ICC: update on Dec. 12 meeting with politicians

Art Carter, and Gregg and Melissa Price, went to the Tuesday meeting with local elected representatives. Here's a brief update from Melissa:

"Gregg and I went on Tuesday, and Art. It was an opportunity for the community to voice their opinions on the ICC to the senators. They had some large maps of where the road would be, etc. However, the senators did not really say anything that really would convince them to change their minds, since it has already been approved. They were saying that right now the only
thing that could stop the ICC now would be an an envionmental lawsuit. We learned that there is a group out there, that is in the works of putting a lawsuit out in early Dec. (Jean might know the name of that group?) I felt I learned the most from Jean's son Greg, who was at the meeting. He did an excellent job in voicing his opinions and sharing the environmental facts etc."

Greg Smith, who is Jean Smith's son, is planning to attend the Sunday Dec. 17 meeting at my house. Note that the two lawsuits Melissa mentions are planned from the Audubon (on violations of the National Environmental Policy Act), and Environmental Defense/Sierra Club (on the reported failure to assess the impact of pollutants on local communities). They are slated to be filed by the Dec. 20 deadline.