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Request to President Obama: Please meet with the Scientists and Families in GASLAND, Part II
July 8th, 2013
Dear President Obama, Vice President Biden, Secretary Moniz, Heather Zichal and Valerie Jarrett,
I write to request a meeting with you and families directly impacted by oil and gas drilling and fracking—as documented in Gasland Part II—together with a small group of scientists and engineers who are also featured in the film. We would like to discuss health and economic impacts felt by communities located near the oil and gas fields, share our first-hand stories, and provide you with evidence on rates of well leakage, water contamination, air pollution and methane emissions.
We are aware that your administration has met with the natural gas industry and their representatives and lobbyists many times. We now ask you to meet with us: representatives of those suffering from unconventional drilling and fracking, and members of the scientific community who wish to inform you of the perils of this unprecedented push to drill.
We believe that the natural gas industry has not been forthcoming with your administration about the real effects of drilling and fracking on our water, air, land, climate, public health and safety—and on democracy itself. As such, we seek to discuss with you the dark side of fracking, a perspective that has not yet been presented to you with adequate weight or emphasis.
In 2008, when I was offered a gas lease on my land in the upper Delaware River watershed in Pennsylvania, I decided to investigate the effects of drilling and fracking around the nation. That investigation became the documentary Gasland. While filming, I discovered widespread water contamination, air pollution, methane leakage, land scarring and massive industrialization of previously rural, suburban or urban areas. Most disturbingly of all, I discovered in the gasfields of America people who had lost control of their lives, their communities, and their human and civil rights.
Although I had never before made a documentary, Gasland was accepted at the Sundance Film festival, picked up by HBO, nominated for the 2011 Academy Award for Best Documentary, and received four Emmy nominations—winning one for my direction. The film has been aired on television in over thirty countries to an estimated audience of 50 million people.
I have now made a second film, Gasland Part II, which covers a new form of contamination— the capture of our regulatory agencies by the oil and gas industry. I document industry’s undue influence on your administration as well as on state and local regulators whose job is to protect the public health and safety. A striking pattern emerges: Time and again, regulators investigating citizens’ concerns determine the gas development operation nearby is a clear cause of water contamination, only to walk away after protest from industry reaches an uncomfortable pitch. The film’s portrayal of the exclusion of “we the people” from the dialogue about the future of energy in the United States should concern you. Gasland Part II premieres today, July 8, on HBO.
We thus respectfully request a meeting with you. More specifically, I wish to introduce you to members of seven families from disparate regions across the nation who have all had their lives ruined by drilling and fracking operations. These families are emblematic. They represent thousands of people who have had their basic rights trampled by drilling on nearby properties and by the attendant gas refining and delivery infrastructure. These citizens include--
• the Lipsky family in Texas, whose water was contaminated and made flammable by Range Resources;
• the Gee Family in Pennsylvania, who, after four generations, were forced off their land by a six-well horizontal drill pad built by Shell on a neighboring property;
• the Fenton family in Wyoming, who have been battling Canadian drilling giant Encana and who are now suffering health problems from the air and water contamination around their house;
• the Tillman family of Dish, Texas, who were forced by polluted air to move from the town that Mr. Tillman was serving as mayor;
• the Switzer and Ely familes of Dimock, Pennsylvania, whose water was shown to be contaminated by both the federal Environmental Protection Agency and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection--only to receive a roller coaster ride of broken promises by both agencies; and
• the Bevins family from West Virginia, whose son CJ was killed on a drilling pad in New York as a result of an unsafe drilling site, and whose campaign has helped alert the country that workers in the oil and gas industry are seven times more likely to die on the job than workers in other industries.
In addition, I would like you to meet with the scientists in the film: Dr. Tony Ingraffea, Dr. Robert Howarth, and Professor Mark Z. Jacobson.
Dr. Ingraffea from Cornell University, a former oil and gas industry researcher, will explain how the industry is incapable of ensuring the integrity of wells being drilled and how the industry's own science shows that wells are leaking at high rates, contaminating our country's precious groundwater. Dr. Howarth, also of Cornell, will describe how the release of methane, one of our most potent greenhouse gases, into the air from fracking and natural gas production render the use of fracked gas even more deleterious to the climate than burning coal. Professor Mark Z. Jacobson, director of Stanford University’s Atmosphere and Energy Program, will explain that there is a way forward for America that is free of fossil fuels. As he and his colleagues have documented in a groundbreaking study, wind, water and solar resources available to us right now make it possible for our nation to claim true energy independence and protect the health and safety of the generations to come.
