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Summer Fracked LNG Series - Terror in Transit

Join us for the first in our summer forum series

Terror in Transit
Thursday, July 16 at 7:00 to 8:00 pm 

Register for the first webinar here.

The Proposed Gibbstown LNG Export Terminal: Using the Interactive Transportation Route Maps and the story they tell of environmental injustice and public peril

Featuring:
Maya van Rossum, the Delaware Riverkeeper

Tracy Carluccio, Deputy Director, Delaware Riverkeeper Network

Fracked gas developer New Fortress Energy wants to build a terminal on the Delaware River in Gibbstown, NJ to export Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). This plan would require fracking gas in the Marcellus Shale of Pennsylvania, liquefying it in Wyalusing, Bradford County, transporting it by truck or rail through hundreds of communities over 200 miles to New Jersey where it would be loaded directly into ships that would export it overseas down the Delaware River and past Delaware and South Jersey bayshore communities. This complicated scheme is fraught with danger at every step and will result in massive environmental damage to our water and air, unjust public safety and health risks, and will contribute to the climate crisis through runaway greenhouse gas emissions cradle to grave.

But the people who will be in the path of danger of these bomb tucks and bomb trains are unaware of what is coming if New Fortress Energy gets its way, and have not had a say about the project. This forum is focusing on the transportation routes and its hidden underside: the fact that people of color and low income populations who live in the high-hazard zone along the transportation route outnumber others and there are hundreds of schools and day care centers located where the most intense and immediate impacts from an accident or LNG release would occur. 

Join us to learn how to use the interactive map and interpret the population impacts.

Date: 
Thursday, July 16, 2020 - 09:00 AM