From Jessilyn Kemp of the North Carolina Conservation Network…

Earlier this week we sent you an email about protecting the responsible development of wind energy in North Carolina. We have a quick update and another chance for you to take quick action: //ncconservationnetwork1.org/campaign/windmtns

Senate Bill 1068 is essentially a good bill that the environmental community supports because it would create a needed permitting process for wind projects. But some key state Senators, including yours, are at the heart of an ongoing effort to amend S1068 to ban wind power in the mountains of North Carolina.

If you haven’t had a chance to make a phone call yet, please send a quick email to your Senator asking him/her to oppose a ban on wind power in Western NC: //ncconservationnetwork1.org/campaign/windmtns

Wind power on just five percent of our ridges could create, conservatively, 800 megawatts of capacity -enough to power over 400,000 homes. We can develop wind in Western North Carolina without damaging the region’s environment – and we must to transition NC away from dirty energy sources that threaten our health and our environment.

We need your help to tell our state decision makers that we should NOT ban responsible wind energy projects in North Carolina: //ncconservationnetwork1.org/campaign/windmtns

Thank you,

Jessilyn Kemp
NC Conservation Network

P.S. If this bill is passed with a ban on mountain wind energy, NC risks:

• Sending millions of energy dollars, and hundreds of jobs out of state
• Keeping millions of dollars of local economic development dollars out of the mountains
• Undermining local governments who have adopted permitting laws for commercial wind
• Stripping utilities from one of the most cost-effective options for meeting the NC Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standard.

If you’d like, you can still call your Senator and ask that they don’t close the door on wind energy in North Carolina’s mountains and to support responsibly sited wind energy in the mountains of North Carolina! //tools.advomatic.com/19/windmtns