To: Maryland Public Service Commission, David Collins, Executive Secretary
MD Public Service Commission: Stop Fracked Gas Exports at Cove Point
I urge you to deny Dominion Cove Point a certificate of public convenience and necessity to construct a 130 megawatt power plant and liquefied natural gas export terminal in Lusby, Maryland. This project is NOT in our public interest. While Dominion and the gas industry profit, Marylanders will face toxic air pollution, worsening climate change impacts, and higher prices.
Why is this important?
A Virginia-based corporation called Dominion Resources is seeking sign-off from Maryland regulators to build a massive fracked gas export facility on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay in southern Maryland. Dominion wants to take nearly a billion cubic feet of fracked gas each day from drilling wells across Appalachia, pipe it across Maryland, liquefy it to 260 degrees below zero and then ship it to Asia -- at high costs to our climate and communities.
If the Cove Point export terminal gets built, the increased pressure to frack throughout our region will be enormous, as will the pulse of new planet-heating pollution that wrecks our climate. In fact, the process of fracking, liquefying and exporting gas is so polluting, that Dominion’s plan could trigger as much or more greenhouse gas emissions than all seven of Maryland’s coal-fired power plants COMBINED.
On top of it all, the U.S. Department of Energy itself concluded that exporting fracked gas would raise prices for Americans, harming every sector of the economy BUT the super-rich gas industry. They win big at our expense.
People across Maryland and across the Mid-Atlantic region are rising up to stop Cove Point. You can join them today by submitting a comment to the Maryland Public Service Commission. Between now and April 2nd, the PSC is taking public input on whether a key permit Dominion needs to build its fracked gas export facility is in our public interest. Sign on to urge the Public Service Commission to put our health and climate above gas industry profits and deny Dominion’s Cove Point permit.
If the Cove Point export terminal gets built, the increased pressure to frack throughout our region will be enormous, as will the pulse of new planet-heating pollution that wrecks our climate. In fact, the process of fracking, liquefying and exporting gas is so polluting, that Dominion’s plan could trigger as much or more greenhouse gas emissions than all seven of Maryland’s coal-fired power plants COMBINED.
On top of it all, the U.S. Department of Energy itself concluded that exporting fracked gas would raise prices for Americans, harming every sector of the economy BUT the super-rich gas industry. They win big at our expense.
People across Maryland and across the Mid-Atlantic region are rising up to stop Cove Point. You can join them today by submitting a comment to the Maryland Public Service Commission. Between now and April 2nd, the PSC is taking public input on whether a key permit Dominion needs to build its fracked gas export facility is in our public interest. Sign on to urge the Public Service Commission to put our health and climate above gas industry profits and deny Dominion’s Cove Point permit.