Press Release from the Action Network!
This is a last call for submitting comments to DOE to STOP LNG Exports! Let’s build the record on truth and facts!
When the Trump Administration took office, his Executive Order on Energy directed the Department of Energy (DOE) to restart reviews of LNG export projects, disregarding the comprehensive report that was released for public comments by DOE in December. Trump ordered that “economic and employment impacts to the United States” and “the impact to the security of allies and partners” be considered by the agency, omitting the critical environmental and climate impacts and the public health implications for communities that was key to the study’s original purpose.
Trump did not close the public comment portal and both the DOE docket is still open to receive comments. The Trump Administration extended the public comment period through March 20. This is likely to try to load up the record with counters to the over 109,000 comments submitted before the inauguration, overwhelmingly opposed to LNG Exports. Let’s not cede this ground! Please submit a comment and ask your friends, neighbors, and elected officials to do the same, based on all of the critical issues that the LNG Report examined.
LET’s FLOOD THEM WITH MORE SIGNATURES AND COMMENTS:
Stop LNG exports – submit a comment now to DOE!
Sign the petition today at bit.ly/stopexporting!
Why is this important for all of us?
• LNG exports will layer more pollution on communities, emphasized by Secretary Jennifer Granholm in a statement accompanying the report’s release, in which she pointed out that it’s even worse for environmental justice communities that would be being saddled with more LNG pollution that is harming public health and shortening lives. We know that LNG exports are degrading the environment at every step of the gas production cycle. This is true at LNG facilities and also where fossil gas is being fracked and transported such as in Pennsylvania, the second largest gas producer in the nation where the wounds of the fracking industry run deep.
• LNG exports will make the climate crisis worse by pumping out greenhouse gases at the moment we must urgently reduce these emissions to avoid climate catastrophe. We need to develop truly clean renewables but these will be displaced by LNG increases.
• The report finds that LNG exports drive up the price of gas for domestic users, including manufacturing and electric utility costs, and can lead to economic instability. It also concludes that further permitting would result in excess supply. The worldwide glut of LNG will engender economic instability as demand wanes and investments sour.
More LNG exports are clearly not in the public interest and all pending and new LNG export applications must be rejected. Please take a few minutes to submit your personal comment to demand a fair, accurate, and comprehensive analysis of the public interest determination of each LNG export project. By our mounting a strong record defending the interests of the public over special corporate self-interests, we will have powerful information we can use to fight the LNG exports that the incoming administration will be pushing. We have a way to put our concerns and opinions on the government record – let’s take advantage of that and swamp the DOE with comments! For those who want more detail on the LNG export issue and the report, see Delaware Riverkeeper Network’s technical comment here.