CALPINE LNG PULLS OUT OF HUMBOLDT

what about Calpine's plan to geothermally drill Medicine Lake in Modoc County? This sacred lake has healing waters that several indigenous tribes value as traditional medicine. Calpine's geothermal drilling would release subsurface hydrogen sulfide in large amounts that could precipitate into Medicine Lake and chemically alter the healing waters into toxic brew..

Most of the energy Calpine would get from geothermal drilling of Medicine Lake would be exported to either Reno of High Desert State Prison in Susanville (maximum security housing requires alot of energy).

right wing republican Congressman Wally Herger is in the pocket of Calpine and GW Bush, friendly to any big business, especially the stepchild of ENRON that Calpine is..

it is likely that Calpine will gain approval from the Herger Klan and begin geothermal drilling of Medicine Lake..

March 17, 2003
Please forward far and wide:

Medicine Lake Update: **Lawsuit decision favors development!!!

TAKE ACTION NOW: **Stop experimental chemical testing! ** Ask Energy Commission to pull $50 million in subsidies! ** Tell Calpine to withdraw from Medicine Lake and Bonneville to drop contract!!! **Support a local movie showing or benefit in your area!!

Fourmile Hill Lawsuit Favored Geothermal Energy Development at Medicine Lake!!!

Fourmile Hill is the first of two power plants Calpine currently would like build at Medicine Lake. Last September the Pit River Tribe, Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center (MSBEC), and Native Coalition for Medicine Lake Highlands Defence sued to stop the Fourmile Hill Power Plant and subsequent pipelines, roads, power lines and toxic sumps. The lawsuit was based on Cumulative Environmental Impacts to pure water, air, and Native American cultural values. Those trying to defend the Medicine Lake highlands found no justice in the courts - they lost the lawsuit on all counts so far. The time has come to step up the pressure for Medicine Lake!

Stop Experimental Chemical Testing at Medicine Lake - Come to a Meeting in Late
April.

The Water Quality Control Board will hold a public hearing on April 22 or 23 in Sacramento (details change often, please call to confirm) to decide on Calpine's proposal to use experimental technology at Medicine Lake. The experimental technology involves injecting hydrofluoric and hydrochloric acids into test wells at Medicine Lake to create more geothermal activity. What's at stake is the health of the largest aquifer in California that feeds into the water supplies of many cities. This practice is largely experimental, undocumented and has been found to cause earthquakes and could pollute water. The most likely company to perform this harmful experimental practice is none other then war profiteer Halliburton (Dick Cheney's former company that is being investigated for illegal business dealings in Iraq). Extensive testing of this experimental drilling must be undertaken before allowing Calpine to move forward at Medicine Lake. Demand that the Water Quality Board undergo widespread testing to determine the long-term effects of such experimental drilling. Please come out to Sacramento on the 22 or 23 (Call for details) or write to the Water Quality Board and urge them to not allow this harmful practice at Medicine Lake!

Stop Taxpayer Subsidies to Calpine

The California Energy Commission and Department of Energy are subsidizing the destruction of Medicine Lake with your tax dollars. They will then sell it back to you "green energy." Ever since the "Energy Crisis" that Calpine helped to create with ENRON, the California Energy Commission has been awarding Calpine millions to build and experiment at Medicine Lake. Public money has been given for unapproved public lands projects and roadless areas incursions. The taxpayer money being used is supposed to go to real green energy projects not to cut old growth and pollute wild lands and possibly ground water. The Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center and other groups working on Medicine Lake have asked for the Commission to direct money toward projects that will benefit minority and low income communities, not ones with documented environmental justice impacts, such as Medicine Lake. Over $50 million of our dollars have already been awarded to Calpine despite their role in ripping off West Coast rate-payers in the "Energy Crisis."

Take action , Contact the California Energy Commissioners and ask them to:

***Stop funding environmental destruction at the Medicine Lake Highlands and to rescind the $50 million already awarded. ***Stop funding projects that have negative environmental impacts, such as at Medicine Lake. ***Stop funding companies that knowingly participated in price fixing in California.

Commissioner John Geesman Commissioner James Boyd phone# 916 654-4001
phone# 916-954 3787
fax: 916 654 4420
fax 916 654-4420

Address for both :
CA ENERGY COMMISSION ,
1516 Ninth St. MS-31
Sacramento, CA 95814

Tell Calpine to Get out of Medicine Lake!!

