[CRNMC] message about other CR work in the Northwest

[edward Oberweiser]

*(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
<https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=57AD2BB1C1227678%21107&ithint=file%2cpdf&app=WordPdf&authkey=%21ABT4M1rOGCwoDkQ>

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
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