Clean Energy, NOT Cove Point!
6 videos • 402 views • by Chesapeake Climate Action Network Virginia based Dominion Resources is proposing a dangerous and costly detour from our region's clean energy future: They want to build a web of new pipelines and processing plants across Maryland and Virginia in order to export natural gas to overseas markets. The development of Cove Point, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility located right on the Chesapeake Bay in Southern Maryland, is the linchpin in this plan. Dominion's Cove Point facility is the first LNG export terminal slated for the East Coast. It would drive demand for a surge of new hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," for gas in our region and require an expanding network of new fossil fuel infrastructure. While the gas industry would profit, we would pay the price of scarred landscapes, polluted air and waterways, livelihoods at risk, and worsened climate change. Fact: The new liquefaction facility that Dominion would have to build on-site to process gas for export would emit more heat-trapping carbon dioxide than all but three of the state's existing coal plants. In all, given the energy-intensive process of extracting, transporting and processing gas for export, Cove Point would trigger more greenhouse gas emissions than any other single source of climate pollution in Maryland. We are building a statewide movement to stop the Dominion Cove Point LNG Exporting facility. JOIN US at StopCovePoint.org