Chicago Climate Action: Civil Disobedience at Fisk Coal Power Plant

Alderman Joe Moore (49th Ward, Chicago) pledges to introduce an ordinance in the Chicago City Council to enact Clean Air policies that would effectively ban coal burning power plant with the city. Chicago's Fisk and Crawford coal plants are some of the city's biggest contributors to global warming.

Ald. Moore
http://www.ward94.com

http://www.howgreenischicago.org/
On the October 24th, 350's International Day of Climate Action, Chicagoans protested outside of one of our city's biggest polluters--the Fisk Coal Plant in Pilsen. The Fisk Generating Plant and the Crawford Generating Plant in Little Village are only two of the 5 coal-plants owned by Midwest Generation across Illinois. They are the oldest and dirtiest plants in the country and everyday spew global warming pollution into the atmosphere.

Protesters rally for action on climate issue
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=7081344

Protest at Pilsen coal plant (photos)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/chi-091024-pilsen-protest-pictures,0,2...

8 cited during anti-coal protest
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/10/8-cited-during-anti-coal-protest.html

Coal-Fired Power Plants in Chicago
http://www.pilsenperro.org/coalpower.htm
Like most coal-fired power plants in Illinois, because of their age, the Fisk and Crawford power plants are exempt from federal regulations that require modern pollution control devices. The Fisk plant was most recently rebuilt in 1958 and Crawford in 1959. The idea behind grandfathering the 1950s-era plants in the 1977 Federal Clean Air Act was that the dirty old plants were going to be replaced by more modern, cleaner plants in a matter of years. This was costly error in judgment we are still suffering through and fighting to correct.

The current federal framework for reducing power-plant pollution nationwide, the so-called cap and trade program, allows heavy pollution to be concentrated in areas that are home to people who are most vulnerable to the ill health effects from it, areas with lower-income individuals and minorities who are disenfranchised from the political process and power structure. This is the core concept of environmental injustice.

Chicago: Climate Message At Fisk Coal Plant, Part Of 4,000+ Global Actions
http://www.basilandspice.com/process/CreateReference?moduleId=1869037&ent...
Chicagoans are sending a strong message for immediate climate action at the Chicago Climate Action (CCA) rally and march, one of more than 4,000 simultaneous actions worldwide conducted as part of the International Day of Climate Action, the largest day of global climate action ever organized.

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• Global warming
• Aldernman Joe Moore
• Rogers Park
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• Pilsen
• Crawford Power Plant
• Green Peace
• Chicago Climate Action
• Civil Disobedience

[dogstar7]

@nonsulen Listen, if you want to disprove global warming because you did HS experiments with dry ice, just give it a break. I'm not interested.

[nonsulen]

@dogstar7 Agreed, toxic particles are no good. Co2 is not a particle it is a gas that makes dry ice too.

[dogstar7]

@judomagyar I see what you did there. Humor, right?

[judomagyar]

@dogstar7 I am glad it is so easy to please you.

I tell you a secret. You don't have to time it. The time progression is displayed next o the "Mute" button.

By the way, you don't have to close that power-plant, it will be flooded by the waters of the melted Greenland ice sheet. only Mount Everest an Chomolungma will be above water... Just ask Al Gore.

[dogstar7]

@judomagyar

You mean to tell me you watched it again and logged the time for another comment? What part of "Hardly anyone" did you have a hard time accepting? Watch the monkey dance, everyone. LOL!

[judomagyar]

@dogstar7

The dumb-ass council-member did not say anything about fine ash or particulates. @:30 he said something about being for climate-change. Later he said that closing down (and throwing workers on the street) will somehow will decrease global warming. Did you check out who is paying him to try to close this plant?

Or as Ciceco would say cui bono?

[judomagyar]

@dogstar7

Our kind evolved by realizing that doing a rain-dance has nothing to do with the rain.

[dogstar7]

@judomagyar

Oh, so you didn't actually watch the video. You're just flaming this on the subject matter, right? Hardly anyone talks about Ozone. The plant drops fine ash and particulate matter throughout the community. But don't worry, the people who live there are Mexican immigrants, so they're scapegoats anyway.

[judomagyar]

@dogstar7 It is my own material. I am keeping my day job.

On the other hand hoping that, protesting coal fired power-plants will somehow influence the climate is funny!

It is like doing a rain-dance to make it rain.

[dogstar7]

@nonsulen

Particulates are nobody's friend, friend.