Pledge to Resist Cricket Valley Fracked Gas Power Plant in New York
BACKGROUND:
The Cricket Valley Energy Center (CVEC) is a 1,100
megawatt plant under construction in Dover Plains, New York. It will
receive out-of-state fracked gas through the Iroquois Gas Transmission
System, a pipeline project co-owned by TransCanada and the
Virginia-based fossil fuel powerhouse Dominion Resources. Advanced
Power, a Switzerland-based private energy infrastructure company, will
own and operate the plant. The plant is set to begin operations in 2020.
CVEC
has generated intense opposition from community members. The project
should raise alarm for a number of reasons aside from its destructive
impact on the climate. The plant is largely backed by private equity
investors, many headquartered outside the U.S., who see it as merely
another medium through which to cash in – even if this happens at the
expense of surrounding communities and the environment. - https://news.littlesis.org/2018/08/09/five-things-organizers-should-know-about-the-cricket-valley-fracked-gas-plant/
*We
recognize that expanding the delivery of fracked gas in any form
commits us to a future that not only destroys our health, food sources,
and landscape, but threatens sustainable jobs, locking working families
into ever escalating home-maintenance expenses that will crush the
average budget.
THE PLEDGE:
As Governor Cuomo, and our
state agencies will not make our health and safety a priority, we pledge
to protect the beautiful waterways, farmland, and air in the place that
we call home.
We pledge to protect our strong communities.
We
pledge to protect the land. We pledge to stand together in opposition
to the Cricket Valley Fracked Gas Power Plant , that would increase
demand for fracking our neighbors in the shalefields of Pennsylvania as
well as impact the land, the water, and the air in our communities for
generations to come.
We pledge that we will join others in our
communities, and engage in acts of civil disobedience to protect the
land, water, and land by directly stopping this proposed pipeline
expansion project.
We make this pledge for all who are living today, as well as for all future generations.