To: Governor Larry Hogan
No Pipeline Under the Potomac!
Please deny the 401 Water Quality Certificate for the Eastern Panhandle Expansion pipeline that would transport fracked gas under the Potomac River.
This pipeline poses an unacceptable risk to the more than 6 million people who live downstream and rely on the Potomac as their primary source of drinking water.
Construction of the pipeline would damage local and regional water quality, undermining the strong action Maryland has just taken to protect drinking water and health by banning fracking.
Please stand up for Marylanders again and reject this project.
This pipeline poses an unacceptable risk to the more than 6 million people who live downstream and rely on the Potomac as their primary source of drinking water.
Construction of the pipeline would damage local and regional water quality, undermining the strong action Maryland has just taken to protect drinking water and health by banning fracking.
Please stand up for Marylanders again and reject this project.
Why is this important?
The company behind Keystone XL wants to build a fracked-gas pipeline through Western Maryland.
If built, the Eastern Panhandle Expansion project would transport fracked gas from Pennsylvania to West Virginia, crossing through Maryland and under the Potomac River and the C&O Canal along the way.
More than 6 million people get their drinking water from the Potomac River, and this pipeline project would jeopardize the quality of the water they depend on.
Governor Hogan recently signed the statewide ban on fracking into law, and now he has the chance to protect the drinking water for millions of Marylanders again by denying the Clean Water Act certification that is required for this pipeline to move forward.
Urge him to deny the Eastern Panhandle Expansion project's 401 Water Quality Certificate.
If built, the Eastern Panhandle Expansion project would transport fracked gas from Pennsylvania to West Virginia, crossing through Maryland and under the Potomac River and the C&O Canal along the way.
More than 6 million people get their drinking water from the Potomac River, and this pipeline project would jeopardize the quality of the water they depend on.
Governor Hogan recently signed the statewide ban on fracking into law, and now he has the chance to protect the drinking water for millions of Marylanders again by denying the Clean Water Act certification that is required for this pipeline to move forward.
Urge him to deny the Eastern Panhandle Expansion project's 401 Water Quality Certificate.