Send a comment opposing Texas LNG in the RGV to FERC!
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This month, the Texas LNG corporation is pushing for an extension to build their hazardous gas project near Port Isabel, TX. The community can now act to stop the extension for Texas LNG by filling out this form and signing onto the South Texas Environmental Justice Network's comment to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) before June 17, 2024. This LNG project threatens to drain the County of taxes, pollute the Rio Grande Valley, be terrible for climate change, and desecrate the sacred sites of the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas.
Last week, Texas LNG was granted a multi-million dollar tax handout from Cameron County despite being a failing fossil fuel project that the Rio Grande Valley community does not want. Because of community resistance, such as lawsuits, the LNG company has requested an extension of time from the FERC to attempt to build the facility (until November 2029). The fight to stop Texas LNG in the RGV is not over. Sign onto South Texas Environmental Justice Network's letter today to FERC requesting that they deny this request for an extension and cancel the Texas LNG project.
The public can submit their own individual comments to the FERC. Instructions are here: https://www.ferc.gov/how-file-comment. The docket number for Texas LNG is CP16-116-004, and the deadline is June 17 by 4:00 PM CST.
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To:
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
From:
[Your Name]
Subject: Comment on the proposed Texas LNG’s request for an extension of time (CP16-116-004)
I urge the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to deny Texas LNG’s request for an extension to build the project. I support communities in South Texas that would feel the negative impacts of the fracked gas operations and oppose the Texas LNG project.
In South Texas, several cities – South Padre Island, Port Isabel, Laguna Vista, Long Island Village, and Laguna Heights – that would be forced to live next door to the polluting Texas LNG project have passed anti-LNG resolutions or taken legal action to oppose LNG. The company behind the project, Glenfarne, has never consulted with the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas, the original people of the region whose sacred homelands and sacred site called “Garcia Pasture” that contains remains of burials and villages would be destroyed by Texas LNG operations. Garcia Pasture is on the World Monument’s Fund list of endangered places, on the list of historic places by the National Park Service, and considered the premiere historic site of Cameron County by a local archeologist. Additionally, Texas LNG would destroy vital wildlife habitat for the endangered ocelot and pollute marginalized people of color and Indigenous communities.
The proposed Texas LNG terminal would release millions of tons of greenhouse gases and worsen climate change impacts. The FERC needs to weigh the impacts on local communities and the climate the LNG terminal would cause in their permitting decisions and reject the request. I request that the FERC provide a public hearing for the project's request for an extension of time and an extension of the comment period because the community is primarily Spanish monolingual and economically disadvantaged.
Sincerely,