Stop the Fracked-Gas Atlantic Coast Pipeline!
- recipient: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
The 550-mile fracked Atlantic Coast Pipeline would pass by the James River, two Virginia state parks, numerous schools the Blue Ridge Parkway, and the gorgeous George Washington National Forest!
Furthermore, private-property owners are at risk of losing their land through eminent domain. Our rights and our environment should matter more than fossil-fuel profits!
Residents are fighting to protect this strikingly beautiful landscape, alongside citizen groups like the Southern Environmental Law Center, the Sierra Club, Friends of Nelson, and the Augusta County Alliance.
There's still time to stand for safety and the environment and stop this fracked-gas pipeline. Please sign this petition to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and let them know that you oppose this destructive pipeline - before we lose these wild places forever.
I am opposed to the proposed 550-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline that would carry fracked gas. I ask you to re-evaluate this pipeline and do everything you can to stop it.
[YOUR PERSONAL COMMENT HERE]
My concerns regarding the pipeline include:
Environmental Impacts: Pipelines require a clear-cut the size of interstate highways, and would run through communities, farms, woodlands, streams and wetlands. The environmental destruction is huge, including harm to watersheds and water quality; damage to endangered and threatened species; disturbance of many unsuitable areas such as erosion-prone steep slopes, seeps, and springs; and extreme disruption of many pristine and native trout streams, wetlands and riparian areas, though bedrock dynamiting and excavation.
Those environmental impacts include the long-term detrimental impacts on plant and animal life, especially on the approximately 200 species already known to be endangered, threatened, rare, or declining in the George Washington National Forest with passage through Inventoried Roadless Areas and Special Biological Areas in the National Forest, including passage through "Biodiversity Hot Spots" and "Outstanding Ecological Cores".
The pipeline would expand demand for natural gas which would mean more use of destructive fracking practices in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and potentially in Virginia and North Carolina. Additionally, reliance on fracking and natural gas means more released methane, a potent greenhouse gas that would worsen climate change. We need to be moving away from reliance on fossil fuels, not increasing our dependence on them.
Recreation Impacts: The pipelines would also impact the nationally known and highly popular recreational features including the George Washington National Forest, the Blue Ridge Parkway, the Great Eastern Trail, and the iconic Appalachian Trail.
Public Safety: LNG pipelines often leak and can explode. Running pipelines through karst topography and mountainous terrain puts our communities at severe risk. Building pipelines through mountainous terrain carries additional risk of landslides and erosion.
Property Rights: These projects are not in the public interest, and it is wrong to allow private businesses to use the extraordinary power of eminent domain to condemn family farms and homes.
Once again, I urge you to stop the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
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