[Texgreen] FW: [houston] Billionaires for Coal Take Manhattan in anti-TXU action

[Alfred Molison]

>From: "Houston Global Awareness" <hgac@riseup.net>
>To: undisclosed-recipients:;
>Subject: [houston] Billionaires for Coal Take Manhattan in anti-TXU action
>Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 20:25:00 -0600 (CST)
>
>On Tuesday, the Billionaires for Coal held a rally outside of Merrill
>Lynch's HQ in New York to support the bank's funding of Texas based
>utility company TXU's dirty energy plan to fund 11 new coal-fired power
>plants.
>
>Check out the video here--
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-jxZoSf6p8
>
>
>Merrill Lynch is a primary investor in Dallas based TXU's plan to build 11
>new coal power plants.
>
>These new plants would:
>
>* More than double TXU’s carbon dioxide (CO2) output, increasing it by a
>massive 78 million tons of CO2 per year.
>* Be the equivalent of 14 million new cars on the highways
>* Put more emissions out than 21 US states
>* Negate Japan’s commitment to the Kyoto Protocol
>* Impose costs of at least $6.6 billion a year (with CO2 estimated costs
>at $85 a tone) over 50 years
>* Lock-in a new generation of old-school power plant technology
>* Take us in the opposite direction of any reasonable climate progress.
>
>Let's show them how financing dirty coal plants instead of adopting
>climate-friendly environmental and social policies makes the greedy
>billionaires celebrate!
>
>To get involved, email--activism@ran.org check out--www.dirtymoney.org for
>updates
>

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