Mobilizing to limit fracking - join the call on Friday

Dear Friends,

I just received this notice about this conference call coming up on Friday - Cove Point is not just one spot in the fracking wars. It is a leading indicator of how things will go. If we can hold the line here, we can help tip the movement away from more fossil fuels to the clean, renewable future we need. Please join the call if you can:

If you are concerned about the growth of fracking – in the Marcellus Shale and elsewhere – then I strongly encourage you to jump on a conference call this Friday at 2 pm EST with Bill McKibben of 350.org <http://350.org> and Mike Tidwell of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network. The call will focus on the Obama Administration’s efforts to fast track the export of liquefied natural gas from U.S. fracking production. An early test case of this newest dirty energy export push is at a place called Cove Point, Maryland just 65 miles from the White House on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay. 

Cove Point is the linchpin of the gas industry’s radical plan to send trillions of cubic feet of fracked Marcellus gas to Europe and Asia. Please join Friday’s conference call to learn how you and your group can join the regional and national fight against Cove Point. Time is running out to stop this export terminal, but great progress has been made in recent months and new opportunities are emerging. But we need your help.

DETAILS: 

WHAT: Conference call on efforts to stop the Cove Point LNG mega-export facility for fracked Marcellus Shale gas

WHEN: Friday January 10th at 2 pm EST--1 pm Central--noon Mountain--11 am Pacific 

SPEAKERS: Bill McKibben and Mike Tidwell

CALL IN NUMBER: 530-881-1300  

CODE: 703226

MORE BACKGROUND: If built, the Cove Point export terminal in Maryland would dramatically increase fracking and the build-out of fracking infrastructure in and adjacent to the Marcellus Shale region. It would make it more difficult to maintain the existing drilling moratoria on fracking in New York, the Delaware River Basin and Maryland. It would make it effectively impossible for Maryland to meet the greenhouse gas emissions reductions targets mandated by state legislation passed in 2009. And, if built, it would make it harder to prevent the approval of many of the other 20 or more proposed gas export terminals around the country.

On the other hand, if we win a victory at Cove Point and prevent construction, it will be a big win for the movement for clean air and water and a rapid shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. As an alternative to Cove Point, Maryland groups are demanding the state general assembly pass a radical RPS of 40 percent wind and solar power in the state by 2025. This would create many, many more jobs than fracking and gas exports. 

You can learn more about this campaign at http://stopcovepoint.org