Friends, Thought you’d like to know about this ongoing action happening now on behalf of all who are sick of FERC rubber-stamping approval for virtually all new interstate pipelines, compressor stations, export terminals, and other dangerous and destructive fossil-fuel infrastructure projects. Maura Stephens === Begin forwarded message:
From: "Ted Glick \(Chesapeake Climate.org<http://Climate.org>\)" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: 12 People Fasting for 18 Days Demanding FERC Issue #NoNewPermits Date: September 11, 2015 at 7:31:05 PM EDT 12 People Fasting for 18 Days Demanding FERC Issue #NoNewPermits Twelve members of Beyond Extreme Energy (BXE), ages 19 to 72—from California, Virginia, DC, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Nebraska, Michigan and North Carolina—are in the beginning days of a planned 18-day, water-only “Fast for No New Permits” for fossil fuel<http://ecowatch.com/news/energy-news/> infrastructure in front of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), a virtual rubber-stamp agency for the fracked gas industry. Each weekday until Sept. 25 we will be on the sidewalk in front of FERC from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., leafletting FERC employees—over a thousand of them—as they arrive for or leave from work. We’re also passing out leaflets to thousands of others who work or live in the area who walk by. It’s not a very aesthetic area, mostly high-rise office buildings and condominiums. There are some colorful begonias around the FERC building and about 15 young trees growing across the street just three blocks north of Union Station. Also across the street is a 30-foot high stone wall on top of which the red line trains of the DC Metro subway system come by loudly every 10 minutes or so, interrupting any and all street conversations. For the 12 of us, joined by supporters and people fasting for shorter periods of time, this will be our “home” until Sep. 25, the day after Pope Francis<http://ecowatch.com/?s=Pope+Francis> speaks to a joint session of Congress. For some who have slept and will be sleeping here overnight, it’s a 24-hour “home.” Full article at: http://ecowatch.com/2015/09/11/fasting-for-no-new-permits/ For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ If you have questions about this list please contact the list manager, Tom Shelley, at [email protected].
