Click here to read the testimony on LD 2048 submitted by the Maine Council of Churches and by MCC Board Vice President Marc Mutty on behalf of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland
Response to this winter's energy/heating costs crisis
Maine Council of Churches is participating in a coalition of government and non-profit agencies working on a response to this winter's energy/heating costs crisis. Our role is to distribute information that churches may find useful in helping parishioners and others in their community meet their heating needs this winter. For now, this information is included in this attached document, which you are invited to share with your congregation.
MCC's own Andy Burt was part of the featured article in the October 27 Portland Press Herald religion and values section (on Rev. Martha Kirkpatrick, the new Missioner for Environmental Stewardship for the Episcopal Diocese of Maine)? Click here to view the article.
On Tuesday July 10, 2007, Andy Burt, director of the Maine Council of Churches' Environmental Justice Program, participated along with 20 other community organizations in a press conference in support of the Black Nubble Wind Power project currently under consideration by Maine's Land Use Regulation Commission.
A story about the project by staff writer Allan Crowell in the Morning Sentinel quoted Andy's statements on behalf of the Council:
Andy Burt , director of the environmental justice program of the Maine Council of Churches, said her organization supports Black Nubble because of concerns about climate change.
The council represents mainstream Protestant churches and the Roman Catholic Diocese, said Burt.
She said her organization considers climate change one of the greatest moral issues in the world today.
"It really is a moral choice to change how we decide to generate and to use electricity," she said. "I think it is very much in keeping with teachings which are really at the heart of every faith tradition."
In the Judeo-Christian tradition, Burt said, the first commandment that was given to Adam and Eve was to take care of the garden.
"We actually are destroying the very systems that sustain life," she said.
The full story is available at www.nrcm.org/news
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