Calpine has ignored everyone from the United Nations Indian Treaty Council to the local home owners on requests to pull out of Medicine Lake. It's time for them to hear from the public. Write a letter, make a phone call or plan a demonstration at your local Calpine office (call for more locations)

Calpine Corporate Headquarters
50 West San Fernanado St.
San Jose CA, 95513
phone # 503 223-2300

Calpine Portland Office
805 SW Broadway, Suite 1850,
Portland, OR 97205
phone #408 995-5115

Calpine Washington DC office,
1350 Eye St. NW Suite 1270
Washington DC, 10005

Tell Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) to cancel the Fourmile Hill Contract and oppose Medicine Lake Development!!!
US Department of Energy,
BPA PO Box 3621
Portland, OR 97208-3621

For the best updated information on the current situation at Medicine Lake or details on the Water Quality meeting contact the Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center at (530) 926-5655 and ask to be sent the most recent newsletter.

For more information or if you are interested in a movie showing,tabling or benefit in your area contact:

Medicine Lake Defence Project at 541-482-2640 or email regina at kswild.org. We have outreach packets and photos available for tabling.

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http://www.mountshastaecology.org/12medicinelake16spring2004status.html


Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center

Save Medicine Lake Highlands

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Spring 2004 News by Michelle Berditschevsky and Peggy Risch

(Excerpt below -- See URL for entire article)


STATUS OF
CALIFORNIA ENERGY COMMISSION SUBSIDIES

Money: The only thing 'green' about Geothermal

Since our fall 2003 newsletter, the California Energy Commission (CEC) has continued to evaluate the conditions of the 2002 Resolution that extended the nearly $50 million dollars in conditional awards granted to Calpine in 1999 for both the Telephone Flat and Fourmile Hill projects. In 1998 the energy companies applied to the CEC for funding the geothermal developments, setting forth an (unrealistic) power plant operational date of January 2001. Both projects failed to meet that deadline. Telephone Flat was still denied. Calpine claimed that they met the criteria for extension. Despite our participation in the hearings, the resulting CEC Resolution granted Calpine an extension with stipulations: Calpine must be able to start construction by June 2003 (that didn't happen) and be on-line by December 2005. Over the last 10 months, the Ecology Center, with the participation of the Native Coalition, has continued to request that the CEC cancel Calpine's funding awards because the objectives of the Resolution were not and cannot be met.

In 2002 the California Energy Commission also funded geothermal surveys and granted Calpine over $1 million to drill a deep well in the 10,800 acre Mount Hoffman Roadless Area. At that hearing, the CEC ignored our comments that such activities would be contrary to law in a Roadless Area. The good news is we were right and no drilling occurred. However, Calpine transferred the money to a different site with the CEC's nod of approval.

Calpine receives additional money from the Department of Energy (DOE). The most recent award is the subject of our intense scrutiny and opposition. DOE funded Calpine's program to inject highly hazardous acids in order to fracture the reservoir in hopes of making the resource more economical. Halliburton Corporation is the proposed contractor.

Calpine has already received many other monetary awards, including nearly $2 million for the exploratory drilling at the Fourmile Hill site. So let's be very clear about one thing-these financial subsidies from DOE and the CEC will make or break geothermal development in the sacred Medicine Lake Highlands. We know that the public would not support power plants that would desecrate the Medicine Lake Highlands, but ironically it is their money that the California Energy Commission disperses in form of awards.



PLEASE TAKE ACTION!

We're asking readers to contact the California Energy Commissioners with the following requests:

Stop funding geothermal activities at the MLHs

Cancel the two conditional awards of nearly $50 million for Fourmile Hill and Telephone Flat

Implement Renewable Portfolio Standard guidelines that favor projects benefiting minority and low-income population and include language which would exclude funding those projects which have documented Envionmental Justice impacts. This would make the Medicine Lake Highlands ineligible for funding.

Commissioner John Geesman
Phone: 916-654-4001
FAX: 916-654-4420
California Energy Commission
1516 Ninth Street, MS-31
Sacramento, CA 95814

Commissioner James Boyd
Phone: 916-654-3787
FAX: 916-654-4420
California Energy Commission
1516 Ninth Street, MS-34
Sacramento, CA 95814

Link to contact information on CEC Commissioners
http://www.energy.ca.gov/commission/commissioners/index.html

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Calvert Fund Takes StrongPosition toward Calpine

Native Coalition members were active in a campaign to discredit Calpine Corporation's profile as a socially responsible company. The Calvert Social Investment Fund recently issued a Shareholders' Resolution demanding that Calpine "cease and desist" from its activities in the sacred Medicine Lake Highlands. The hope is that other socially-responsible investment firms will follow suit

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(Note: LOTS of more good info at: http://www.mountshastaecology.org/12medicinelake.html )

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Calpine would have eliminated what is left of the fishing industry in Humboldt Bay. The LNG plant would NOT have created jobs, it would have destroyed them. That's not good for the fisherpeople.

Your bookstore example doesn't work. I made more money working in an independent bookstore than at a Big 'N Nasty chain store. But speaking of chains, the ones we use to lock down to old-growth trees are the best.