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To: Texas Governor and Texas Legislators
Texans demand publicly owned nonprofit electricity and water utilities and supplies
Texans demand a public vote, a referendum, to instruct our state leaders to serve the will of the people for the immediate return to adequate and safe non profit publicly owned electricity and water utility supplies and services funded and supported with state and federal dollars for the good of all Texans. Also for the immediate nullification of state laws and county and local board level rules that interfere with that. Texas Laws must make that a top priority for the spending of the public dollars We the People funded.
This is a mandate for
Texas leaders to allow the People to vote by referendum for
1) Texas leaders to publicly fund, and publicly conjunctively manage and protect adequate public electricity and water sources and supplies, back up reserves
and conservation measures
And for our state to continually research and update and report to public all power and water availability and usage data
and at all times sustain more availability than use demands,
maximize statewide large and small scale conservation measures and
develop various proven safe non-aquifer forms of water storage, distribution and supply to
be prepared for normal demands and minimize harms to our supplies and the public during expected unavoidable extremes, and worst past historical and expected worst scenarios such as increased climate extremes while reducing reliance upon aquifers and reducing contaminants in and pollution into our Texas aquifers and watersheds and off grid back up reserve supplies.
2) instructing Texas leaders not to spend public dollars to fund or set up electricity or water markets and shall not continue to write priorities in state laws for marketing publicly owned elecricity and water supplies and services and to repeal such laws where they exist and not allow passage of SB 601 or SB 699 which ignore risks to public and existing water resources and which also set up 2 more types of water markets.
Texas leaders must minimize harms, damages and costs to the people of Texas during water and power crisis, not maximize profits of power and water marketers which several laws now state and must be nullified. Texas laws and county and local board level rules that enable exploitation, theft and or export from Texas of publicly owned and or publicly funded water and electricity supplies must be prohibited and nullified. Damages to public electricity and water utilities supplies and services from Feb 2021 Texas Ice storm must be restored and repaired by our Texas Legislature using state and federal funds.
3) for all leaders making decisions regarding public power and water supplies to place highest priority on protection of these resources and on the well being of ALL Texans and not have financial conflicts of intrests, and for all meetings of legislative and water and electricity decision makers serving the public to be public, recorded and transparent.
4) There shall exist a state law for a mechanism for public recall of any power or water decision making official.
Our leaders must be held accountable to ensure
the public is provided power and water service at a price limited to covering expense.
Our leaders must require adequate public notice and public hearings regarding public power and water utility rate increases and about increasing taxes for public power and water infrastructure. Also they must maintain our state's coordination with national infrastructure power and water grids at all times. Any publicly owned water and electricity utility and supply damaged during crisis or extreme weather event must be immediately restored and repaired. Back up reserves of state funding and supplies for that purpose must exist continuously.
This is a mandate for
Texas leaders to allow the People to vote by referendum for
1) Texas leaders to publicly fund, and publicly conjunctively manage and protect adequate public electricity and water sources and supplies, back up reserves
and conservation measures
And for our state to continually research and update and report to public all power and water availability and usage data
and at all times sustain more availability than use demands,
maximize statewide large and small scale conservation measures and
develop various proven safe non-aquifer forms of water storage, distribution and supply to
be prepared for normal demands and minimize harms to our supplies and the public during expected unavoidable extremes, and worst past historical and expected worst scenarios such as increased climate extremes while reducing reliance upon aquifers and reducing contaminants in and pollution into our Texas aquifers and watersheds and off grid back up reserve supplies.
2) instructing Texas leaders not to spend public dollars to fund or set up electricity or water markets and shall not continue to write priorities in state laws for marketing publicly owned elecricity and water supplies and services and to repeal such laws where they exist and not allow passage of SB 601 or SB 699 which ignore risks to public and existing water resources and which also set up 2 more types of water markets.
Texas leaders must minimize harms, damages and costs to the people of Texas during water and power crisis, not maximize profits of power and water marketers which several laws now state and must be nullified. Texas laws and county and local board level rules that enable exploitation, theft and or export from Texas of publicly owned and or publicly funded water and electricity supplies must be prohibited and nullified. Damages to public electricity and water utilities supplies and services from Feb 2021 Texas Ice storm must be restored and repaired by our Texas Legislature using state and federal funds.
3) for all leaders making decisions regarding public power and water supplies to place highest priority on protection of these resources and on the well being of ALL Texans and not have financial conflicts of intrests, and for all meetings of legislative and water and electricity decision makers serving the public to be public, recorded and transparent.
4) There shall exist a state law for a mechanism for public recall of any power or water decision making official.
Our leaders must be held accountable to ensure
the public is provided power and water service at a price limited to covering expense.
Our leaders must require adequate public notice and public hearings regarding public power and water utility rate increases and about increasing taxes for public power and water infrastructure. Also they must maintain our state's coordination with national infrastructure power and water grids at all times. Any publicly owned water and electricity utility and supply damaged during crisis or extreme weather event must be immediately restored and repaired. Back up reserves of state funding and supplies for that purpose must exist continuously.
Why is this important?
Texas laws and rules at all levels from the Texas Legislature to local boards exist which enable exploitation, theft and or export from Texas of publicly owned and or publicly funded water and electricity supplies and facilitate shifts in management to for profit non public entities must be stopped. This must immediately end and any such existing and proposed bills, laws and rules enabling such things must be immediately nullified. Damages to public electricity and water utilities supplies and services from Feb 2021 Texas Ice storm must be restored and repaired by our Texas Legislature using state and federal funds.
Please encourage alot more people to sign this petition.
Did the cold war ever end? Or did it sneakily persist by foreign enemies manipulating the public in our country to fight among ourselves and to disregard and neglect basic civil services like public electricity and water supply.....which are targeted during battle to win over opponents lands.
