TVA Integrated Resource Plan Public Briefing Session

TIME: Monday, November 16 6:00 p.m.
LOCATION: Marriott Hotel, Plaza C in Chattanooga

TVA will hold a public briefing on the Integrated Resource Plan. The presentation will begin with an overview of the planning process and the energy options TVA is considering for meeting the electricity needs of the Valley over the next 20 years. There will be a question and answer session following the briefing.

At 7:30 p.m., there will be a 30-minute listening session with the Stakeholder Review Group. The SRG was created to provide TVA with various stakeholder viewpoints from across the Valley during the Integrated Resource Plan process. During the listening session, audience members can provide comments to the SRG about the process and its outcomes.

For further information about the planning process go to www.tva.com/environment/reports/irp

Special Meeting November 11, 6:00 p.m.

Movie showing: Coal Country
Instead of our strategy meeting this month we will be showing a movie. The movie is Coal Country and it's a new documentary about mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia.

This powerful film reveals the shocking true cost of coal, as it takes us through the personal stories of coal miners, and the residents of Appalachia who have lost their mountains, their homes, and their history to mountaintop removal mining.

Location: GreenSpaces, 63 E. Main Street, Chattanooga

(Green|Spaces is in the first "art district" block after you turn off Market on to Main, last building in the first block on the left. Parking in on the street -- well lit and safe -- kitty corner from fire hall.)

Alert! Coal River Mountain

Last week, Massey Energy began blasting Coal River Mountain in preparation of a massive mountaintop removal coal mining operation. Coal River Mountain is one of the last intact mountains in the range, and the site of a proposed 328-megawatt wind farm. With each passing day, Coal River Mountain’s potential to provide 85,000 households in West Virginia with safe and renewable energy, 700 long-term green jobs, and $1.7 million in annual county tax revenue is erased by Massey Energy and their investors like JPMorgan Chase.

The destruction of Coal River Mountain is also endangering lives. Blasting could destabilize a nearby coal slurry pond, unleashing eight billion gallons of toxic sludge on schools, homes, and workplaces. In the case of a dam failure, citizens would have only minutes to evacuate before a 50-foot wall of sludge bears down on their community.

Please contact the Obama Administration and ask them to stop Coal River Mountain from becoming a 6,000-acre wasteland and instead support safe and renewable sources of energy.

Conservation Discussion

Conservation Discussion: November 4, 6:00 p.m., GreenSpaces, 63 E. Main Street, Chattanooga. Conservation, legislation and political topics facing the group will be up for discussion at 6 p.m. before our Program Meeting each month. Come with questions or concerns as ideas are formulated for club action.

Outings!

October 21, Picnic at Renaissance Park @ 6:00 pm is We will be enjoying a wonderful picnic by the river. Please bring your own food and drinks. Also, please bring any tree or plant identification books you may have, as we will be studying our local plant life.

Coal Country is the stunning new documentary about mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia. This powerful film reveals the shocking true cost of coal, as it takes us through the personal stories of coal miners, and the residents of Appalachia who have lost their mountains, their homes, and their history to mountaintop removal mining. Our party will be one of hundreds of Coal Country House Parties (http://www.sierraclub.org/coalcountry) held nationwide by Sierra Club supporters the week of November 10 through 14.

Thousands of people will be gathering in their communities to watch Coal Country and take action against mountaintop removal. You can be a part of this crucial effort to end mountaintop removal mining, and help move America beyond coal, by attending my Coal Country House Party! Join us for a screening, a discussion, and a special celebrity call-in featuring leaders from the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign, organizers from the Appalachian coalfield (including those featured in the film), and special guests! After the film, we'll take action together to end mountaintop removal mining.

For more information, visit www.coalcountrythemovie.com.

November General Meeting Nov. 30 7:00 p.m.

Come to the MOVIES: "King Corn" -- a humorous and touching documentary about two friends who move to Iowa and grow an acre of corn, meanwhile learning about the massive problems facing our whole biologic/agriculture/economy/food system from the hold that corn now has.