- Target:
- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
- Region:
- United States of America
- Website:
- Sustainablemedinacounty.org
We, as local communities, have an inherent right—and duty— to [1] protect the land, water and air that give us life, and [2] ensure the health and safety of our residents.
Since April 2013, we have opposed Spectra Energy’s plan to run a dangerous, fracked gas, export pipeline through the heart of our communities, using every legal means available to us. Yet our system of government, at all levels, has failed to protect us. As 2017 begins, our resolve is stronger than ever to protect ourselves and this land by ensuring the NEXUS pipeline and compressor station never gets built.
Together:
- We defy a system of government that tells us we can’t protect ourselves from industrial harms because corporations have been given more “rights” than we who live here.
- We defy the gas industry’s plans to subject our families, communities, and natural environment to catastrophic danger for their own corporate profit.
- We defy FERC ’s conclusion that the NEXUS pipeline would have “less-than-significant” impacts to our air, land, water and communities.
- We pledge to protect our water.
- We pledge to protect our air.
- We pledge to protect our forests and precious wildlife.
- We pledge to protect our neighbors who have been targeted and harassed.
- We pledge to protect the future of our children, who must live with the consequences of the actions—or inaction—we take today.
With this pledge:
We vow to protect our communities through nonviolent Civil Disobedience if FERC gives Spectra Energy Corp. or Enbridge Inc. permission to poison our air, poison our water, clear-cut our forests, steal our farms, bulldoze our properties, and put our families at risk. Along with our financial and material resources, we pledge to put our bodies between the land we love and those seeking to destroy it. TOGETHER WE STAND WITH THE LAND!
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The We Stand with the Land petition to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission was written by Sustainable Medina County and is in the category Environment at GoPetition.