[OccupyCU] Fwd: Champaign County Environment and Land Use Committee to Vote on Resolution to Protect Salt Fork from Coal Mine

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From: "Jonathan Ashbrook" <jonashbrook at gmail.com> 
To: "Jonathan Ashbrook" <jonashbrook at gmail.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2013 10:43:10 AM 
Subject: Champaign County Environment and Land Use Committee to Vote on Resolution to Protect Salt Fork from Coal Mine 



Hello everyone, 

In addition to tonight's public meeting at the Urbana Champaign Sanitary District to discuss water sales to the proposed coal mine (as well as a fertilizer plant in Tuscola), we just found out this morning that the Environment and Land Use Committee (ELUC) of the Champaign County Board will consider a resolution opposing water withdrawals from the Salt Fork River for washing coal at Hallador Energy and Sunrise Coal's proposed Bulldog mine southeast of Homer. 
Please join us for the ELUC meeting at  6:00 pm Thursday May 9th, 2013 in the Lyle Shields Meeting Room, Brookens Administrative Center, Urbana 



In April, the News-Gazette reported that Sunrise Coal has approached the Urbana Champaign Sanitary District (UCSD) with a request to guarantee that their Urbana sewage treatment plant will discharge between 325,000 to 540,000 gallons per day that the mine would withdraw from the Salt Fork River to wash coal at their proposed coal mine. 

Clean sewage treatment plant effluent from UCSD helps protect the health of the Salt Fork River , particularly during low flow times of the year. After months of deliberation, the Homer Village Board came to a unanimous decision against selling raw water to Sunrise coal, determining that the area's water resources should not be used to wash coal. Area residents and farmers are concerned that Sunrise's underground coal mine and surface coal washing and waste disposal will deplete water resources, pollute the Salt Fork River, and damage farmland. 

The County Board has a crucial opportunity protect Champaign County's clean water and healthy farmland, by voting yes on the resolution opposing water sales to to the proposed coal mine. 

TAKE ACTION: Let Your County Board members know you support protecting the Salt Fork River and farmland from coal mine - ask them to vote yes on the resolution! 

Environment and Land Use Committee: 

    • Ralph Langenheim , Chair, District 9:  (217) 344-5285, rlangenh at hotmail.com 
    • Aaron Esry , Vice-Chair, District 3: (217) 552-6470, ale7496 at yahoo.com 
    • Astrid Berkson , District 9: (217) 356-4747, astridjb at comcast.net 
    • Stanley Harper , District 3: (217) 369-2986, harper80 at aol.com 
    • Alan Kurtz , District 7: (217) 356-0011, akurtz8 at comcast.net 
    • Pattsi Petrie , District 6: pattsi2 at gmail.com 
    • Jonathan Schroeder , District 4: (217) 598-2327, jonschroeder62 at gmail.com 



 Thank you for your support! 


Sincerely, 

Jonathan Ashbrook for Stand Up to Coal 

Don't forget: updated information is always available at our website: http://www.standuptocoal.org 

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