Pipelines, which inevitably leak and rupture causing dangerous explosions and fires, would snake through our waterways, backyards and farms. To support the export of LNG on the East Coast, new pipelines will be needed throughout the Marcellus shale states to get gas from new drilling wells to the export terminal. A Web of Destructive Fossil Fuel Infrastructure Construction of the gas liquefaction facility would require the clearing of forests and barging in of heavy construction materials along the Patuxent River, further threatening the network of rivers, wetlands and forests that attract tourists and support rare species of plants, animals and migratory birds. They would also dump billions of gallons of dirty ballast wastewater into the Bay each year. Harmful emissions from those tankers would worsen local air quality. Exporting gas from Cove Point would increase traffic of massive, 1,000-foot long tankers carrying volatile, potentially explosive liquid fuel. The Chesapeake Bay supports more than a trillion dollars in economic activity through seafood and tourism. Risking the Chesapeake Bay Economy and Ecology In other states, the expansion of fracking has caused drinking water contamination, air pollution, illnesses and even earthquakes. If the Cove Point export facility is approved, it will provide a strong economic incentive for companies to expand fracking across our region, including in Maryland, where no drilling yet occurs. LNG exports will increase pollution and health risks from gas drilling, processing and transport at home, turning our communities into industrial sacrifice zones for energy being shipped elsewhere.
In all, given the energy-intensive process of extracting, transporting and processing gas for export, Cove Point would trigger more greenhouse gas emissions than any other single source of climate pollution in Maryland. Exporting LNG is the industry’s opportunity to drive up gas prices at home and drive up its own profits-at our communities’ expense.įact: The new liquefaction facility that Dominion would have to build on-site to process gas for export would emit more heat-trapping carbon dioxide than all but three of the state’s existing coal plants. The rapid expansion of fracking has led to a glut of gas in the U.S. The project would cost upwards of $3.8 billion dollars, require the construction of an energy-intensive plant on-site to liquefy and cool the gas, draw a surge of tanker traffic into the Bay-and enable the export of over one billion cubic feet of carbon-emitting fracked natural gas per day. CCAN joined Patuxent Riverkeeper, Potomac Riverkeeper, and Stewards of the Lower Susquehanna to weigh in with an amicus brief in support of the Sierra Club.Įxporting Fracked Gas to the World through Marylandĭominion Energy wants Cove Point, originally built during the 1970s to import gas, to become the first liquefied natural gas export facility approved on the East Coast.
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The Sierra Club initiated the suit, which challenges the DOE’s May 2015 decision to allow Dominion to export up to 1 billion cubic feet of gas per day from the Cove Point facility in Maryland to countries that don’t have free trade agreements with the U.S. Department of Energy’s approval of Dominion Resources Inc.’s plan to export liquefied natural gas from Cove Point, arguing that the agency failed to properly study the project’s climate impacts. On October 31, 2016, CCAN and others filed a legal brief with the D.C. Join our people-powered movement to stop a fracked gas disaster at Cove Point, and to keep our region on the path to a clean-energy fueled future. While the gas industry would profit, we would pay the price of scarred landscapes, polluted air and waterways, livelihoods at risk, and worsened climate change. It would drive demand for a surge of new hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” for gas in our region and require an expanding network of new fossil fuel infrastructure. The development of Cove Point, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility located right on the Chesapeake Bay in Southern Maryland, is a linchpin in this plan.ĭominion’s Cove Point facility is the first LNG export terminal slated for the East Coast.
The natural gas industry is proposing a dangerous and costly detour from our region’s clean energy future: They want to build a web of fracking wells, pipelines, and processing facilities across our region in order to liquefy fracked natural gas and export it to overseas markets in Asia.
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