Dear John,
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Help stop Duke Energy once more. Push the Army Corp of Engineers to pull the work order for the RLNG Pipeline.
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The Atlantic Coast Pipeline has been stopped. Duke Energy and Dominion Energy abandoned the $8 billion dollar project weeks ago -- but Duke Energy is continuing to push more fossil fuel infrastructure forward.
Piedmont Natural Gas Co, a subsidiary of Duke Energy, has obtained a work order from the Army Corp of Engineers to construct the Robeson LNG (RLNG) Pipeline. If not stopped, the one billion cubic foot liquified natural gas storage facility will be built in Wakulla, Robeson County North Carolina -- an area that is occupied by 87.9% Indigenous (predominantly Lumbee) peoples as well as African Americans.
Wakulla is a Timucuan word with linkage to Quechua. It is variously translated with meanings connected to water such as “River of the Crying Bird” or “Mysterious Waters”. Through historic trade routes it became a part of the Robeson County geography. It is said that the definition “River of the Crying Bird” could describe the impact that the RLNG would have on the Wakulla waters today. These “Mysterious Waters” must be preserved.
John, you used your voice to stand up to Duke Energy before. We need you to rally with us once more as we topple another one of their fossil fuel projects!
Tell the Army Corp of Engineers: Stop the work order for the RLNG Pipeline project.
During a climate emergency, this facility makes no sense financially or ecologically. Add in the blatant environmental racism and the vocal opposition by the Lumbee Tribal Council, it is abundantly clear the project should not even be considered.
Communities of color are the hardest hit by not only disproportionate proximity to pollution, but also adverse health effects from these stressors. The Robeson LNG Pipeline will only add to this disparity for Black and Indigenous peoples in Robeson County, North Carolina.
The local communities are already concerned with the impacts on their drinking water from industrial pollution, animal agriculture, and hurricane flooding. The unnecessary RLNG Project will just add additional pollution to the waterways, destroying both swamps and seasonal wetlands -- creating concern for the health and wellbeing of not only this generation, but future generations.
Healthy water, air, and land should not be a right preserved only for the privileged. All people and wildlife deserve a clean and healthy environment.
Demand the permits for the RLNG Pipeline are pulled. Protect the health of North Carolina residents.
The climate emergency is at its peak. Year after year we continue to see record setting wildfires. Hurricanes and tropical storms destroy communities. Last decade was the hottest on record. The alarm bells are screaming that something must be done to combat this climate crisis -- and we need your help.
Companies like Duke Energy will continue to push forward with their destruction of our environment just for the sake of profit. Fossil fuel projects, like the Robeson LNG Pipeline, are keeping the fossil fuel industry alive -- even though scientists implore us to keep all fossil fuels in the ground.
A transition to renewable energy is needed to not only protect the communities living in close proximity to these Big Polluters, but for the entire world. Our planet needs to rapidly transition away from fossil fuels, but this will only happen if activists like you, John, help shut down these large fossil fuel infrastructures.
Help keep fossil fuels in the ground: Tell the Army Corp of Engineers to stop pushing us further to climate catastrophe.
Standing with you,
Donna Chavis,
Senior fossil fuels campaigner,
Friends of the Earth
