IT PASSED! IT PASSED UNANIMOUSLY!!! Calvert County peeps, can you even imagine having a serious, intelligent conversation with any of our Calvert County Commissioners about climate change, fracking, or the negative environmental impacts of an LNG export facility in a residential neighborhood on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay? I am having some SERIOUS county government envy right now. By the activists powers vested in me by the universe, I hereby declare that it is Montgomery County day in Cove Point Maryland! THANK YOU MONTGOMERY COUNTY! Statement from Mike Tidwell, Director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN) “On behalf of environmental, health, faith, and community leaders across Montgomery County and the state of Maryland, CCAN applauds the unanimous vote of the Montgomery County Council today concerning the controversial Cove Point gas export plan. If Virginia-based Dominion Resources is permitted to export fracked natural gas from the proposed Cove Point site in Calvert County, all Marylanders will be affected, including Montgomery County citizens. The Council did the right thing today by unanimously calling on federal regulators to conduct an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for Cove Point. Given that a gas basin has been found under Montgomery County, and given the rapid spread of the controversial natural gas drilling method known as fracking, the council took a bold and necessary stance to protect the environment. In its resolution, the council calls on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to conduct a full and customary EIS before any construction can begin on Dominion’s proposed $3.8 billion plant at Cove Point to liquefy gas from fracking wells and export the gas to Asia. The resolution tells FERC that Montgomery County residents would be affected by this potentially disastrous energy mega-project, and demands full environmental accounting of potential impacts statewide, including in Montgomery County. CCAN thanks Council Vice President George Leventhal for sponsoring this resolution and taking leadership on this critical issue.” Mike Tidwell Director Chesapeake Climate Action Network 240-460-5838
Posted on: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 21:29:51 +0000
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