Today I attended a 10 a.m. press conference in New Canaan, in which Governor M. Jodi Rell and Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced that the State of Connecticut were filing suit to halt the implementation of the FAA's "unlawful" flight plan.
They were joined by First Selectman Judy Neville, who announced that the Alliance for Sensible Airspace Planning, a consortium of 11 towns and cities were filing suit in the 2nd District Court in New York. Absent was Congressman Christopher Shays, whose Chief of Staff, Paul Pimental, read a statement on behalf of Connecticut's 4th District Congressman.
During the question period that followed I declared that "we will prevail" over the FAA and announced that Congressman Shays will address the public directly at the Saturday November 3rd Step It Up: Who's the Leader? rally in front of Town Hall in New Canaan. Congressman Shays will address both climate change challenges we face and the next steps in terms of lobbying Congress to create a more sensible transportation policy that offers a genuine competitive and sustainable travel modes to climate change-inducing air travel. Its our increasing dependency on air travel that creates our crowded skies. The details of the rally are below.
Who: New Canaan Environmental Group
What: Step It Up 2: Clear Skies and Climate Change Rally
Where: Town Hall steps, 77 Main Street, New Canaan
Date: Saturday November 3, 2007
Time: 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Contact: Richard Stowe at 594-9097, or ncenvironmentalpolitics@yahoo.com
For more information, visit: http://stepitupnewcanaan.blogspot.com/
The New Canaan Environmental Group is holding a local Step It Up 2: Who's A Leader? November 3rd National
Day for Action rally on the steps of New Canaan Town Hall this Saturday November 3, 2007 from 4 to 5:30
p.m., rain or shine.
The November 3rd "Clear Skies, Climate Change" rally in front of Town Hall coincides with the State of
Connecticut's decision announced earlier today, November 1st, at New Canaan Town Hall to take legal
action against the FAA's September 5th Record of Decision on its Airspace Plan.
The rally will address airspace plan challenge and challenges we face in crafting and passing quality
veto-proof climate change (global warming) legislation.
Congressman Christopher Shays, the keynote speaker, will address the crowd at 5 p.m. Other speakers
include New Canaan First Selectman Judy Neville, New Canaan Selectman Paul Giusti, State Representative
John Hetherington, State Representative William Tong, Heather Wolf (Our Airspace http://ourairspace.org).
Check back here on the Step It Up New Canaan site for further updates.
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