Local minister joins peaceful sit-in demanding a full federal
Environmental Impact Statement for $3.8 billion project that could fast-track fracking
Environmental Impact Statement for $3.8 billion project that could fast-track fracking
Four Western Marylanders, led by a Unitarian minister and founding member of IMAC, Rev. Terry Ellen, were peacefully arrested on in Cumberland protesting Cove Point. The protesters were released by the Cumberland city police the same afternoon with misdemeanor citations.
Western Marylanders Arrested at Cumberland Courthouse in Protest of Cove Point Fracked Gas Export Plan (CCAN)
CUMBERLAND—A local Unitarian minister and three western Maryland residents were arrested just before noon today outside the Allegany County Courthouse in Cumberland for peacefully protesting Virginia-based Dominion Resources’ plan to build a liquefied natural gas export facility at Cove Point in southern Maryland. The protesters blocked the courthouse entrance to demand justice in the controversial federal handling of the massive $3.8 billion project, which would take nearly a billion cubic feet of gas per day from fracking wells across the Appalachian region, liquefy it on the Chesapeake Bay, and export it to Asia.
“I am here today as both a citizen of this beautiful state and as a minister deeply concerned that the proposed Cove Point gas export facility would take us in exactly the wrong direction,” said Reverend Terence Ellen, a minister at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Greater Cumberland. “It is inconceivable to me that a project so huge and so potentially harmful to our health and welfare would not even receive a full Environmental Impact Statement. We’re sitting in today because the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is failing to serve the public.”
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- See statements by the four activists on why they engaged in civil disobedience over Cove Point.
- See full press release from Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN).
- See photos from the protest.
Western Marylanders Arrested at Cumberland Courthouse in Protest of Cove Point Fracked Gas Export Plan (CCAN)
CUMBERLAND—A local Unitarian minister and three western Maryland residents were arrested just before noon today outside the Allegany County Courthouse in Cumberland for peacefully protesting Virginia-based Dominion Resources’ plan to build a liquefied natural gas export facility at Cove Point in southern Maryland. The protesters blocked the courthouse entrance to demand justice in the controversial federal handling of the massive $3.8 billion project, which would take nearly a billion cubic feet of gas per day from fracking wells across the Appalachian region, liquefy it on the Chesapeake Bay, and export it to Asia.
“I am here today as both a citizen of this beautiful state and as a minister deeply concerned that the proposed Cove Point gas export facility would take us in exactly the wrong direction,” said Reverend Terence Ellen, a minister at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Greater Cumberland. “It is inconceivable to me that a project so huge and so potentially harmful to our health and welfare would not even receive a full Environmental Impact Statement. We’re sitting in today because the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is failing to serve the public.”
See full story here.
See statements by the four activists on why they engaged in civil disobedience over Cove Point.
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