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Imperial County residents:

February 23rd, 2010 Posted by Chris Clarke in Desert Politics, renewable energy

ACTION ALERT: The Imperial County Board of Supervisors rejected a resolution today that would have created the Imperial County Green Building Retrofit and Workforce Development Program. The program would have required energy efficiency upgrades such as lighting and air conditioning on County facilities in order to create green jobs and skilled training opportunities for Imperial County residents. Recently, the Supervisors also passed on applying for a $5 million stimulus grant to create local green jobs.

The Program would have been the first of its kind for a rural county in the US, and would have positioned Imperial County to tap into millions of dollars in public money for energy efficiency retrofits.

Millions of Federal dollars are poised to fund the construction of gigantic “renewable” industrial energy facilities in our fragile deserts, including those in Imperial County. Those tax dollars should be going to reduce our energy consumption! Retrofitting existing buildings has a lower environmental cost than building new facilities, and creates more long-term jobs with transferrable skills.

Please join IBEW Local 569 and other community partners for a Solidarity Rally to hold Imperial County Supervisors accountable for rejecting green energy efficiency jobs and stimulus funding that would have put local people to work and reduced polluting greenhouse gases!

WHO: Hold Imperial County Supervisors accountable for rejecting green jobs and stimulus funding for local working people.

WHAT: Solidarity Rally at “State of the County” address delivered by County Board of Supervisor President Louis Fuentes

WHEN: Wednesday, February 24th at 6:15. The event starts at 7:00.

WHERE: Rodney Auditorium, SDSU Calexico campus. We will meet outside of the auditorium. For directions to the campus, please click HERE.

RSVP: Contact Micah Mitrosky at mmitrosky@ibew569.org or 619-957-2596.

Please pass this alert along to family, friends and community members so we can have as strong a turnout as possible!

  1. One Response to “Imperial County residents:”

  2. By Larry Hogue on Feb 24, 2010

    This is pretty ironic, in a county that pretty much exists on water subsidized by the federal government.

    Give ‘em hell, Micah!

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