Dear John,
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline is an existential threat to ecosystems and human
communities throughout the Appalachian Mountains. Cutting across three states,
this proposed $8 billion pipeline would devastate waterways, wreck the iconic
Appalachian Trail, and transport enough fracked gas to generate over 67 million
metric tons of climate pollution per year. We need your help to stop this pipeline.
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For years, Friends of the Earth has worked alongside communities in the path of
the ACP to stop this destructive fracked gas project from being built. This
struggle has taken us as far as the Supreme Court and made us a thorn in the
side of powerful corporate polluters. And our resistance is making a real
difference.
The companies behind the ACP have been fighting us for so long that a key permit
they need to build the pipeline from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is
about to expire. Yesterday, we submitted more than 26,000 public comments in opposition to the
ACP’s request to have its FERC permit extended. Fossil fuel companies may have deep pockets, but we’ve got something they
don’t: people power.
Help us keep up the struggle against the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and defeat Big
Oil and Gas for good. Donate now!
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[[link removed]]Of course, it’s not all good news. On May 18th, the North Carolina Department of
Environmental Quality shamefully upheld the Atlantic Coast Pipeline’s state
water permit. This is an obvious sham -- there’s no such thing as a water-safe
fracked gas pipeline. It’s also a sign of how thoroughly Big Oil and Gas have
corrupted our politics, and how urgently and fiercely we have to work together
to take back control from corporate polluters.
An ACP subcommittee of the DEQ Secretary’s Environmental Justice & Equity
Advisory Board has met since that day in May to consider recommendations they
will make to the Secretary. That letter from the Board was submitted on June 30.
Now, the Secretary -- who has the authority and responsibility to make it
public, for all to see -- must do so. We stand with the Advisory Board in making
that demand.
It’s hard to overestimate everything that’s at stake right now. The ACP would
wreak havoc on fragile habitats that countless species like beavers, river
otters and the blue heron depend on to survive. Furthemore, the ACP would
disproportionately harm poor, African-American and Indigenous communities all
along the route. The historic African-American community of Union Hill, Virginia
would become home to one of the largest fracked gas compressor stations ever
built if this project goes through. As many as ten fracked gas projects could be
built in Indigenous Lumbee and Tuscarora communities in relation to the
pipeline.
The impacts of the ACP won’t only be local -- the emissions created each year by
the pipeline will be equivalent to the annual pollution of 20 coal-fired power
plants, contributing to increased floods, fires and droughts around the world.
Stopping this project is our chance to turn the tide against the fossil fuel
industry and embolden communities fighting pipelines and other Big Oil and Gas
projects all over the country.
FERC should absolutely take these catastrophic consequences into account when
considering whether or not to renew the ACP’s permit. But under the Trump
administration, that’s no guarantee. If FERC decides to renew the ACP’s permit
in defiance of the people, science, and basic ethics, we’ll be in for the fight
of our lives, and we’ll need all your help to make sure we win.
Donate to Friends of the Earth today and help stop the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
-- and every other pipeline just like it.
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[[link removed]]We don’t know yet what the outcome of FERC’s decision will be, but we have to be
ready. It’s not an exaggeration to say our future hangs in the balance. With 50
million Americans unemployed, the fight to stop the Atlantic Coast Pipeline has
become a fight to determine our economic future in addition to the future of our
planet.
We deserve an economic recovery that puts millions of people to work building a
fair and just transition to 100% renewable energy and a truly sustainable
society. Projects like the ACP stand directly in the way of that vision, and threaten to
keep us under the thumb of the same extractive, polluting industries that have
already destroyed so much of our planet and so many of our communities.
It’s time to break the cycle, and start implementing the sweeping,
transformative changes we need to save our future, our earth, and all the living
things we share it with. The first step is to stop the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
from being built and locking us into decades of fracking and burning fossil
fuels. And we can’t do it without you.
With your support, we can secure a future for people and the planet. Donate to Friends of the Earth today and stop the Atlantic Coast Pipeline!
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[[link removed]]Thank you for fighting for our future,
Donna Chavis,
Senior fossil fuels campaigner,
Friends of the Earth
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