CALL TO ACTION on bad water bills in committee at the AZ State Legislature.

Have you signed up for
Request to Speak?

This is very important. I really need your help to encourage our legislators to oppose some BAD water bills being heard at the Natural Resources: Energy and Water Committee Monday and Thursday. (See details in Sierra Club's update below.) 

To request a Request to Speak account: http://www.cebv.us/

To sign on to Request to Speak: https://apps.azleg.gov/account/signon

Helpful hint: click on New Request in the left column. When they ask if you want to speak, click on no. (You aren't there to speak, right?)

SB1507, SB1515, HB2553, and HB2512 will allow for more development in areas without adequate water, such as Sierra Vista, robbing the San Pedro of its lifeblood. 

As I mentioned in a previous blog, I told our legislators that I am putting together an advocacy group to show support for sustainable policies and to fight bad ones. YOU are that group.  Please, submit a Request to Speak and make some phone calls. It is an uphill battle with Natural Resources Committee Chair Griffin being a real estate agent who is only interested in development - at the cost of our rivers. Our legislators will need support to stand up to her. We are that support.

https://www.azleg.gov/

Select the Senate's Natural Resources: Energy and Water Committee HERE to find Monday and Thursday's agendas.

We can be a force to be reckoned with. We need to be a force to be reckoned with. I will be putting a call out for more advocates at Sustainable Tucson's Civics 101 meeting Tuesday, Feb. 13th at 6 p.m. at Ward 6. Please, invite your friends to come too.

Read the details from the Sierra Club below. It's time to take action!

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Thursday at 2pm or as soon as they finish on the Senate floor, the Senate Natural Resources, Energy, and Water Committee will meet and consider any bills that it did not finish on Monday.

We are trying to get a hearing for SB1475/HB2581, the bills to establish an ecological water program. Next week is the last week for hearing bills in committee in the House of origin, so if you can, please send an email to Representative Bowers asking him to hear HB2581 and an email to Senator Griffin asking her to hear SB1475.

Please contact members of the Senate Natural Resources, Energy, and Water Committee and the House Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources Committee and ask them to oppose bills that weaken water protections. SB1507, SB1515, HB2553, and HB2512 will allow for more development in areas without adequate water, such as Sierra Vista, robbing the San Pedro of its lifeblood.

Also, please sign in on the Request to Speak system and register your opposition to SB1507, SB1515, HB2512, HB2553, and HCR2008.

Sign in to support HB2348 and HB2480 to help promote cleaner air and better monitor the impacts of uranium mining.

If you already have an account on the Request to Speak system, sign on, then select "New Request," enter the bill number in the space that says "Search phrase," The bill should come up below. Select "Add Request." You will then be able to enter whether you are for or against the bill and whether or not you wish to speak. Remember, you can only use the Request to Speak system when a bill is on an active agenda in committee.

- Sandy Bahr
Sierra Club - Grand Canyon Chapter

If you don't have an account for the Request to Speak system, I encourage you to set one up. There are three ways:

1) To request a Request to Speak account go to: http://www.cebv.us/ or a more direct link.

2)  Select Request to Speak,  then select "Create An Account." To activate it sign up at the kiosk at the Capitol or at the Tucson legislative offices at 400 W. Congress, Suite 201.

3) Select Request to Speak, then select "Create An Account" then contact Sandy Bahr from the Sierra Club to help you activate it. sandy.bahr@sierraclub.org

Wanna do more?

Ask members of Senate Natural Resources,
Energy, and Water Committee
to vote NO on SB1507 and SB1515!
Chair. Gail Griffin, Chair, (602) 926-5895
Sen Frank Pratt, Vice-Chair, (602) 926-5761
Sen Sylvia Allen, (602) 926-5409
Sen. Judy Burges (602) 926-5861
Sen. Andrea Dalessandro (602) 926-5342 (I promised her we would show our support)
Sen. Sine Kerr (602) 926-5955
Sen. Lisa Otondo (602) 926-3002
Sen. Jamescita Peshlakai (602) 926-5160

Ask members of the House Energy, Environment,
and Natural Resources to Vote No
on HB2512 and HB2553.
Rep. Rusty Bowers - (602) 926-3128
Rep. Brenda Barton - (602) 926-4129
Rep. David Cook - (602) 926-5162
Rep. Eric Descheenie (602) 926-4846
Rep. Kirsten Engel - (602) 926-5178
Rep. Sally Ann Gonzales (602) 926-3278
Rep. Vince Leach (602) 926-3106
Rep. Paul Mosley (602) 926-4844