[Green] Vote required: Should we sign petition ?

[anne sparks]

Thanks Dawn, I appreciate being on this mailing list and I plan to continue
attending meetings when I can, but I don't know that I should be considered
a voting member. But in case my opinion counts, I do support this petition.
I don't see a way to sign it as an individual, but I will pass it on to
Third Act Ohio, in case they can sign!
Anne

On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 9:17 PM Dawn Hewitt via Green <green at fuusm.org>
wrote:

> 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
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> *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 CO
> 2 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
>
> ---
>
> 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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