[Green] Vote required: Should we sign petition ?

[Dawn Hewitt]

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. 

Thanks!  —dawn

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> From: Lauren Parker <lparker at biologicaldiversity.org>
> Subject: Join us? Re: Sign on – petition to stop permitting CCS false solution infrastructure
> Date: October 25, 2023 at 3:13:43 PM EDT
> To: "hewitt at earth-maker.com" <hewitt at earth-maker.com>
> 
> Hi Dawn!
> 
> 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 CO2 pipelines, especially those for carbon capture and storage projects.
> 
> You can review the petition and sign-on here: https://forms.gle/LXp23ewyQcJ5zTp49 <https://forms.gle/LXp23ewyQcJ5zTp49>
> We’d love to have you join us by next Tuesday’s deadline (Oct 31)! Let me know if you have any questions.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Lauren
> 
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> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Please join the Center for Biological Diversity in petitioning the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to immediately halt issuing permits for CO2 pipelines, especially those for carbon capture and storage projects. 
> 
> Review the petition and sign-on here: https://forms.gle/LXp23ewyQcJ5zTp49 <https://forms.gle/LXp23ewyQcJ5zTp49>
> Deadline for sign-on is October 31, 2023.
> 
> 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, 95% of captured carbon is used to extract oil <https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/carbon-capture-and-storage/pdfs/CCS-explainer.pdf>, adding to the climate crisis.
> 
> The petition <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1198LPwlblg-wdbujqIG2H0LUekLvYXLR/view> outlines the Corps’ legal authority and responsibility to deny permits for CCS infrastructure, such as CO2 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 CO2 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 CO2 pipeline developers to avoid obtaining individual project permits.
> 
> Thank you!
> Lauren and Ben
> 

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