An open letter to Mayor Rybak
Dear Mayor Rybak,
The general public perceives you as supposedly more environmentally
friendly than your opponent Mr. McLaughlin.
However, the proposed Minneapolis sustainability indicator targets from
your department, that I have had the pleasure to work and comment on as a
member of the Mpls. Citizens Environmental Advisory Committee clearly do
LESS than state law already requires utilities to do.
1. What is your proposal to increase renewable energy and energy
efficiency, and reduce greenhouse gases in the City? Both St. Paul mayoral
candidates have committed to increasing renewable purchases within the City
to minimum of 24 percent. Can you outdo them?
2. More specifically, what will you do to ensure new buildings in the City
are built to high energy efficiency standards and include renewable energy
when appropriate? I see developments especially in my SW neighborhood
where these issues are ignored ("unenforceable"). As you know, many
developers sell their buildings after several years, and hence don't care
about the long-term energy costs that they will strap their future tenants
with, also ignoring the impacts to the larger community. What will you do
to ensure the energy efficiency of our future building stock?
3.If you are not going to start a "Department of the Environment", is it
too much to ask to have one person, at a high level of authority, reporting
directly to department heads or the Mayor, to be in charge of initiatives
to centralize information on the city 's energy expenditures and green
house
gas production, to increase energy efficiency and renewables in the City?
Can you commit to this?
Please respond before the elections, as voters need to make up their minds
whom to support.
Sincerely,
Christine Ziebold MD PhD MPH
Citizens Environmental Advisory Committee (CEAC)
Resident of CARAG
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