BACKGROUND: True: Natural gas is the cleanest burning fossil fuel. However, if you add the climate damage done by the leakage of methane, especially at the gas wellheads, natural gas is even worse than coal.
A 12/29/2023 NYT graph shows the global temperature is not only rising, but at an ever-faster rate. Nearly a quarter of humanity is now living in drought conditions, making even subsistence farming untenable. Rather than waiting for slow starvation, many people turn to migration, creating political instability in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Europe, the US, and many other places.
Despite this, the Dept. of Energy (DOE) will soon decide if it would be "in the public interest" to allow the construction of CP2, a $10 billion Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) export terminal in Louisiana's coastal marshes. There are 16 other US locations also being considered as LNG export terminals. The President just announced that he has delayed the decision re the LNG terminals. We need to tell the President & Secretary of the DOE that exporting LNG is ’NOT in the public interest.'
ACTION: Tell Pres. Biden and the Secretary of DOE that CP2, the proposed LNG terminal for Louisiana, and all other proposed LNG terminals, are not in the public interest. Exporting more LNG would lower the price of natural gas abroad and cause higher fuel use and higher temperatures worldwide. This will lead to more destructive climate-related disasters, higher global food prices, and higher migration causing political instability and increased conflict.
CONTACT: President Biden
- Web: https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ (leave a message)
- Tel: 1-202-456-1111 (leave a message)
- Mail: The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington DC 20500
CONTACT: Jenifer Granholm, US Secretary of Energy - Email: [email protected]
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