[BCNnet] RE: Action alert BP public hearing in Indy

[Carolyn A. Marsh]

August 10, 2007

Action alert

 

Please call Rep. Scott Pelath and urge him to allow Carolyn Marsh to speak
before his committee on August 22. His Indianapolis Office number is
1-800-382-9842 (toll-free Indiana) or 317-232-9621. Visit:
<http://www.in.gov/legislative/house_democrates/repsites/r0?R09_2007024.html
>

 

Yesterday, I called Indiana House Rep. Scott Pelath (D-Michigan City) office
in Indianapolis to ask to speak before the formal public hearing, August 22,
on the Indiana Department of Environmental Management's controversial
decision to grant a wastewater discharge permit to BP in Whiting. 

 

According to his press release (dated July 24, 2007), Rep. Pelath will
invite the Save the Dunes Council and the League of Women voters and other
interested parties to highlight their concerns about the permit. Both groups
are based in Michigan City.

 

His assistant returned the call the same day and said the speakers list is
full and complete, but I'm invited to attend and submit a written comment. I
asked why a well-known environmentalist from Whiting was not invited to
speak? Who is on the speaker's list? And, how many on the list live in
Whiting? She didn't know. I think it is very important for Rep. Pelath's
committee to hear from a Whiting environmentalist that BP appointed to its
BP Citizens' Advisory Committee. I sure would love to be in the room during
IDEM Commissioner Easterly's testimony and that of BP representatives. 

 

I would also like to know who is invited to speak in the hopes that
arrangements can be made to carpool to the public hearing in Indianapolis. 

 

Please call Rep. Scott Pelath and urge him to allow Carolyn Marsh to speak
before his committee. His Indianapolis Office number is 1-800-382-9842
(toll-free Indiana) or 317-232-9621. Visit: <

http://www.in.gov/legislative/house_democrates/repsites/r0?R09_2007024.html>

 

 

Carolyn Marsh

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