America has been forever changed by the sense of grassroots collective drive that your election in 2008 instilled in us as a nation. The grassroots movement that has sprung up across the country and across the world against fracking has all the enthusiasm, positivity, sense of history, endurance and resolve as the one that elected you our President. When speaking to your grassroots campaign staff in 2012, you reminded them that the only way to fight the enormous influence of corporate cash and power in the election was the strength of "neighbor talking to neighbor," of communities coming together to fight for what is right. That is exactly what the grassroots movement against fracking is made of: people fighting for their communities locally, with an eye on the bigger global challenges ahead. Above all, we are a movement of people, not corporations; we are a movement of neighbors who care deeply about the places we live and about this country as a whole. We believe that it is your desire to put the people's interests at the forefront of your political message and it is in this spirit that we ask you to meet with us.
President Obama, we support you. We support your earnest desire to fight climate change, but the science shows that your embrace of natural gas will undermine everything you are trying to accomplish in your plan. And the violation of health and property rights that inexorably accompany drilling and fracking operations undermines any claim of energy independence.
We urge you to meet with us as you have met with the gas industry. We are on your side. We do not wish to see your legacy inscribed by fracking chemicals in the ground, high levels of emissions and pollution in the air, ruined families, broken shards of the American dream, and the terror felt by millions as the drilling industry descends on lands in 34 states. Do not let your legacy be a switch from coal to gas, a Pyrrhic victory, an exchange of one form of climate-killing pollution for another that, over its entire lifecycle, is just as calamitous. Instead, ground your energy policy in careful science and let your legacy include hearing the people out.
In the name of fairness and democracy, we implore that you meet with us, as you have met with the oil and gas industry.
We look forward to your reply. Thank you for considering this request.
Sincerely and in support,
Josh Fox
Director, GASLAND Parts I and II
Milanville, PA 18443
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Request to President Obama: Please meet with the Scientists and Families in GASLAND, Part II
July 8th, 2013
Dear President Obama, Vice President Biden, Secretary Moniz, Heather Zichal and Valerie Jarrett,
I write to request a meeting with you and families directly impacted by oil and gas drilling and fracking—as documented in Gasland Part II—together with a small group of scientists and engineers who are also featured in the film. We would like to discuss health and economic impacts felt by communities located near the oil and gas fields, share our first-hand stories, and provide you with evidence on rates of well leakage, water contamination, air pollution and methane emissions.
We are aware that your administration has met with the natural gas industry and their representatives and lobbyists many times. We now ask you to meet with us: representatives of those suffering from unconventional drilling and fracking, and members of the scientific community who wish to inform you of the perils of this unprecedented push to drill.
We believe that the natural gas industry has not been forthcoming with your administration about the real effects of drilling and fracking on our water, air, land, climate, public health and safety—and on democracy itself. As such, we seek to discuss with you the dark side of fracking, a perspective that has not yet been presented to you with adequate weight or emphasis.
In 2008, when I was offered a gas lease on my land in the upper Delaware River watershed in Pennsylvania, I decided to investigate the effects of drilling and fracking around the nation. That investigation became the documentary Gasland. While filming, I discovered widespread water contamination, air pollution, methane leakage, land scarring and massive industrialization of previously rural, suburban or urban areas. Most disturbingly of all, I discovered in the gasfields of America people who had lost control of their lives, their communities, and their human and civil rights.
Although I had never before made a documentary, Gasland was accepted at the Sundance Film festival, picked up by HBO, nominated for the 2011 Academy Award for Best Documentary, and received four Emmy nominations—winning one for my direction. The film has been aired on television in over thirty countries to an estimated audience of 50 million people.
I have now made a second film, Gasland Part II, which covers a new form of contamination— the capture of our regulatory agencies by the oil and gas industry. I document industry’s undue influence on your administration as well as on state and local regulators whose job is to protect the public health and safety. A striking pattern emerges: Time and again, regulators investigating citizens’ concerns determine the gas development operation nearby is a clear cause of water contamination, only to walk away after protest from industry reaches an uncomfortable pitch. The film’s portrayal of the exclusion of “we the people” from the dialogue about the future of energy in the United States should concern you. Gasland Part II premieres today, July 8, on HBO.
