Today multiple environmental organizations called on the President's chief environmental advisor asking for a full environmental analysis of plans to export liquefied natural gas (LNG). The letter to the Council on Environmental Quality and the Environmental Protection Agency sounds the alarm that the agencies considering these export plans are not analyzing or disclosing the environmental impacts of the increased hydraulic fracturing or 'fracking' that would be necessary to support major LNG exports.
“Liquefied natural gas is not only the dirtiest and most polluting form of gas, but it also requires an increase in fracking; a process we know to be unsafe and dangerous,” said Deb Nardone, Director of Sierra Club’s Natural Gas Reform Campaign.
“Liquefied natural gas is not only the dirtiest and most polluting form of gas, but it also requires an increase in fracking; a process we know to be unsafe and dangerous,” said Deb Nardone, Director of Sierra Club’s Natural Gas Reform Campaign.
“The industry is pushing forward with these export facilities with their profits in mind, not the families who will bear the burden of increased fracking.”
Sierra Club Compass
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