URGENT: Tell Biden Administration to Halt Massive CP2 Fossil Fuel Project – Add Your Voice for Climate Justice
President Biden and Department of Energy Secretary Granholm
President Biden and Secretary of Energy Granholm are currently considering the approval of a massive gas export project on the Gulf Coast of Louisiana called CP2 LNG – a proposed liquefied “natural” gas (LNG) terminal that would be the largest volume of LNG, or liquefied methane gas, ever approved for export.
CP2 is the largest LNG export project ever considered. If approved and fully built, CP2 would unleash 20 times the annual emissions from burning the oil produced at the Willow drilling project in Alaska and would be equivalent to the emissions from more than 42 million gas-powered cars or 51 coal-fired power plants.
Louisiana is already under increased threat with hurricanes intensifying over the last few years due to the ongoing climate crisis. The thought of the Biden Administration moving forward with approving more fossil fuel infrastructure adjacent to communities that have been battling the worst impacts of the climate crisis is tragic and unacceptable.
Add your voice for climate justice and sign the petition calling on the Department of Energy to stop CP2 and all new LNG permit approvals.
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President Biden and Department of Energy Secretary Granholm
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[Your Name]
Dear President Biden and Secretary Granholm:
I am writing with an urgent request that you do not grant approval for Venture Global’s gas export project, CP2 LNG, in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. This proposed liquefied “natural” gas terminal would be the largest volume of LNG ever approved for export.
The potential consequences of CP2 are devastating. At full volume, the unleashed emissions of fracking, liquefying, shipping, regasifying, and burning that much gas will add up to 190 million tonnes of CO2e each year – 20 times the annual emissions from burning the oil produced at the Willow drilling project in Alaska, and equivalent to the emissions from more than 42 million gas-powered cars or 51 coal-fired power plants.
CP2 LNG’s sister facility, Calcasieu Pass LNG, which will be located next door, was found to have more than 2,000 air permit deviations, violating its permit on 286 out of the first 342 days it was in operation. CP2’s pollution, traffic, sprawl, and visual impact would hurt nine communities, including Cameron, Creole, Grand Lake, the Lake Charles suburbs, Vinton, Starks, and Deweyville, Texas, and would destroy more than 1,700 irreplaceable wetlands, marshes, and chenieres along the Louisiana coast. Shrimpers and fishermen have helped lead the opposition to Calcasieu Pass LNG and CP2, citing the threats to their way of life.
I also urge the DOE to reassess how it determines whether new licenses for LNG exports are in the public interest. The current framework has led to the approval of LNG facilities to export gas overseas, burdening communities with the risks and impacts of extraction, transport, and export facilities. Consequently, the climate is impacted by the burning of this dirty fracked gas, and Americans and their families are further strained by rising prices of energy and other goods as a result of sending energy overseas for higher prices. In particular, DOE’s current approach to making such determinations does not fully or accurately consider how LNG exports impact the climate, environmental justice, national security, or domestic energy prices.
I implore you to deny Venture Global’s application to the Department of Energy to export LNG from their proposed CP2 facility due to the numerous negative impacts it would have on Gulf communities, the economy, and the climate.
Thank you for your consideration.