Today is the last day! Please do this. We have less than two hours to go! Paste the letter below (starting with Dear Governor Cuomo and add your name, address, and email address or phone number) into a Word or PDF document, then use this easy online tool <https://faxzero.com/> to fax it. Fax right from your computer for free. Faxes are more impactful than emails! Please do and share with your lists NOW. Thank you!
> Begin forwarded message: > > From: Dennis Higgins <higgi...@gmail.com> > Subject: [UAFF] FAX CUOMO NOW TO STOP Northern Access Pipeline > Date: April 7, 2017 at 1:03:55 PM EDT > > Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim > upstream. W. C. Fields > > Please send a fax to Governor Cuomo RIGHT NOW > (518) 474-1513 > > Dear Governor Cuomo, > > I urge you to protect New Yorkers’ air, water, health, safety, and > livelihoods by denying National Fuel’s proposed Northern Access Pipeline > (NAPL) a 401 Water Quality Certificate and Article 19 air pollution permits. > > A year ago, the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) wisely denied > Constitution Pipeline a 401 Water Quality Certificate because the number of > water bodies the pipeline would have crossed—compounded by Williams Company’s > construction methods—would have endangered New York water quality. NAPL would > cross more streams and wetlands than Constitution Pipeline, including > state-protected trout habitat and a sole-source aquifer that provides water > to thousands of residents. NAPL, like Constitution, also proposes to use the > quickest, cheapest, and most environmentally destructive method—trenching—for > all but a handful of crossings. Twenty-five thousand horsepower of new > compression will generate 150,000 tons of pollution annually, including known > carcinogens like formaldehyde, styrene, and benzene. Using EPA estimates, the > leaked methane and CO2 from burning this gas will cost New York, and the > planet, hundreds of millions of dollars annually in health impacts and > accelerated climate change. These facts, alone, are grounds for denying the > permits. But there are many more reasons why NAPL must be stopped. > > National Fuel, a multi-billion-dollar company, wants this high-pressure > 99-mile pipeline so it can daily transport half a billion cubic feet of > Pennsylvania fracked gas through Western New York with most of it going to > Canada. Aside from a few temporary construction jobs, tax-paying New Yorkers > would see no benefits; rather, they would suffer permanent degradation of > their land, air, water quality, property values and safety. National Fuel > has applied for a rate-hike to facilitate share-holder dividends, support > executive salaries, and force NY residents to pay for the pipeline themselves. > > Approximately 40 New York families have refused to sign contracts with > National Fuel and are now facing an unjust use of eminent domain for this > export project. Many more families signed under duress when threatened with > litigation. This is just plain wrong. > > I ask that you protect New York and DENY the Northern Access Pipeline a 401 > Water Quality Certificate and Article 19 air pollution permits. > > YOUR NAME AND ZIP CODE HERE > 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 t...@cornell.edu.
