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DESCRIPTION:For Immediate Release                           \n\n\nFebruary 20, 2007     
          \n\n\nContacts:  Mark LeBeau 916.801.4422\nMorning Star Gali 
 510.827.6719 \n\n\n\n Sacred Medicine Lake Near Mt. Shasta Faces 
 Destruction! \n\nBattle Continues as Bureau of Land Management Announces 
 Plans to Appeal the Ninth Circuit Court Ruling In Favor of Pitt River Tribe 
 To Continue their Proposal for a Geothermal Power Plant \n\nNative American 
 Tribes and Environmental Groups To Protest At BLM’s Office In Alturis to 
 Demand Religious Freedom and Environmental 
 Justice!\n_______________________________________________________________________\nWhat: 
    PROTEST\nWhen: 12:00 PM\nTuesday, February 20, 2007\nWhere: BLM Office\n 
                        708 W. 12th St., Alturas, CA\n\n\nWho: Speakers at 
 the protest include Jonothan Freeman of Seventh Generation Fund, Advocates 
 for the Protection of Sacred Sites, Radley Davis and Mark LeBeau of the 
 Pitt River Nation. Sponsors include International Indian Treaty Council, 
 Indigenous Environmental Network, and Redding Rancheria Cultural 
 Department.\n\nWhy: Medicine Lake Highlands, which are located near Mt. 
 Shasta, CA are under attack! Bureau Of Land Manangement, California Energy 
 Commission, and Calpine Energy company have recently indicated that they 
 will attempt to carry out their geothermal power plants proposal and appeal 
 of the Ninth Circuit Court Hearing that was in favor of the Pitt River 
 Tribe. \n\nTheir proposal not only destroys fragile ecosystems, but 
 directly undermines Native American cultural integrity, trampling their 
 right to religious freedom. The Medicine Lake Highlands have significant 
 spiritual and cultural value to Pitt River Tribes (and putting a power 
 plant there would desecrate this sacred and traditionally important 
 area).\n\nThe proposal requires drilling to 9000 feet beneath the surface; 
 require injection and extraction of large amounts of toxins that can cause 
 cancer or birth defects such as arsenic, mercury, and hydrogen sulfide; 
 create a situation for accidental releases of acids and chemicals into the 
 shallow water table or maintenance-related pipeline ruptures and 
 explosions; replace the natural surface environment with toxic slump ponds, 
 roads, pipelines, and cooling towers; have the potential to cause 
 earthquakes, volcanic eruptions or avalanches; SAY THE FOLLOWING IN A 
 SUCCINCT WAY  THAT IS CLEARER OR OMIT IT: harness this energy and peddle it 
 as “green energy”; not simply trap steam or mine hot water from natural 
 geysers. ….that would likely cause irreversible contamination of the air, 
 water, plants, and wildlife in the region and threaten the underlying 
 aquifer – which is California’s largest pure spring system and flows 
 into the Fall River and joins with the Pit River and winds into the 
 Sacramento River and San Francisco Bay.\nThe federal government must ban 
 such development out of respect for American Indian religious and 
 traditional use rights and to fulfill its fiduciary responsibility to the 
 tribal governments of the area and act in their best interests. The 9th 
 Circuit reversed a lower court decision indicating that the federal 
 agencies neglected their fiduciary responsibilities to the Pit River Nation 
 by violating the National Environmental Protection and the National 
 Historic Preservation Acts and that the agencies never took the requisite 
 “hard look” at whether the Highlands should be developed for energy at 
 all.   This notice came as no surprise to many Native peoples who are used 
 to government policies and statements shifting like the wind.\n\nNative 
 peoples, lawmakers, homeowners, ranchers, fishing enthusiasts, 
 environmentalists and other citizens and surrounding towns have 
 consistently opposed this project and demands a halt to the disastrous 
 proposal and vow to nonviolently defend Medicine Lake from any attempts to 
 build power plants in this sacred and natural area. Over 200 tribal members 
 and environmental justice advocates rallied in front of Calpine Energy 
 Company’s Headquarters on January 29, 2007. Pitt River tribal 
 representatives handed Calpine a Notice Of Eviction.\n\n\n\n# # # #\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/02/19/18365564.php
SUMMARY:Protest BLM Office in Alturas!
LOCATION:708 W 12th Street\nAlturas, CA 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/02/19/18365564.php
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