HDTC Events
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| Gulf Oil Spill Resolution Adopted |
| Sunday, August 1st 2010 |
| HDTC July Meeting |
| Hebron Town Office Building Tuesday, July 20, 2010 Hebron Ct. 06248 |
RESOLUTION REGARDING GULF OIL SPILL
ADOPTED BY THE HEBRON DEMOCRATIC TOWN COMMITTEE JULY 20, 2010, BY UNANIMOUS VOTE
RESOLVE: Because we, the Hebron Democratic Town Committee, believe that:
1. The oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico is a calamitous disaster, and
2. This event has already caused extensive personal, financial and environmental
losses, and
3. This event has the potential to destroy the foundation of the food chain in the
Gulf, and possibly well beyond the Gulf, and
4. This loss of food could lead to the destruction of marine, bird, and mammal
species in the Gulf, and possibly beyond, and
5. This event demonstrates that our continuing dependence on fossil fuel energy
sources leaves us vulnerable to repeated damaging oil spills, and
6. This event has caused, and will continue to cause, irreparable damage to the
welfare of our nation in the near future, and to the lives of our children and their
children,
We therefore petition the President of the United States and the Senators and
Representatives from Connecticut to:
1. Respond to this event as an ongoing threat to the security and well-being of our
nation, and
2. Assume more stringent oversight, on a national security basis, of the collection
of oil in the waters of the Gulf, prevention of oil coming ashore, and cleanup where
prevention efforts fail, utilizing all available Federal, State and private
resources, and
3. Require BP to make all efforts to control and stop the loss of oil from the
blowout well, and
4. Take any necessary steps to ensure that BP and other parties responsible for this
event will pay for all damages, remediation, income loss, and other costs caused by
the event, and
5. Provide Federal funding and other incentives to put the development of
alternative energy sources, and the infrastructure to support its utilization, on a
priority basis as if it were a wartime necessity, recognizing
A. That the creation of jobs that this will entail will offset a significant
portion, if not all, of the costs, and
B. That a nationwide energy grid powered by renewable resources may reduce the cost
of energy, and
C. That the use of renewables will lessen our national dependence on, and
vulnerability to, foreign resources, and
6. Require regulation and enforcement of all drilling, storage and transmission
infrastructure to safeguard against future accidents of this type.
Furthermore, we authorize and urge the Chairman of the Hebron Democratic Town
Committee, or his designee, to promptly submit copies of this resolution to the
Office of the President of the United States, the U.S. Senators and Representatives
from Connecticut, our Governor and State Senator and Representative, and current
candidates for these offices, as well as to appropriate media outlets.
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