[bouldercouncilhotline] Hotline: FW: 2014 Boulder Legislative Priorities

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Sender: Weaver, Sam

All,
 
I wanted to take a moment and correct my suggestion #3 for our legislative agenda this year:
 
I had written:
 
3) Support for state and federal policy that protects excessive customer charges by utilities for net metering of distributed generation, especially renewables and efficiency generation.
 
I should have written:
 
3) Support for state and federal policy that protects 
AGAINST excessive customer charges by utilities for net metering of distributed generation, especially renewables and efficiency generation.
 
Also, in support of my suggestions about oil and gas regulations, I would like to draw attention to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published this week.  It indicates that the US is likely to be emitting 1.5 times as much
 methane into the atmosphere as the EPA currently estimates, much of it from oil and gas extraction operations.  It makes aggressive control of these harmful emissions an even bigger local, state, and national issue.
 
http://wvpubcast.org/post/us-may-be-producing-50-percent-more-methane-epa-thinks
 
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/11/20/1314392110
 
All the best,

 

Sam Weaver
Member of Boulder City Council
weavers at bouldercolorado.gov
Phone: 303-416-6130




From: Weaver, Sam
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 3:10 PM
To: Council
Cc: Castillo, Carl
Subject: 2014 Boulder Legislative Priorities





Last night I suggested three additional legislative priorities at our meeting:
 
1) Support for a carbon tax at both the state and federal levels
 
2) Support for legislation that creates best practices around oil and gas extraction (see attached report from the International Energy Agency on this subject, entitled Golden Rules for a Golden Age of Gas).
 
3) Support for state and federal policy that protects excessive customer charges by utilities for net metering of distributed generation, especially renewables and efficiency generation.
 
Many thanks,
Sam Weaver