Meet the GulfLink export terminal, the latest fossil fuel export terminal killing the planet and making a mockery of US goals on climate action.

GulfLink would pump an additional 1 million barrels of crude oil per day to international buyers, creating an incredible 3.8 billion metric tons of climate-changing pollution. It's also located (of course) in an Texas community that's already overburdened with pollution and fossil fuel infrastructure.

The Biden Administration is accepting public comment on the GulfLink project for the next few weeks. Get your comment in now.

All year long, we've been fighting fossil fuel exports. We won an early victory with the Biden Administration's pause on LNG exports. And in the last few weeks we've had a series of victories against fossil fuel projects. You can read more about it all in our blog, but the short version is that courts and insurers are agreeing with what we've said all along: climate and Environmental Justice impacts from these export projects are extreme, and regulators aren't considering them. If they did, they wouldn't approve these permits!

But none of that will stop GulfLink. If approved, the facility will require a massive network of onshore fossil fuel infrastructure including above-ground storage tanks that hold 8.5 million barrels of oil — Which the company proposes to build in a floodplain that was just inundated during Hurricane Beryl. And then all that oil will will be pumped out 26.6 miles offshore through a new 42-inch pipeline to a floating platform in the Gulf of Mexico. There, the floating platform will load enormous supertankers called VLCCs.

And all of this in a part of the US that is already experiencing more and more-severe climate fueled storms, hurricanes, and tidal surges.

GulfLink isn't even necessary! The proposed location is just seven miles from Sea Port Oil Terminal, another massive oil export project that the Biden Administration quietly approved in the last year over the objections of local residents, elected officials and tens of thousands of climate activists.

Sign here if you agree: We cannot let the Gulf Coast be sacrificed yet again fossil fuel industry profits.

Thanks,

Drew and the 198 methods to defund fossil fuels crew

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