HEAL Utah July Community Night

HEAL July Community Night:

"How To Become a Rocky Mountain

Rabble-Rouser"

Each of us does what we can to make our world safer and cleaner: Perhaps we drive a fuel-efficient car, bike when we can, and choose to live near where we work. Maybe we keep the thermostat a bit lower in the winter and a bit higher in the summer.

All are important steps to green our lives. However, many of us don’t think much about an action we take each month with an even greater impact: Paying our electric bills. The power we consume – and the dollars we pay for it – may have more to do with how we shape our public health and the environment than anything else. However, we rarely have direct influence over that power: We don’t get to pick our utility. And most of us don’t have the tools to know how to convince our utilities to clean up their act.

Until now. HEAL Utah is pleased to invite you to our July Community Night, a special strategy session devoted to prepare for a one-time only public hearing where you can make your voice heard, and put the pressure on Rocky Mountain Power to move in a cleaner, greener direction. This exciting Community Night, “How To Become a Rocky Mountain Rabble-Rouser,” is this coming Wednesday, July 20, at 6 p.m. (Details below.) We then hope that some of you, newly equipped, will then be able to attend Rocky Mountain Power’s rate case hearing the following week, at 5 p.m. - July 28. (Details below.)

That hearing is when Utahns have the opportunity – which precious few of us exercise – to let the company know what we think of its request for the largest rate hike in its history, mostly focused on its aging coal fleet. The utility is seeking a massive $232 million increase that if approved by state utility regulators would raise the typical Utah homeowner’s payment by nearly 14 percent, or $120 a year.

Here’s what troubles us most about that rate hike increase – much of that money will go to retrofit outdated, polluting coal plants. Rocky Mountain Power wants to spend tens of millions of our money to put expensive pollution controls on dirty coal plants which darken our skies and sicken our children.

That’s bad news – but the good news is that this is our chance, as empowered citizens, to let them know we demand they go in a different direction. That it’s time to lay the groundwork to transition Utah’s old and dirty coal plants to renewable energy, not sign up for billions of dollars of retrofits. It’s time to take that same investment and put it toward renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Please join us on Wednesday to find out more about Rocky Mountain Power’s costly coal power retrofit rate hikes – and what you can do about it.

What: HEAL Utah’s July Community Night,
       “How To Become a Rocky Mountain Rabble-Rouser.”
When: 6:30 PM - Wednesday, July 20.
Where: The Washington Square Cafe, 451 S State Street.
       Located on the lower level of the Salt Lake City/County Building
       and one-half block west of the Library Stop on the University
       TRAX Line.

And, mark your calendars now for the public hearing where you can make your voice heard.

When: 5 p.m., Thursday July 28
Where: Room 403 of the Heber M. Wells Building
       160 East 300 South, Salt Lake City

See you Wednesday!

Christopher Thomas
Executive Director
HEAL Utah


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