We thus respectfully request a meeting with you. More specifically, I wish to introduce you to members of seven families from disparate regions across the nation who have all had their lives ruined by drilling and fracking operations. These families are emblematic. They represent thousands of people who have had their basic rights trampled by drilling on nearby properties and by the attendant gas refining and delivery infrastructure. These citizens include--
• the Lipsky family in Texas, whose water was contaminated and made flammable by Range Resources;
• the Gee Family in Pennsylvania, who, after four generations, were forced off their land by a six-well horizontal drill pad built by Shell on a neighboring property;
• the Fenton family in Wyoming, who have been battling Canadian drilling giant Encana and who are now suffering health problems from the air and water contamination around their house;
• the Tillman family of Dish, Texas, who were forced by polluted air to move from the town that Mr. Tillman was serving as mayor;
• the Switzer and Ely familes of Dimock, Pennsylvania, whose water was shown to be contaminated by both the federal Environmental Protection Agency and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection--only to receive a roller coaster ride of broken promises by both agencies; and
• the Bevins family from West Virginia, whose son CJ was killed on a drilling pad in New York as a result of an unsafe drilling site, and whose campaign has helped alert the country that workers in the oil and gas industry are seven times more likely to die on the job than workers in other industries.
In addition, I would like you to meet with the scientists in the film: Dr. Tony Ingraffea, Dr. Robert Howarth, and Professor Mark Z. Jacobson.
Dr. Ingraffea from Cornell University, a former oil and gas industry researcher, will explain how the industry is incapable of ensuring the integrity of wells being drilled and how the industry's own science shows that wells are leaking at high rates, contaminating our country's precious groundwater. Dr. Howarth, also of Cornell, will describe how the release of methane, one of our most potent greenhouse gases, into the air from fracking and natural gas production render the use of fracked gas even more deleterious to the climate than burning coal. Professor Mark Z. Jacobson, director of Stanford University’s Atmosphere and Energy Program, will explain that there is a way forward for America that is free of fossil fuels. As he and his colleagues have documented in a groundbreaking study, wind, water and solar resources available to us right now make it possible for our nation to claim true energy independence and protect the health and safety of the generations to come.
America has been forever changed by the sense of grassroots collective drive that your election in 2008 instilled in us as a nation. The grassroots movement that has sprung up across the country and across the world against fracking has all the enthusiasm, positivity, sense of history, endurance and resolve as the one that elected you our President. When speaking to your grassroots campaign staff in 2012, you reminded them that the only way to fight the enormous influence of corporate cash and power in the election was the strength of "neighbor talking to neighbor," of communities coming together to fight for what is right. That is exactly what the grassroots movement against fracking is made of: people fighting for their communities locally, with an eye on the bigger global challenges ahead. Above all, we are a movement of people, not corporations; we are a movement of neighbors who care deeply about the places we live and about this country as a whole. We believe that it is your desire to put the people's interests at the forefront of your political message and it is in this spirit that we ask you to meet with us.
President Obama, we support you. We support your earnest desire to fight climate change, but the science shows that your embrace of natural gas will undermine everything you are trying to accomplish in your plan. And the violation of health and property rights that inexorably accompany drilling and fracking operations undermines any claim of energy independence.
We urge you to meet with us as you have met with the gas industry. We are on your side. We do not wish to see your legacy inscribed by fracking chemicals in the ground, high levels of emissions and pollution in the air, ruined families, broken shards of the American dream, and the terror felt by millions as the drilling industry descends on lands in 34 states. Do not let your legacy be a switch from coal to gas, a Pyrrhic victory, an exchange of one form of climate-killing pollution for another that, over its entire lifecycle, is just as calamitous. Instead, ground your energy policy in careful science and let your legacy include hearing the people out.
In the name of fairness and democracy, we implore that you meet with us, as you have met with the oil and gas industry.
We look forward to your reply. Thank you for considering this request.
