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Mur Power Station: Creating A Critical Public

Please, support our campaign for the creation of a critical public!

Dear fellow campaigners!

I have already tried before the elections to make contributions to the best of my ability. On February 6^th, which was the blackest day of my life for me, it was clear to me that I will try everything in order to make this disastrous destruction of nature and the waste of tax money pertaining to it the subject of discussion and to prevent it with the help of other fellow beings.

From this day on I have handed out countless leaflets, have hung up posters, have joined meetings, have documented with photos and videos, have written articles and info sheets. During this time I also had to realize that there are still so many uninformed or credulous people living in this town despite the large amount of enlightenment. These people have to be shaken up urgently so that they realize what this construction will actually mean for them, for their children and their future.

I have experienced that many people who wanted to take action have given up because everything was going too “slow” for them or they didn’t know what to do of the many things that are to be done, as the operating authorities of the construction always seem to be one step ahead which is not really a surprise, if you see how they positively buy everything by sponsoring, adorn every activity in this way with their logo, falsify contents and flood with their ideologies. This all happens at the expense of the consumers and tax payers as well who help to finance glossy advertising, bulk mail and many other things without being asked.

As someone who is artistically active it was fairly soon reasonable to hold up a mirror to all companies involved, to the politicians who are doing the groundwork and above all to the “money”, and to try to use the same decadent means; but this time, financed freely, independently and above all on one’s own volition.

The question as to how this can be translated into action was soon settled for me. A 16-sheet of paper placard should be the best way to do it. A placard as big and as stroppy as one used for an election and an appropriate information campaign which would include everything which was, everything which is and everything which will be in a structured way, so as to make the own search and finally the own contribution palatable and logical to curious people.

A title for the slogan and the website was found soon. Because of the fact that the construction is a pretty ‘botch-up’ (for which the German word is ‘Murks’ with an informal spelling ‘Murx’), the placard and the website as well have now (see attachment) the title “murXkraftwerk” (www.murxkraftwerk.at). For the very reason that this botch-up involves ecological and economic damages which will also be on the mind of our children and which will accompany them for a lifetime, there is a child on the placard laughing and one can read the slogan “Don’t botch my future!” (which should be understood as a demand not to burden this (and other) young lives and to get people doing something about it). To encourage citizens who are still indecisive, wrongly informed but also very energetic, to assist, there is also the invitation: “Get active yourself, otherwise it will fail!”

The publication of the placard takes place on Monday, 19^th June 2017. From then, 20 large-sized placards are to be seen for one month (!!!!) at different places of the town (the best places were carefully chosen from the free places to hang them and are to be found in the attachment). It would be fine if these could be observed and checked a little bit by fellow campaigners living in the vicinity so that spoiling or damages can be immediately documented and repaired respectively! Whoever is able to offer his help, please do report to me and tell me which locations you will keep a close eye on.

At the same time the website goes online. All that is worth knowing will be taken up. The website is bilingual and offers the opportunity to register for the newsletter. It has an appointments diary in which all appointments will be entered and there are plans that a chance for forum or group discussions will be offered.

I express my VERY THANKS this way to all those who have made this project possible with their ideas, their active support and their financial means!!!

Currently our donation pot amounts to 390 euros. We will make the progress of donations clear on our website by means of a “thermometer”.

I ask all those who want to contribute in order to support the project financially for a donation into the account AT18 3800 0000 0026 5124, which is in my name, reference “Plakat”.

In solidarity!

Full spead ahead!

Karin Rausch = Betty Baloo

Did you know that

• there is already now a reserve of electricity production available to the amount of 90 to 130 per cent of the actual use according to the official supervisory authority ‘E-Control’? This is far more than the internationally usual reserve of 15 to 20 per cent.

• ... that every further Mur power station increases electricity costs by its construction alone because we all have to pay interest and compound interest for the building credits.

• … that nature which has remained so far is permanently damaged in its grown ecology and irretrievably destroyed?

• … that accruing interest from this construction will also be paid by us in the form of an increase of taxes and fees (e.g. parking fees and fines, fares for public transport, fees for refuse collection, etc.)?

• … that the current power consumption is artifically boosted in order to justify the power station?

• … that investor projects which intend to privatize or take down existing subsidized housing as well as to use green spaces for building are being prepared, in order to build new “dwelling landscapes”. These will be prohibitively expensive!

• … that the town of Graz has particularly for this purpose raised the density used for building in the land use plans?

• … that the high-praised greenbelt recreational area is expensively rented out to wealthy leaseholders and which will then not be accessible for free? (See also ‘Schwarzl See’!)

• … that electric power is far from ‘100% green’ because of the equipment and building materials used (vast amount of concrete and steel)?

• … that the central collecting channel which costs 84 million euros approximately is “necessary” just because the town council did not build rainwater channels even in the case of new developments (170 kilometres), although these are stipulated by law (!) and surpluses have been used in a way in which it was not intended to be used?

• … that it is not you who will profit from the Mur power station but the banks, building and electricity combines, politically filled supervisory boards and dwelling speculators?

Please question in time what television and the newspapers are telling you! In the last couple of days many things have not been told at all in order not to set you thinking and not to make you furious! You are sold visions which make you part with your hard-earned money without the slightest intention to give you more comfort or security!

Whoever protects the Mur, protects himself!

We are not to let anyone make our decisions for us! Let’s fight together against the series of robberies of the combines!

Please take your time in your own interest and have a look at further information about the statements made:

http://www.rettetdiemur.at * http://stromwechsel.jetzt * http://www.murcamp.at

http://diepresse.com/home/3816155 – E-Control: Österreich braucht nicht mehr Kraftwerke http://stmv1.orf.at/stories/332225 – Bürgermeister Nagl 2008 gegen die Murkraftwerke! http://www.hohensinn-architektur.at/wohnen_timberintown.php – Spekulationsprojekt http://www.rechnungshof.gv.at/aktuelles/ansicht/detail/berichtsvorlagen… (at the very bottom)

P.S.: This is a private leaflet financed by own means. It uses the right of freedom of information according to article 10 European Human Rights Convention!