[Green] Vote required: Should we sign petition ?

[Susan Henderson]

I vote yes
Susan Henderson

On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 9:41 PM Cindy Taylor via Green <green at fuusm.org>
wrote:

> I vote yes
> Cindy Taylor
>
> 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 CO
>> 2 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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