TELL NJ OFFICIALS: STOP THE PENNEAST PIPELINE FROM DESTROYING OUR WATERWAYS!
The PennEast Pipeline Company has submitted an application to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJ DEP) to construct a 118 mile gas pipeline threatening important natural resources - including some of New Jersey's cleanest streams, and the communities of Holland, Milford, and Alexandria in the southwestern corner of the New Jersey Highlands. This proposal is unwanted and unnecessary, and there is tremendous opposition from all over New Jersey including state legislators to stop this pipeline project going any further.
In addition to the direct environmental damage construction of this pipeline would cause, infrastructure projects of this kind lock us into the habit of using fossil fuels, which are a finite resource. Further, using these energy sources negatively affects human health and contributes to global climate change which is already wreaking havoc in New Jersey.
Recently a federal court ruled that natural gas companies do not have the right to use eminent domain to seize state owned land to build on. This decision prevents PennEast gaining access to almost a third of the land it requires for the pipeline route.
However, the effort to block this pipeline is not over. We're asking you to raise your voice, sign the petition to call on the Murphy Administration to permanently reject outright PennEast's applications and protect the New Jersey communities, and safeguard our natural resources.
Sign the petition to tell the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to reject permits for PennEast.
We urge you to deny the water quality certification and wetlands permits to the PennEast Pipeline Company. There is no public need for the pipeline according to the NJ Rate Counsel, and construction would irreparably harm streams and other natural resources that New Jersey is required to protect under state and federal law.
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You can read more about the flaws of this proposal on the ReThinkEnergyNJ website.
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The New Jersey Highlands Coalition
We represent a diverse network of organizations - small and large, local, regional, statewide and national - and individuals with the common goal to protect, enhance and restore the New Jersey Highlands, and to preserve the quality and quantity of drinking water for the 6.2 million people who depend on Highlands water.
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