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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Green <green-bounces@fuusm.org> on behalf of Dawn Hewitt via Green <green@fuusm.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 25, 2023 8:47 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> green Sanctuary List for Environment Issues <green@fuusm.org><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Dawn Hewitt <hewitt@earth-maker.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Green] Vote required: Should we sign petition ?</font>
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<div class="" style="word-wrap:break-word; line-break:after-white-space">Please reply by Sunday, October 29, at 7 p.m, with your vote on whether we should sign this petition seeking to stop the Army Corps of Engineers from permitting CO2 pipelines, especially
those intended for carbon capture and storage.
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<span class="" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b class="">From: </b></span><span class="" style="">Lauren Parker <<a href="mailto:lparker@biologicaldiversity.org" class="">lparker@biologicaldiversity.org</a>><br class="">
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<span class="" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span class="" style=""><b class="">Join us? Re: Sign on – petition to stop permitting CCS false solution infrastructure</b><br class="">
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<span class="" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b class="">Date: </b></span><span class="" style="">October 25, 2023 at 3:13:43 PM EDT<br class="">
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<span class="" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b class="">To: </b></span><span class="" style="">"<a href="mailto:hewitt@earth-maker.com" class="">hewitt@earth-maker.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:hewitt@earth-maker.com" class="">hewitt@earth-maker.com</a>><br class="">
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Hi Dawn!</p>
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I just wanted to follow up and make sure Green Sanctuary Committee, First Unitarian Universalist Society of Marietta, Ohio has an opportunity to join us on the below – we're petition Army Corps to stop issuing permits for CO<sub class=""><span class="" style="font-size:8.5pt; line-height:12.126666069030762px">2</span></sub><span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>pipelines,
especially those for carbon capture and storage projects.</p>
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<b class=""><span class="" style="background-color:yellow">You can review the petition and sign-on here:<span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><a href="https://forms.gle/LXp23ewyQcJ5zTp49" class="" style="color:rgb(5,99,193); text-decoration:underline"><b class=""><span class="" style="color:rgb(5,99,193); background-color:yellow">https://forms.gle/LXp23ewyQcJ5zTp49</span></b></a></p>
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We’d love to have you join us by next Tuesday’s deadline (Oct 31)! Let me know if you have any questions.</p>
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Thank you,</p>
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Lauren</p>
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Hi all,</p>
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Please join the Center for Biological Diversity in petitioning the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to immediately halt issuing permits for CO<sub class=""><span class="" style="font-size:8.5pt; line-height:12.126666069030762px">2</span></sub><span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>pipelines,
especially those for carbon capture and storage projects.<span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
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<b class=""><span class="" style="background-color:yellow">Review the petition and sign-on here:<span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><a href="https://forms.gle/LXp23ewyQcJ5zTp49" class="" style="color:rgb(5,99,193); text-decoration:underline"><b class=""><span class="" style="color:rgb(5,99,193); background-color:yellow">https://forms.gle/LXp23ewyQcJ5zTp49</span></b></a></p>
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<span class="" style="background-color:yellow">Deadline for sign-on is<span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">October 31, 2023</b>.</span></p>
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Carbon capture and storage — aka CCS, or sometimes CCUS — is a dangerous delay tactic championed by the fossil fuel industry to continue business as usual while taking resources away from the needed transition to clean, cheaper renewable energy. In fact, in
the United States,<span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/carbon-capture-and-storage/pdfs/CCS-explainer.pdf" class="" style="color:rgb(5,99,193); text-decoration:underline"><span class="" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">95%
of captured carbon is used to extract oil</span></a>, adding to the climate crisis.<br class="">
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The<span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1198LPwlblg-wdbujqIG2H0LUekLvYXLR/view" class="" style="color:rgb(5,99,193); text-decoration:underline"><span class="" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">petition</span></a><span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>outlines
the Corps’ legal authority and responsibility to deny permits for CCS infrastructure, such as CO<sub class=""><span class="" style="font-size:8.5pt; line-height:12.126666069030762px">2</span></sub><span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>pipelines, under
the Clean Water and Rivers and Harbors Acts which prohibit the Corps from issuing any permit if it would be “contrary to the public interest.” All CCS infrastructure and CO<sub class=""><span class="" style="font-size:8.5pt; line-height:12.126666069030762px">2</span></sub><span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>pipeline
projects meet that threshold for denial, the petition asserts, because of the reality of climate change and the projects’ harms to Indigenous rights and environmental justice. For the same reasons, the petition also demands that the Army Corps revoke Nationwide
Permit 58, which is being used by CO<sub class=""><span class="" style="font-size:8.5pt; line-height:12.126666069030762px">2</span></sub><span class="x_Apple-converted-space"> </span>pipeline developers to avoid obtaining individual project permits.</p>
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Thank you!<br class="">
Lauren and Ben</p>
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