Duke Energy, the largest energy company in the USA, wants to do seismic drilling on the Atlantic coast and make customers pay through higher utility bills. On behalf of the people of NC, the Sierra Club needs to collect 70,000 signatures needed by NC Governor Roy Cooper to make Duke Energy and other "clean energy" proponents go away. Their argument is, this creates clean energy. But how can it be clean when it pollutes our waters and destroys the natural environment?
FRACKING or seismic drilling will upset the balance of a delicate ecosystem in the area, a natural habitat that has been in existence since prehistoric times. Some plant and animal species living in North Carolina live nowhere else in the world. Despite the imminent threat to wildlife and their natural environment, landowners and clean energy proponents downplay the dangers to this stable ecosystem while the media turns a blind eye or downplays the devastating effects of #fracking seen in states that have allowed it.
I have provided an excerpt from the Sierra Club's email response to my inquiry. It outlines a few things we might do to help get signatures and spread the word about this challenge that North Carolina faces. States that received the needed signatures were able to STOP legislation that would allow this invasive practice of fracking.
Please read the information below. If you need more information or resources,
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Hello,
Thank you for speaking with me! There are so many upcoming opportunities to participate in as we move closer to stopping this pipeline, so I'm excited to work with you on making some of these things happen.
1) Get your voice heard (and get your friends / neighbors to submit comments too). The easiest way to do this is to go here and get as many people to sign this as possible through August 19th! sc.org/nc-acp
Do Something for the Environment! Ask the NC Department of Environmental Quality to protect waterways from the Atlantic Coast Pipeline – do it before August 18th.
2) A group meeting on this -- Every 3rd Thursday from 6:45p to 8:45p at Eastover Recreation Center, 3637 Pembroke Lane, Fayetteville, NC 28301 (Eastover Community) there is a local meeting of folks concerned about the pipeline.
Facebook: Cumberland County Caring Voices
3) Write a letter to the editor at the Fayetteville Observer. They wrote a great piece about the hearing, now they need to keep hearing from people on this issue. The Sierra Club has a short guide on how to do this.
4) Host a house party and show a 20 minute documentary on this pipeline -- Won't Pipe Down.
5) Paper petition is available from the Sierra Club. However, it's most convenient to.use the online form (sc.org/nc-acp) whenever there is wifi or internet capability.
Thank you!
Thank you!
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