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#NoNewPipelines in MD
Thursday, Nov 21, 12:30 - 2:30 p.m.
Smart Energy Hall at BGE headquarters
110 West Fayette St., Baltimore
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Oppose new pipelines in Maryland at this rally. Then attend the last of four hearings about Governor Hogan and AltaGas' plan to spend $33 million to “kick-start” a fracked-gas expansion in our state. [No surprise, as the governor's CARES plan for "clean and renewable energy" relies in part on "natural gas power with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology in Maryland.] Sample comments here. Sign this petition. The CCAN/Sierra Club Facebook event page and Sierra Club RSVP page have more information. The Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) will live stream the hearing on its Facebook page.
View the Salisbury hearing here, including testimony from Ruth Alice White of HoCo Climate Action (at 12:30 mins.) and Anthony Field of CCAN (7:45 mins.).
To carpool from HoCo, sign up here or email HoCoClimateAction@gmail.com. (If attending, RSVPing to Anthony Field at anthony@chesapeakeclimate.org is helpful.)
BACKGROUND: In approving the AltaGas merger in 2017, the Hogan administration pledged to spend $33 million to "kick-start" fracked-gas infrastructure in Maryland. (Plus AltaGas could spend another $70 million -- from ratepayers -- on this, too.) The General Assembly, in Senate bill 52, required the MEA to hold public meetings in 2019 about the governor's scheme. Please attend this final hearing and/or send your comments. The comment form is here; email comment as a pdf to SEIFComments.MEA@maryland.gov.
A far better use for those millions would be to repair fracked-gas pipeline leaks, which release climate-disrupting methane and can cause explosions, like the one in Columbia in August.
Instead of building new fracked-gas pipelines and compressor stations, we need to move Maryland toward clean and renewable energy.
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Young people and their allies around the world have been rising up to defend our future and holding Friday #ClimateStrikes for months. In September #ClimateStrikes alone, 7.6 million people took part.
Join the HoCo Sunrise teens at this strike in advance of COP25 in Madrid. RSVP here. Facebook event.
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Monday, Dec. 9, 7 - 9 p.m.
The 2019 General Assembly considered including subsidies for nuclear power in the RPS incentives for wind and solar. Instead, a study is in the works. Subsidizing nuclear energy would use our ratepayer money to give incentives to Exelon, the parent company of BGE and PEPCO. In addition, Governor Hogan wants to subsidize new nuclear in his "CARES" plan (summary here) for getting to 100% clean electricity by 2040. Energy efficiency, wind, and solar are far cheaper and safer than investing in new nuclear. (And the problem of what to do with nuclear waste remains unsolved.) Find out lots more at this event. Facebook event.
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