Sincerely and in support,
Josh Fox
Director, GASLAND Parts I and II
Milanville, PA 18443
Request to President Obama: Please meet with the Scientists and Families in GASLAND, Part II
July 8th, 2013
Dear President Obama, Vice President Biden, Secretary Moniz, Heather Zichal and Valerie Jarrett,
I write to request a meeting with you and families directly impacted by oil and gas drilling and fracking—as documented in Gasland Part II—together with a small group of scientists and engineers who are also featured in the film. We would like to discuss health and economic impacts felt by communities located near the oil and gas fields, share our first-hand stories, and provide you with evidence on rates of well leakage, water contamination, air pollution and methane emissions.
We are aware that your administration has met with the natural gas industry and their representatives and lobbyists many times. We now ask you to meet with us: representatives of those suffering from unconventional drilling and fracking, and members of the scientific community who wish to inform you of the perils of this unprecedented push to drill.
We believe that the natural gas industry has not been forthcoming with your administration about the real effects of drilling and fracking on our water, air, land, climate, public health and safety—and on democracy itself. As such, we seek to discuss with you the dark side of fracking, a perspective that has not yet been presented to you with adequate weight or emphasis.
In 2008, when I was offered a gas lease on my land in the upper Delaware River watershed in Pennsylvania, I decided to investigate the effects of drilling and fracking around the nation. That investigation became the documentary Gasland. While filming, I discovered widespread water contamination, air pollution, methane leakage, land scarring and massive industrialization of previously rural, suburban or urban areas. Most disturbingly of all, I discovered in the gasfields of America people who had lost control of their lives, their communities, and their human and civil rights.
Although I had never before made a documentary, Gasland was accepted at the Sundance Film festival, picked up by HBO, nominated for the 2011 Academy Award for Best Documentary, and received four Emmy nominations—winning one for my direction. The film has been aired on television in over thirty countries to an estimated audience of 50 million people.
I have now made a second film, Gasland Part II, which covers a new form of contamination— the capture of our regulatory agencies by the oil and gas industry. I document industry’s undue influence on your administration as well as on state and local regulators whose job is to protect the public health and safety. A striking pattern emerges: Time and again, regulators investigating citizens’ concerns determine the gas development operation nearby is a clear cause of water contamination, only to walk away after protest from industry reaches an uncomfortable pitch. The film’s portrayal of the exclusion of “we the people” from the dialogue about the future of energy in the United States should concern you. Gasland Part II premieres today, July 8, on HBO.
We thus respectfully request a meeting with you. More specifically, I wish to introduce you to members of seven families from disparate regions across the nation who have all had their lives ruined by drilling and fracking operations. These families are emblematic. They represent thousands of people who have had their basic rights trampled by drilling on nearby properties and by the attendant gas refining and delivery infrastructure. These citizens include--
• the Lipsky family in Texas, whose water was contaminated and made flammable by Range Resources;
• the Gee Family in Pennsylvania, who, after four generations, were forced off their land by a six-well horizontal drill pad built by Shell on a neighboring property;
• the Fenton family in Wyoming, who have been battling Canadian drilling giant Encana and who are now suffering health problems from the air and water contamination around their house;
• the Tillman family of Dish, Texas, who were forced by polluted air to move from the town that Mr. Tillman was serving as mayor;
• the Switzer and Ely familes of Dimock, Pennsylvania, whose water was shown to be contaminated by both the federal Environmental Protection Agency and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection--only to receive a roller coaster ride of broken promises by both agencies; and
• the Bevins family from West Virginia, whose son CJ was killed on a drilling pad in New York as a result of an unsafe drilling site, and whose campaign has helped alert the country that workers in the oil and gas industry are seven times more likely to die on the job than workers in other industries.
In addition, I would like you to meet with the scientists in the film: Dr. Tony Ingraffea, Dr. Robert Howarth, and Professor Mark Z. Jacobson.
Dr. Ingraffea from Cornell University, a former oil and gas industry researcher, will explain how the industry is incapable of ensuring the integrity of wells being drilled and how the industry's own science shows that wells are leaking at high rates, contaminating our country's precious groundwater. Dr. Howarth, also of Cornell, will describe how the release of methane, one of our most potent greenhouse gases, into the air from fracking and natural gas production render the use of fracked gas even more deleterious to the climate than burning coal. Professor Mark Z. Jacobson, director of Stanford University’s Atmosphere and Energy Program, will explain that there is a way forward for America that is free of fossil fuels. As he and his colleagues have documented in a groundbreaking study, wind, water and solar resources available to us right now make it possible for our nation to claim true energy independence and protect the health and safety of the generations to come.
