This just in, Sunday’s Washington demonstrations (See: InClimate 561) against port terminal expansion to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) took a serious turn Monday as 24 protestors were arrested during a sit-in at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The protest centers around the Commission’s conditional approval for Dominion Energy to build a terminal at Cove Point, Lusby Maryland about 50 miles from D.C. and their future plans for 14 more terminals. The American gas will leave it’s environmentally disastrous hydraulic fracturing scars on the USA before being shipped and then burned overseas - where it will add to world-wide climate disruption. It’s the first ever sit-in at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and attests to peoples’ anger and passion against regulatory decisions that put corporate profit over the environment, climate and health of the planet.
The comment period ended in June with 150,000 comments against the Cove Point facility. It's a port that could ship 0.77 billion (that’s billion with a b) cubic feet of fracked American natural gas daily for combustion in Japan and India. People are serious. People are willing to be jailed. Save the dates - the Peoples Climate March in NYC, September 20-21.
http://ecowatch.com/2014/07/14/arrest-anti-fracking-ferc/?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=c598540c32-Top_News_7_14_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-c598540c32-85936941
Don’t forget the People’s Climate March, September 20-21, 2014, NYC
http://peoplesclimate.org/march/