During the terrible Polar vortex freeze of Feb 2021 in Texas, decades of public apathy toward basic civil utility services of power and water contributed to conditions that led to our people suffering greatly and un-necessarily at the hands of private investors who influenced our leaders to psss laws to maximize their profits while putting at great risk our economy, security, electricity and water utilities and supplies and peoples' well being and health even costing people their lives. Public apathy and greedy leadership turned public opinion into a misleading notion that taxes are bad therefore public spending is bad therefore the false and now proven dangerous idea that civil services should not be publicly funded. However, as a result the people are now learning the hard and difficult lesson that if we don't unite statewide to publicly pay for, publicly statewide conjuctively manage our various power and water utility services, supplies and sources, then we must pay much more out of our own pockets and even with our lives while our economies and state's utilities and security are destroyed during crisis situations made worse from lack of public support and preparation and lack of statewide distribution and lack of coordination with national infrastructure grids.
We the People are still fortunate to still have mechanisms to change back to publicly supporting civil services of power and water again. We just have to make sure our leaders know they represent the people in our country not greedy investors who care less about our country nor our peoples well being.
Please read over and share this petition on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and sign it for a public vote to show our leaders that the People of Texas want our leaders serving our public and using our public funds and resources and government institutions and laws to sustain and strengthen publicly owned, managed and protected water and power sources and supply for the benefit of our People.
Also this petition asks our leaders to require public hearings for cost increases whether by public utility bills or by public tax dollar spending on publicly owned and managed infrastructure to require public hearings with adequate announcements and notice.
This is how we the People unite to prevent our leaders from facilitating greedy crisis profiteering from ever again sneaking up on us and destroying our personal and state's well being.
Public power and water services are neccessary to benefit the public to sustain our well being, freedom and democracy before Texans become treated like the next Puerto Ricans.
One big aquifer damaging event and we will be loosing our state's biggest water supply for generations!!! and loosing our food and power production as well!
Don't wait til what happened in the Feb 2021 freeze in Texas happens again!!
Never again should the people let our leaders set up power and water markets. These markets always make worse than expected already extreme droughts and heat and extra cold weather because they make our laws give top priority to their profits.
Our leaders have known to prepare for climate extremes for four decades, but refused to prepare to protect our state resources and the public wellbeing!
Instead our leaders have been and still are today with the 2021 Texas legislature SB 601 and SB 699 setting up more water markets which do little to minimize risks to our people. Watermarkets everywhich way are being created by the Texas legislature. But water markets prioritze profits and only prepare for price gouging so they must not be allowed to continue to use public resources. Our people must insist our leaders develop and fund adequate public water supply and conservation measures.
See more info at Facebook site "Water Angel-water conservation, protection and fact checking"
Please encourage alot more people to sign this petition.
Did the cold war ever end? Or did it sneakily persist by foreign enemies manipulating the public in our country to fight among ourselves and to disregard and neglect basic civil services like public electricity and water supply.....which are targeted during battle to win over opponents lands.
During the terrible Polar vortex freeze of Feb 2021 in Texas, decades of public apathy toward basic civil utility services of power and water contributed to conditions that led to our people suffering greatly and un-necessarily at the hands of private investors who influenced our leaders to psss laws to maximize their profits while putting at great risk our economy, security, electricity and water utilities and supplies and peoples' well being and health even costing people their lives. Public apathy and greedy leadership turned public opinion into a misleading notion that taxes are bad therefore public spending is bad therefore the false and now proven dangerous idea that civil services should not be publicly funded. However, as a result the people are now learning the hard and difficult lesson that if we don't unite statewide to publicly pay for, publicly statewide conjuctively manage our various power and water utility services, supplies and sources, then we must pay much more out of our own pockets and even with our lives while our economies and state's utilities and security are destroyed during crisis situations made worse from lack of public support and preparation and lack of statewide distribution and lack of coordination with national infrastructure grids.
We the People are still fortunate to still have mechanisms to change back to publicly supporting civil services of power and water again. We just have to make sure our leaders know they represent the people in our country not greedy investors who care less about our country nor our peoples well being.
Please read over and share this petition on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and sign it for a public vote to show our leaders that the People of Texas want our leaders serving our public and using our public funds and resources and government institutions and laws to sustain and strengthen publicly owned, managed and protected water and power sources and supply for the benefit of our People.
Also this petition asks our leaders to require public hearings for cost increases whether by public utility bills or by public tax dollar spending on publicly owned and managed infrastructure to require public hearings with adequate announcements and notice.
This is how we the People unite to prevent our leaders from facilitating greedy crisis profiteering from ever again sneaking up on us and destroying our personal and state's well being.
Public power and water services are neccessary to benefit the public to sustain our well being, freedom and democracy before Texans become treated like the next Puerto Ricans.
One big aquifer damaging event and we will be loosing our state's biggest water supply for generations!!! and loosing our food and power production as well!
Don't wait til what happened in the Feb 2021 freeze in Texas happens again!!
Never again should the people let our leaders set up power and water markets. These markets always make worse than expected already extreme droughts and heat and extra cold weather because they make our laws give top priority to their profits.
Our leaders have known to prepare for climate extremes for four decades, but refused to prepare to protect our state resources and the public wellbeing!
Instead our leaders have been and still are today with the 2021 Texas legislature SB 601 and SB 699 setting up more water markets which do little to minimize risks to our people. Watermarkets everywhich way are being created by the Texas legislature. But water markets prioritze profits and only prepare for price gouging so they must not be allowed to continue to use public resources. Our people must insist our leaders develop and fund adequate public water supply and conservation measures.
See more info at Facebook site "Water Angel-water conservation, protection and fact checking"
How it will be delivered
This petition will be delivered to the Texas Governor and state legislators.