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Sunday is Earth Day and what better way to show your support than coming out and protesting the coal plants! Everything you need to know is listed below!

Stop the Coal Plants Parade

and Power Plant Tour

Let’s take action for Earth Day… and keep moving toward a Clean Energy future in Texas!

The Stop The Coal Plant/Stop the Coal Rush Coalition urges you to mark your calendars, make your plans to attend, and gather with your family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues to WACO April 22nd for the…
Sunday, April 22nd - Starting at Noon -
Waco, Texas - gathering at Heritage Square
300 Austin Avenue

SEED Coalition, Sierra Club, Keep Waco Green, TPOWER, Democracy for Texas, Robertson County Our Land Our Lives, and Public Citizen invite you to join in a short parade in Waco, followed by a driving tour of the sites of proposed coal-burning power plants in the area.

The Texas Coal Rush is not over! Join us in taking action on Earth Day to stop the coal plants! March in a short parade and join us on an action-oriented power plant tour.

TCEQ will soon make an important decision about whether or not to permit TXU’s Oak Grove, the largest and dirtiest coal plant proposed in Texas.

We’ll ask public officials to take the next steps to stop the coal rush and protect our health. Everyone is welcome at this event and your presence will help make a difference in our push for clean air and clean energy!

Join us in walking (or driving) in a short parade in Waco. You can pull a wagon with children aboard if you’d like and feel free to carry a sign or banner for your organization.

If you want to ride on a float that is being planned, or want to make and bring a float, please let us know. Cars / vans can follow as part of the parade, or you can leave your car parked.

Then we’ll hop into in vans for a driving tour to the proposed coal plant sites and we hope that you’ll ride with us. If you need to, you can take your car and follow the vans, but it will definitely be more fun to ride together.

We’ll bring box lunches for the ride. Please let us know if you prefer a vegetarian meal.

Our power plant tour stops will include:

* The existing Lake Creek Power plant (gas plant)

* LS Power/Dynegy’s site in Riesel for the proposed Sandy Creek coal plant, and

* TXU’s proposed Oak Grove site in Robertson County, where the tower is built already.

* Along the way, we’ll point out the location and direction of the Sempa/PNM Twin Oaks plant near Hammond, the site of the existing TNP coal plant.

We expect to finish up at Oak Grove around 5:00 pm and return to Waco by around 6:30 pm, but the times may vary somewhat.

Register now.
Contact: Karen Hadden, 512-797-8481