Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Sign my petition

Sign the petition urging the governors of New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Delaware to stop the fracked gas export terminal in the Delaware River.

Sign the petition urging the governors of New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Delaware to stop the fracked gas export terminal in the Delaware River at their meeting this Thursday.

Dear fellow MoveOn member,

This is Mark Ruffalo—actor, environmental activist, and MoveOn member. After the past three and a half years of the Trump administration, very little surprises me. It horrifies me, but doesn't surprise me. When I heard Donald Trump approved a dangerous and untested plan to transport fracked gas from northeast Pennsylvania to New Jersey, I was not surprised.1

What did surprise me was the fact that four Democratic governors—governors of New Jersey, New York, Delaware, and Pennsylvania, who promised to follow the climate change science and be climate leaders—have been going along with Trump's fracking plan.

This dangerous plan will allow a company called New Fortress Energy to take fracked gas from the Marcellus Shale in northeast Pennsylvania to export overseas.2 New Fortress Energy will liquify the gas and transport it nearly 200 miles by trucks and by rail to export from a facility in southern New Jersey, only a short distance south of Philadelphia, PA.3 New Fortress Energy is attempting to get fast-track approval to transport the gas by trucks and rail tank cars to circumvent lengthy federal regulatory reviews that would require more public input.

Will you sign my petition calling on NJ, NY, PA, and DE governors to put a stop to the fracking project on the Delaware River?

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, Delaware Governor John Carney, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers must stop the fracked gas export terminal in the Delaware River.

Health experts, scientists, and first responders are warning about the many ways this fracking project threatens public health and safety.

The governors must reject the Trump administration's very dangerous fracking plan at their meeting this Thursday.

The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) was established in 1961 by the Kennedy administration and the governments of Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York to protect this vital river basin.4 Yet right now the DRBC is failing to live up to its mandate—it approved the fracking project without looking at the facts or providing the public with an adequate comment period to express concerns and expert testimony.5

This fracking plan is atrocious for many reasons. It will set a dangerous national precedent for the transportation of extremely volatile fracked gas by trucks and trains to export the gas overseas. It reinforces the production of gas at a time when many states are working to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

It threatens the Delaware River Basin, which is a source of water for over 15 million people (about 4% of the entire U.S. population).6 It will damage the river's ecosystem that includes the endangered Atlantic sturgeon and freshwater mussels.7

The liquified gas is highly flammable. It burns so hot that people and animals can get second-degree burns up to a mile away. Because it burns so hot, it's inextinguishable.8 And it's explosive. It can turn into rapidly expanding clouds of vapor that can flash-freeze human flesh and asphyxiate by displacing oxygen.9 Transporting liquified gas is a terrible danger: Just one rail tank car could destroy an entire city.10

I love the Delaware River and my neighbors who live along it. Will you help us by signing my petition calling on the governors to immediately halt this horrible and harmful fracking project?

Click here to add your name to my petition, and then pass it along to your friends.

Thanks!

–Mark Ruffalo

Sources:

1. "Executive Order on Promoting Energy Infrastructure and Economic Growth," The White House, April 10, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/143599?t=11&akid=273251%2E10220574%2EBLn9nA

2. "Water Regulator Defends OK of Plan to Build LNG Export Terminal in South Jersey," NJ Spotlight, May 13, 2020
https://act.moveon.org/go/143597?t=13&akid=273251%2E10220574%2EBLn9nA

3. "What You Should Know About Liquefied Natural Gas and Rail Cars," Earthjustice, August 18, 2020
https://act.moveon.org/go/143600?t=15&akid=273251%2E10220574%2EBLn9nA

4. "Water Regulator Defends OK of Plan to Build LNG Export Terminal in South Jersey," NJ Spotlight, May 13, 2020
https://act.moveon.org/go/143597?t=17&akid=273251%2E10220574%2EBLn9nA

5. "Contentious plan to remake N.J. dynamite plant into shale-gas export terminal is approved," The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 12, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/143598?t=19&akid=273251%2E10220574%2EBLn9nA

6. "New DRBC Panel to Focus on Sea-Level Rise as Salt Front Threatens Drinking Water," NJ Spotlight, August 13, 2020
https://act.moveon.org/go/143859?t=21&akid=273251%2E10220574%2EBLn9nA

7. "Riverkeepers' Delaware River paddle focuses on endangered sturgeon," Courier Times, May 28, 2019
https://act.moveon.org/go/143603?t=23&akid=273251%2E10220574%2EBLn9nA

8. "Letter to DRBC Regarding Gibbstown, NJ Export Facility," Concerned Health Professionals of NY, September 3, 2020
http://act.moveon.org/go/143601?t=25&akid=273251%2E10220574%2EBLn9nA

9. Ibid.

10. "What You Should Know About Liquefied Natural Gas and Rail Cars," Earthjustice, August 18, 2020
https://act.moveon.org/go/143600?t=27&akid=273251%2E10220574%2EBLn9nA

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