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Barnegat Bay Needs Your Help!
Please attend the Senate Environment Committee Hearing on Oyster Creek Cooling Towers
When: Monday, December 14 @ 1 PM
Where: Committee Room 4, 1st Floor of the State House Annex in Trenton
125 West State Street, Trenton, NJ 08625
We need your help! The second most profitable energy company in the world refuses to upgrade to modern technology that will stop its unabated assault on Barnegat Bay. The Oyster Creek nuclear power plant, owned by Exelon, kills trillions of fish and aquatic organisms every year through entrainment and impingement with an ancient once through cooling system that pulls through, heats, contaminates, and discharges ten times the entire volume of Barnegat Bay a year. All we ask is that Exelon install a closed loop cooling system/towers to reduce the plant’s destructive impacts to the Bay.
Show your support Monday for a bill that would do just that.
The Senate’s Environment Committee will vote on bill S-3041, which would require a closed loop cooling system/towers at Oyster Creek. This is the same technology that all modern power plants use and installing it would create a significant amount of jobs. The Oyster Creek power plant just received a 20 year extension for operations, so this bill will ensure that as the plant continues to operate it will no longer continue to strain the life out of the Bay.
In sum, jobs will be created as the plant is upgraded and the Bay will be improved resulting in a stronger coastal economy. It's a win-win.
Attend the hearing on Monday, December 14th and help us save Barnegat Bay!
If you are unable to attend, please phone and write your state legislator and tell her or him that cooling towers at Oyster Creek are absolutely essential. Click here to find your legislator
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Three industrial liquefied natural gas projects are proposed off the New York and New Jersey coasts to import foreign natural gas, a dirty fossil fuel. This will bring dependence on foreign fossil fuels, increase greenhouse gas emissions, lead to habitat destruction, security risks, and pollution in the region, and will close-off ocean waters to recreational and commercial uses.
What you can do:
- Forward our exciting new video to your entire address book!
- Sign the citizen petition. Tell your friends & family to sign
- Ask your town and organization to pass a resolution opposing offshore LNG projects
- Join us on Facebook & Twitter (search for "cleanocean")
Keep Us Free From LNG!
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Industrial Complexes for Importing Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Planned off NY/NJ Coast
Liquefied Natural Gas THREATENS:
· American energy independence
· Our environment
· Our wallets
· Our way of life
California rejected LNG from the Pacific, Florida rejected it from the Atlantic, and New York and Connecticut rejected it from the Long Island Sound. Our Governors must reject them here in the Atlantic too. New Jersey and New York must choose green and renewable domestic energy that creates thousands of good, sustainable jobs.
Click here to learn more about Insanity Island and the two other proposed LNG projects off our coast, and to join the campaign against LNG!
Click here to read COA's comments on New York's Draft State Energy Plan. Last year, Governor David Paterson re-instated the energy planning process when he announced his opposition and defeat of the Broadwater LNG import terminal proposed in Long Island Sound. Despite all the harms he discussed from such foreign fossil fuel operations, the draft plan, released this past September, favorably discusses LNG and a supporting document states that NY “should take specific steps to encourage investment in natural gas infrastructure, including LNG facilities.” As a result, citizens and groups turned out in large numbers to hearings on the Plan in Farmingdale and Brooklyn on September 9 and 10, respectively. The message was loud and clear, New Yorkers say no to LNG terminals in the region.
*** Sign the PETITION to oppose three industrial LNG ports in the ocean! ***
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WEIGHING EXPANDED OFFSHORE DRILLING
The Adriatic IV suffers a gas blowout.
Keep our coasts free from offshore drilling!
On September 21, the comment period closed for a U.S. Department of Interior program that will determine whether to expand drilling beyond the Gulf of Mexico to up and down the East and West Coasts. These areas have miniscule amounts of oil and gas and have traditionally been protected from such drilling because of their sensitive marine habitats. Don’t trade our precious coastal tourism economies for a few drops of oil. Our coasts should also not become a gateway to Liquified natural gas - a dirty, expensive foreign fossil fuel.
Clean Ocean Action's comments are available here.
For more information on offshore impacts, please check out our fact sheet on offshore fossil fuels.
COA Mission Statement:
"Our goal is to improve the degraded water quality of the marine waters off the New Jersey/New York coast."
Clean Ocean Action will identify the sources of pollution and mount an attack on each source by using research, public education, and citizen action to convince our public officials to enact and enforce measures which will clean up and protect our ocean.
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