Say no to Port Ambrose

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An open letter against the Port Ambrose LNG Deepwater Terminal to Bronx elected officials:

We respectfully urge you to make your opposition to the Port Ambrose LNG deepwater facility known to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and to request his veto of the project.

 We are members of, and organizations in alliance with, Bronx Climate Justice North, the first grassroots climate justice organization in the north Bronx. We come from neighborhoods throughout the borough, and are formally allied to Bronx Climate Justice South, a coalition of environmental justice organizations in the South Bronx.

 Port Ambrose is a marine facility for off-loading LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas), proposed for construction off of Jones Beach, NY. Two buoys would be tethered to the ocean floor, connecting ships to a proposed undersea pipeline that would deliver into existing gas infrastructure on Long Island. Tankers the length of the Empire State Building would moor at the facility on a weekly basis to off-load LNG.

 Port Ambrose is not in the public interest:

 

1. Climate change hazard: LNG is methane that is cooled to -260 degrees Farenheit to liquefy it. This process concentrates its volume 600 times for transport on tankers. The process of liquefying, transporting, and re-gasifying is extremely expensive. More importantly, LNG has a climate footprint 40 percent larger than domestic shale gas, which itself is a greenhouse gas 86 times more potent in its global warming effect than carbon dioxide.

 

2. Displacing a proposed wind farm: Port Ambrose has been proposed for the same location as a 700MW offshore wind farm (enough power for 200,000+ homes). For New York to go 100 percent renewable, Professor Mark Jacobson of The Solutions Project and other energy experts have concluded that 40 percent of our power needs to come from offshore wind. Polls show that 90 percent of NY and Long Island residents support offshore wind. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), based in New York City, issued a report that stated that if Port Ambrose goes forward, the wind farm cannot be built.

 

Port Ambrose, Bronx Climate Justice North, Bronx Climate Justice South, South Bronx Unite, Concrete Green
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