Day 23
NEWS ALERT:
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) announced a new 15-day public comment period on the re-submitted Water Quality Certificate application for the proposed, federally regulated Constitution Pipeline.
Commenting is open again until May 14th, 2015.
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Today’s Topic: Allowing the “Constitution” Pipeline to be built would contradict the mission statement of the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC).
Suggested Talking Points:
- The Constitution Pipeline requires permits from the NYSDEC in order to be built.
- The DEC’s mission statement reads as follows: To conserve, improve and protect New York’s natural resources and environment and to prevent, abate and control water, land and air pollution, in order to enhance the health, safety and welfare of the people of the state and their overall economic and social well-being.
- Further, the DEC states that its goal is “to achieve this mission through the simultaneous pursuit of environmental quality, public health, economic prosperity and social well-being, including environmental justice and the empowerment of individuals to participate in environmental decisions that affect their lives.”
- The Constitution Pipeline would harm New York’s natural resources and environment by clear-cutting 1,000 acres of forestland, trenching across more than 270 water bodies, and digging and blasting through 100 miles of hilly, flood-prone, rural land and many farms.
- The Constitution Pipeline would cause long-term permanent degradation of DEC-protected streams by increasing runoff and sedimentation—both during and after construction—due to digging, blasting and the permanent deforestation of the pipeline’s entire route
- The Constitution Pipeline and the multiple compressor stations along its length would increase air pollution via toxic emissions. All gas pipelines leak methane (a greenhouse gas) sooner or later.
- The Constitution Pipeline would be a detriment and danger to the health, safety, property, air and water of all New York citizens along its path, as well as downstream.
- I’m calling on the DEC to uphold its mission statement. Deny the permits for this fracked-gas pipeline.
Call today, call tomorrow!
Call, call, CALL. Governor Cuomo: 518-474-8390. Press #3 to speak with a representative.
If you are extremely shy or have already called and want to double the impact of your message…cut and paste the topic and bullet points above and email the Governor: gov.cuomo@chamber.state.ny.us
Last request: SHARE this email with everyone you know. Together, we will stop this pipeline AND the spread of fracked-gas infrastructure in New York State.
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- Call Governor Cuomo right now at 518-474-8390. Press #3 to speak with a representative. If you leave a voice message, be sure to spell your name and include your zip code.
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- Double your impact by sending today’s topic and bullet points to the governor
gov.cuomo@chamber.state.ny.us
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- AND to these decision-makers:
- Attorney General Eric Schneiderman
212-416-8000;
eric.schneiderman@ag.ny.gov
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- DEC Commissioner Joseph Martens:
518-402-8545;
joe.martens@dec.ny.gov
Dr. Howard Zucker, Acting Commissioner of Health:
518-474-2011
dohweb@health.ny.gov
Each weekday, from now until May 11th, Stop the Pipeline will focus on a different reason why the Constitution Pipeline would be harmful to New York’s land, water, air and people.
YOUR phone calls are what helped us win a ban on fracking in New York. YOUR phone calls will help us stop the Constitution Pipeline, too.
A Quick Snapshot
This 30-inch-diameter, 124-mile-long high-pressure pipeline would carry fracked gas from Pennsylvania, through the forests, farms, fields and front yards of New York residents, and on to Canada for export.
The New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) can stop this Un-Constitutional Pipeline by DENYING the necessary permits.
How can you help?
Use the talking points in this email to tell Governor Cuomo and others why this project should be stopped.
Feel free to elaborate on how the pipeline would adversely affect you, your home, business, family, friends and neighbors.
Call Governor Cuomo right now at 518-474-8390. Press #3 to speak with a representative.
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