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Halt New Gas Infrastructure
On September 14, the Merrimack Valley faced an unprecedented tragedy - a series of “Armageddon-like” gas explosions that killed a teenager, injured ten others, and ignited fires in about 40 homes displacing many more.
Climate advocates have been warning about the dangers of natural gas for years, and while this explosion is tragic, it was not unforeseeable. We hereby call for Governor Baker--who has previously pushed for the public to subsidize massive new gas infrastructure expansions--to immediately issue a freeze on all new natural gas construction in the state until after thorough investigations both of what happened in this situation and of the many vulnerabilities in our existing system are completed.
We also call on Governor Baker to express his immediate and unconditional support for National Grid to end the lock-out of the USW Local 12003 union so that these skilled workers can return to the important task of cleaning up the tens of thousands of existing leaks in our state’s natural gas infrastructure.”
Add signatureI demand that Governor Baker halt all new gas infrastructure projects, until:
1) A thorough investigation into what happened at the tragedy in the Merrimack Valley is completed,
2) An investigation into the vulnerabilities of the existing gas infrastructure projects is completed.
I also call on Governor Baker to express his immediate and unconditional support for National Grid to end its lockout of gas workers union USW 12003.
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David Ludlow commented on Renewable Cities 2017-08-02 16:28:46 -0400For Boston, would this mean more than supporting B-CAN’s Community Choice Energy?
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Sign the Petition to Call for a Fair Price on Carbon!
Add signatureTo: Governor Charlie Baker; Senate President Stanley Rosenberg; Speaker of the House Robert DeLeo;
We, the undersigned...
to hold polluters accountable for the damage that fossil fuels inflict on our air, our water, and the future stability of our climate; to reduce our reliance on imported dirty fuels such as oil and gas, and build a strong, independent economy that runs on clean, renewable sources of energy produced here in Massachusetts; to protect poor and vulnerable populations, both from suffering an unfair burden from fossil fuel pollution, and from bearing the cost of the transition to a just and stable future; to honor the legal commitment that Massachusetts made when we passed the Global Warming Solutions Act, to reduce our emissions in proportion to what the best scientific evidence indicates is necessary to avoid catastrophic global warming; to write the next chapter of bold Massachusetts policy leadership, and demonstrate to the country and to the world that pollution pricing can be good policy and good politics; and to create a safe and sustainable future for our children, our grandchildren, and all future generations, here in Massachusetts and around the world...
call on the State of Massachusetts to put a price on global warming pollution.
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