation of long-term drought contingency infrastructure, up to and including the diligent pursuit of irrigation systems to prevent the dangerous and preventable conditions inherent to droughts, both for Texas residents and for Texas wildlife. The implied course of work in fulfilling this vacancy in Federal accountability serves not only to accomplish the necessary practical affirmation of the Federal government's intended presence in the determination of interstate civic affairs and processes, but also provides the generation of a works market that would accordingly alleviate employment strain through resolving highly problematic agricultural and environmental negligence.

The US must take decisive steps now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Legislation (H.R. 3242) has been introduced to make polluters pay for carbon emissions in a way that will drive the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy. The Citizens Climate Lobby is asking for your support of this bill. Signatures wil be delivered to Congress by the CCL.

We oppose Army Corps of Engineers giving a permit to the to the Governor of Puerto Rico to build the "Via Verde" gas-pipeline. The contracts to build it will go to the Governor's friends. The company that will build it wants a tax exception and the People of Puerto Rico would wind up paying for the destruction of their own environment. Governor Fortuño’s Via Verde Gas Pipeline represents the destruction of 1,500 acres of forests, 800 acres of agricultural land, direct impact to 235 bodies of water, wetlands, ecosystems that produce the majority of Puerto Rico's drinking water, threats to sacred archeological sites of native Taino people, displacement of scores of Puerto Rican families, waste of millions of dollars, as well as putting at risk over 200,000 people. In Puerto Rico, environmental, professional, labor, student, religious, cultural, political and community groups and grassroots Puerto Rican people are marching to stand for environmental justice, and for the right of the people of Puerto Rico to their land, their water, their culture. We the People say, "No!" to the "Via Verde" gas pipeline. ................................................................................................. [castilian/Spanish] Nosotros los aqui firmantes de esta peticion demandamos al “Army Corps of Engineers” que le niegue el permiso al Gobernador Fortuno para construir el gasoducto “Via Verde”. Los contratos son para el beneficio de los amigos del Gobernador. La compania que quiere construir el gasoducto pide que le den excemcion para no pagar impuestos y asi los puertorriquenos terminarian pagando por la propia destruccion de su ambiente. Ese gasoducto de Fortuno representa la destruccion de 1,500 cuerdas de bosques, 800 cuerdas de tierras agricolas, impactaria 235 cuerpos de agua, humedales, ecosistemas, que producen la mayoria del agua potable que se consume en Puerto Rico, amenaza a los asentamientos sagrados de los amerindios tainos, el desplazamiento de familias puertorriquenas, malgasto de millones de dolares, como tambien pone en riesgo a mas de 200,000 ciudadanos. En Puerto Rico, grupos de profesionales, ambientalistas, trabajadores, religiosos,politicos, grupos comunitarios, gente y personas del pueblo se estan manifestando por el derecho del pueblo Puertorriqueno su tierra, su agua y su cultura. Nosotros, el Pueblo, decimos, "No al “Via Verde”, tubo de la muerte.

Improving home energy efficiency gives residents control over their energy usage, so they can use less without sacrificing comfort. However, the initial cost of efficiency upgrades can put these improvements out of reach for many customers. Connecticut has great programs that can make upgrades more affordable, but currently they are not available to the half of state residents who heat with oil, because unlike natural gas customers, they do not contribute to the state's efficiency fund via their fuel bill. The Connecticut legislature is considering a measure that would correct this, making energy efficiency programs that are currently available to electric and gas customers also available to heating oil users. Please ask your state senator and representative to support this legislation.

Each of use creates wastewater daily and the reason it can't be released into a river or lake is that it causes algae blooms, it's a rich resource for growing algae. So in America we burn 474-million gallons of all types of transportation fuels a day and with 300-million people that's 1.58-gallons a person a day in fuel. If you grow algae to purify the wastewater it's worth about 2-gallons or more a day per person on the system. Biodiesel will burn in any engine on the planet so this suggests a way to gain all our transportation fuels from our own wastewater and never need a drop of oil. The reasons to do this is that algae are the world's best water cleaners so when growth-rates drop the water is given final treatment and fully recycled like North Lake Tahoe's plant has been doing since the late 1970's, so you get the water back. Then you get the biodiesel by pressing the algae for oils and giving that a tweak to work with the seals in the engines you use. This system can work at any scale, for example Phoenix, AZ, produces 10-million gallons a day of secondary effluent, 41.5-million pounds of fertilizer the algae must consume before tomorrow and worth about 3-million gallons of biodiesel daily. The fertilizer alone is worth over $9-million a day, that's part of the economy of doing this is to use this renewable source to grow our fuel from existing infrastructure and like for Phoenix, a city on canals to get enough water, the 10-million gallons of wastewater is recycled saving that amount in fresh-water demand --- per day. With a local source of transportation fuels being created at wastewater plants, we'll never need another gallon of foreign oil.

This petition has been requested due to lack of environmental consciousness of Oil Rigging "Experts" as well as the general lack of moral decency and foresight crude oil as a form of energy presents. We should aim our sights on electrical and solar hybrid vehicles. This petition aims to boycott the purchase of any new automobiles that run off of crude oil and promotes the growth of a different, more safe and economically suitable alternative in the automotive industry.

The proposed Keystone XL Pipeline would carry oil from tar sands in Canada to the Gulf for export. Extracting oil from the tar sands requires large amounts of water and energy. This pipeline extension would cross the Nebraska sand hills, which means leaked oil would likely contaminate water suppliles in the Midwest. Indigenous peoples in Canada have united to oppose tar sands mining and pipeline construction. This diverts attentiion and resources away from better, long term, renewable energy development. The primary problem with tar sands is the contribution to atmospheric CO2 levels and global warming.

The "Natural Areas Program" controls 1/4 of San Francisco city parkland and is destroying 18,500 trees and wildlife habitat, closing 10 miles of trails, and increasing toxic herbicide in an attempt to "restore" the dune plants which were here in 1776. San Francisco Forest Alliance at http://sfforest.net is a new organization trying to stop the expansion of this unnatural and unsustainable program. The program diverts $1.6 million a year from park operating funds and millions in park bonds and state grants while SF Rec & Park is cutting basic park programs, increasing park fees, and asking for more bond funding. The NAP DEIR can be found at: http://sfmea.sfplanning.org/2005.0912E_DEIR.pdf One of the significant comments to the DEIR can be found at: http://milliontrees.wordpress.com/2011/10/10/professor-arthur-shapiros-comment-on-the-environmental-impact-report-for-the-natural-areas-program/ San Francisco Forest Alliance Preserving Public Parks For The Public SFForest.Net