rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/letter/no-neighborhood-fossil-gas-plants-in-hempstead-town?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-letter-area-no-neighborhood-fossil-gas-plants-in-hempstead-town' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> All Our Energy https://actionnetwork.org/groups/all-our-energy-communications https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/letters/photos/000/203/604/normal/open-uri20211205-27687-1lgx5rk Click "Start Writing" to get your pre-made letter you can add your thoughts to and send with one click. A national venture capital group, Bloom Energy, is trying to install fracked fossil gas power plants in East Meadow, NY. They're greenwashing the use of fracked fossil gas by calling it "Green Energy" because they're using the gas to make electricity via fuel cell. Fuel cells that run on renewable energy are actually a great thing. Were the project charged by offshore wind or solar electricity, then it could truly be called “clean energy”. Though this project doesn’t “burn” fossil methane gas, the process still creates 78% of the climate changing co2 that burning the gas would.This also will add demand for gas which may require infrastructure we would all have to pay for, right when we need to be ramping down our methane fossil gas use and move to renewable energy. With the current blight of empty retail and commercial property, made worse by the pandemic, approval of a project like this would set an incredibly dangerous precedent for a wild west of unregulated, climate-unfriendly, fossil gas power plants jammed into neighborhoods, just because it “can” be done, without examining if it “should”. We say it should not. The Town must not grant the variance, and the town should update their zoning for modern housing options that could help create an influx of our young people working their way to the American dream, and reject any power projects that are not 100% renewable energy. https://actionnetwork.org/letters/no-neighborhood-fossil-gas-plants-in-hempstead-town