America has been forever changed by the sense of grassroots collective drive that your election in 2008 instilled in us as a nation. The grassroots movement that has sprung up across the country and across the world against fracking has all the enthusiasm, positivity, sense of history, endurance and resolve as the one that elected you our President. When speaking to your grassroots campaign staff in 2012, you reminded them that the only way to fight the enormous influence of corporate cash and power in the election was the strength of "neighbor talking to neighbor," of communities coming together to fight for what is right. That is exactly what the grassroots movement against fracking is made of: people fighting for their communities locally, with an eye on the bigger global challenges ahead. Above all, we are a movement of people, not corporations; we are a movement of neighbors who care deeply about the places we live and about this country as a whole. We believe that it is your desire to put the people's interests at the forefront of your political message and it is in this spirit that we ask you to meet with us.
President Obama, we support you. We support your earnest desire to fight climate change, but the science shows that your embrace of natural gas will undermine everything you are trying to accomplish in your plan. And the violation of health and property rights that inexorably accompany drilling and fracking operations undermines any claim of energy independence.
We urge you to meet with us as you have met with the gas industry. We are on your side. We do not wish to see your legacy inscribed by fracking chemicals in the ground, high levels of emissions and pollution in the air, ruined families, broken shards of the American dream, and the terror felt by millions as the drilling industry descends on lands in 34 states. Do not let your legacy be a switch from coal to gas, a Pyrrhic victory, an exchange of one form of climate-killing pollution for another that, over its entire lifecycle, is just as calamitous. Instead, ground your energy policy in careful science and let your legacy include hearing the people out.
In the name of fairness and democracy, we implore that you meet with us, as you have met with the oil and gas industry.
We look forward to your reply. Thank you for considering this request.
Sincerely and in support,
Josh Fox
Director, GASLAND Parts I and II
Milanville, PA 18443
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LNG port facility proposed on the best place to body surf in the Atlantic- Jones Beach. Our PUBLIC beach. Time to get ready to fight for our beaches:
Info here:
http://catskillcitizens.org/learnmore/Ambrose_LibertyLNG_FactSheet.pdf
Sign up to comment here:
http://www.riverkeeper.org/news-events/events/other-events/public-meetings-on-port-ambrose-deepwater-lng-port/
In 2012 there were 6000 reported onshore spills of 15.6 million gallons of oil, fracking fluid, waste water and other fluids.
Thats more than the Exxon Valdez spill and averages 16 spills everyday.
Host a Gasland II movie party http://civic.moveon.org/event/gasland2
next Sunday and get MoveOn members onboard the anti-Fracking/pro-Clean Energy movement.
If you are interested in hosting a Gasland II movie party, ple...See More
( Pity they are still detracting from their credibility by pushing climate scare. Look who else has joined the fraud. )
LNG port facility proposed on the best place to body surf in the Atlantic- Jones Beach. Our PUBLIC beach. Time to get ready to fight for our beaches:
Info here:
http://catskillcitizens.org/learnmore/Ambrose_LibertyLNG_FactSheet.pdf
Sign up to comment here:
http://www.riverkeeper.org/news-events/events/other-events/public-meetings-on-port-ambrose-deepwater-lng-port/
Info here:
http://catskillcitizens.org/learnmore/Ambrose_LibertyLNG_FactSheet.pdf
Sign up to comment here:
http://www.riverkeeper.org/news-events/events/other-events/public-meetings-on-port-ambrose-deepwater-lng-port/
In 2012 there were 6000 reported onshore spills of 15.6 million gallons of oil, fracking fluid, waste water and other fluids.
Thats more than the Exxon Valdez spill and averages 16 spills everyday.
Thats more than the Exxon Valdez spill and averages 16 spills everyday.
