Power petition has a lot more signatures than other big-issue movements Poll Too strict An online petition calling council members to support public ownership of the city’s power plant is growing steam, but it’s unclear how the effort will be viewed, according to a local political scientist. More than 3,600 people had signed the petition at website Change.org as of Tuesday afternoon, about six days after it was launched by local advocate Alison Van Dyke. That’s more interest than was registered on similar high-profile petitions to twin Highway 3 in the region or pause selection of a supervised consumption site.