[CRNMC] Fwd: Columbia County, Oregon files CR ordinance to ban coal & oil trains!

[Meg Courtney]

Great news from Paul C. and Columbia County!
Meg

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> From: Paul Cienfuegos <paul at 100fires.com>
> Date: December 20, 2014 1:22:00 AM PST
> To: edward Oberweiser <edoberweiser at gmail.com>, Ali Boecker <alis_element at yahoo.com>, Kelly Larson <SolarKelly at gmail.com>, karinajoy Cotler <karina at lcotler.com>, Carrie Durkee <CDurkee at mcn.org>, Meg Courtney <mcourtney1 at mcn.org>
> Subject: Columbia County, Oregon files CR ordinance to ban coal & oil trains!
> 
> (I am attempting to send this email notice to at least a few key people in each active CR county in the country that I'm in an ongoing working relationship with. Please share it actively with your own local core members, and others who might be interested. Thanks!)
> 
> 
> Y'all,
> Very big and exciting CR news today from the county where I went four times to teach over the past year, and then Kai Huschke (from CELDF) co-led a Democracy School fairly recently and then helped them with their draft ordinance. Today, Columbia County Sustainable Action for Green Energy officially filed with their county elections office their brand-spanking-new "Columbia County Sustainable Energy Future Ordinance" which would ban fossil fuel transport through the county, specifically oil and coal trains, and would recognize the rights of nature. The fossil fuel corporations have big plans for their county, and intend for it to become the newest major oil and coal export terminal to China.
> 
> Primary mover and shaker, and Clatskanie resident and organic farmer Tracy Prescott-MacGregor told me earlier today that i first arrived in their county to introduce CR to a skeptical but desperate group of folks assembled in a living room exactly one year ago to this day. Isn't that cool?
> 
> Here is the actual ordinance as a printable pdf: 
> https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=57AD2BB1C1227678!107&ithint=file%2cpdf&app=WordPdf&authkey=!ABT4M1rOGCwoDkQ
> 
> And here is their new website that I believe just went up today, and is not quite finalized yet for public viewing, but close enough to take an initial look: 
> http://ccsage.org.
> 
> Go Columbia County Go!
> 
> May i suggest that we all send our best wishes to them for their amazing and rapid work! You can send a congratulatory note by emailing it to <info at ccsage.org> and please let them know where you're writing from, and how their efforts are connected to your efforts.
> 
> Yes we CAN stop oil and coal (and now propane!) trains from passing through our communities!
> Please spread the word! 
> 
> best to all,
> Paul C
> 
> 
> Paul Cienfuegos
> PaulCienfuegos.com (dismantling corporate rule work)
> 100fires.com (my online bookstore)
> CommunityRightsPDX.org (local group I co-founded)
> 
> paul at 100fires.com
> POB 86605, Portland, OR 97286
> Cascadia, USA, Mother Earth
> 

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