If you are interested in hosting a Gasland II movie party, ple...See More
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ICYMI: Josh Fox talked with Melissa Harris-Perry on MSNBC about President Barack Obama’s climate speech yesterday. Click below to watch the first clip. http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/52356974
For part 2 go here: http://banfrack.in/15aZTEA
Lots of good in Obama's speech. But he will undo all that good by promoting fracked gas. Methane is up to 105x worse than CO2 for warming.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Energy-Voices/2013/0623/Methane-leaks-of-shale-gas-may-undermine-its-climate-benefits?cmpid=addthis_twitter#.Ucmqj8KnPkU.twitter
FORCED INTO THE FRACKING POOLhttp://blog.shaleshockmedia.org/2013/07/03/forced-into-the-fracking-pool/
new trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzx7UXzK_z4 … Sign up to host a watch party here:http://action.gaslandthemovie.com/p/salsa/web/common/public/signup?signup_page_KEY=7990
ICYMI: Josh Fox talked with Melissa Harris-Perry on MSNBC about President Barack Obama’s climate speech yesterday. Click below to watch the first clip. http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/52356974
For part 2 go here: http://banfrack.in/15aZTEA
For part 2 go here: http://banfrack.in/15aZTEA
Lots of good in Obama's speech. But he will undo all that good by promoting fracked gas. Methane is up to 105x worse than CO2 for warming.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Energy-Voices/2013/0623/Methane-leaks-of-shale-gas-may-undermine-its-climate-benefits?cmpid=addthis_twitter#.Ucmqj8KnPkU.twitter
http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Energy-Voices/2013/0623/Methane-leaks-of-shale-gas-may-undermine-its-climate-benefits?cmpid=addthis_twitter#.Ucmqj8KnPkU.twitter
new trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzx7UXzK_z4 … Sign up to host a watch party here:http://action.gaslandthemovie.com/p/salsa/web/common/public/signup?signup_page_KEY=7990
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzx7UXzK_z4 … Sign up to host a watch party here:http://action.gaslandthemovie.com/p/salsa/web/common/public/signup?signup_page_KEY=7990
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Polish farmers are in a standoff with Chevron. Please sign the petition and SHARE.
Polish farmers are in a standoff with Chevron. Please sign the petition and SHARE.
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Outrageous news of the day Part I: Bill moving through NY State Senate that would be a dire threat to electric cars. I just got a distress call from Elon Musk at Tesla Motors saying the bill would shut down their NY offices and kill all of their jobs as of the fall.
Call you Senators, all of them can be reached with this number: 5184552800
Please take a moment to read, if you are in NY and call your state senators! Thanks.
The issue is essentially this: there’s a bill that special interest groups (mainly auto dealers) are trying to push through the House today. From what we hear from our folks on the ground at the Capitol in Albany, the next 8-10 hours are critical for us to activate publicity and opposition. The bill will prevent Tesla from renewing its sales license this Fall, and we will be forced to shut down our stores and service centres. Terrible news for us, for our employees, for the environment, and horrible news for consumers who will have no way to purchase and register a Tesla vehicle in the state of New York.
The lengthy bill can be found here: http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld&bn=A07844&term=2013&Summary=Y&Text=Y
Statement from TESLA/Elon Musk
“The bottom line for New York consumers and New York suppliers is that if this bill passes, special interests in Albany will once again have gotten their way while robbing New Yorkers of choices in the marketplace, and Tesla will be put out of business in New York. The result would be that all of Tesla’s New York employees will lose their jobs. It means that New York-based suppliers to Tesla will lose business and New York consumers cannot buy the most advanced electric car in the world today. Banning Tesla from selling its vehicles is also a step in the wrong direction for reducing carbon vehicle emissions and the green environmental movement in New York. With the State of New York pushing so hard to lead green innovation supporting entire agencies for energy efficiency like NYSERDA, it is absolutely defies logic to ban Tesla from selling electric cars in New York.
From the beginning, Tesla’s goal has been to catalyze the market for electric vehicles and selling through intermediaries at this stage of the company will not work. For Auto Dealer Associations to claim that restricting competition is in the best interests of the public is wrong and defies obvious common sense. If we are kept out of New York, it forestalls progress and defeats innovation.
Tesla has created jobs in New York at both its stores and service centers and the sales of its vehicles go into supporting the local economy. Tesla remains committed to bringing electric vehicle technology and its customer focused sales and ownership experience to New York consumers, while complying with all local and state laws.”
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Outrageous news of the day Part I: Bill moving through NY State Senate that would be a dire threat to electric cars. I just got a distress call from Elon Musk at Tesla Motors saying the bill would shut down their NY offices and kill all of their jobs as of the fall.
Call you Senators, all of them can be reached with this number: 5184552800
Please take a moment to read, if you are in NY and call your state senators! Thanks.
The issue is essentially this: there’s a bill that special interest groups (mainly auto dealers) are trying to push through the House today. From what we hear from our folks on the ground at the Capitol in Albany, the next 8-10 hours are critical for us to activate publicity and opposition. The bill will prevent Tesla from renewing its sales license this Fall, and we will be forced to shut down our stores and service centres. Terrible news for us, for our employees, for the environment, and horrible news for consumers who will have no way to purchase and register a Tesla vehicle in the state of New York.
The lengthy bill can be found here: http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld&bn=A07844&term=2013&Summary=Y&Text=Y
Statement from TESLA/Elon Musk
“The bottom line for New York consumers and New York suppliers is that if this bill passes, special interests in Albany will once again have gotten their way while robbing New Yorkers of choices in the marketplace, and Tesla will be put out of business in New York. The result would be that all of Tesla’s New York employees will lose their jobs. It means that New York-based suppliers to Tesla will lose business and New York consumers cannot buy the most advanced electric car in the world today. Banning Tesla from selling its vehicles is also a step in the wrong direction for reducing carbon vehicle emissions and the green environmental movement in New York. With the State of New York pushing so hard to lead green innovation supporting entire agencies for energy efficiency like NYSERDA, it is absolutely defies logic to ban Tesla from selling electric cars in New York.
From the beginning, Tesla’s goal has been to catalyze the market for electric vehicles and selling through intermediaries at this stage of the company will not work. For Auto Dealer Associations to claim that restricting competition is in the best interests of the public is wrong and defies obvious common sense. If we are kept out of New York, it forestalls progress and defeats innovation.
Tesla has created jobs in New York at both its stores and service centers and the sales of its vehicles go into supporting the local economy. Tesla remains committed to bringing electric vehicle technology and its customer focused sales and ownership experience to New York consumers, while complying with all local and state laws.”
Call you Senators, all of them can be reached with this number: 5184552800
Please take a moment to read, if you are in NY and call your state senators! Thanks.
The issue is essentially this: there’s a bill that special interest groups (mainly auto dealers) are trying to push through the House today. From what we hear from our folks on the ground at the Capitol in Albany, the next 8-10 hours are critical for us to activate publicity and opposition. The bill will prevent Tesla from renewing its sales license this Fall, and we will be forced to shut down our stores and service centres. Terrible news for us, for our employees, for the environment, and horrible news for consumers who will have no way to purchase and register a Tesla vehicle in the state of New York.
The lengthy bill can be found here: http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld&bn=A07844&term=2013&Summary=Y&Text=Y
Statement from TESLA/Elon Musk
“The bottom line for New York consumers and New York suppliers is that if this bill passes, special interests in Albany will once again have gotten their way while robbing New Yorkers of choices in the marketplace, and Tesla will be put out of business in New York. The result would be that all of Tesla’s New York employees will lose their jobs. It means that New York-based suppliers to Tesla will lose business and New York consumers cannot buy the most advanced electric car in the world today. Banning Tesla from selling its vehicles is also a step in the wrong direction for reducing carbon vehicle emissions and the green environmental movement in New York. With the State of New York pushing so hard to lead green innovation supporting entire agencies for energy efficiency like NYSERDA, it is absolutely defies logic to ban Tesla from selling electric cars in New York.
From the beginning, Tesla’s goal has been to catalyze the market for electric vehicles and selling through intermediaries at this stage of the company will not work. For Auto Dealer Associations to claim that restricting competition is in the best interests of the public is wrong and defies obvious common sense. If we are kept out of New York, it forestalls progress and defeats innovation.
Tesla has created jobs in New York at both its stores and service centers and the sales of its vehicles go into supporting the local economy. Tesla remains committed to bringing electric vehicle technology and its customer focused sales and ownership experience to New York consumers, while complying with all local and state laws.”
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