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Three industrial liquefied natural gas projects are proposed off the New York and New Jersey coasts to import foreign natural gas, a dirty fossil fuel. This will bring dependence on foreign fossil fuels, increase greenhouse gas emissions, lead to habitat destruction, security risks, and pollution in the region, and will close-off ocean waters to recreational and commercial uses.

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Keep Us Free From LNG!

Photo by Ryan Struck

Industrial Complexes for Importing Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Planned off NY/NJ Coast

Liquefied Natural Gas THREATENS:

· American energy independence

· Our environment

· Our wallets

· Our way of life

California rejected LNG from the Pacific, Florida rejected it from the Atlantic, and New York and Connecticut rejected it from the Long Island Sound. Our Governors must reject them here in the Atlantic too. New Jersey and New York must choose green and renewable domestic energy that creates thousands of good, sustainable jobs.

Click here to learn more about Insanity Island and the two other proposed LNG projects off our coast, and to join the campaign against LNG!

Click here to read COA's comments on New York's Draft State Energy Plan. Last year, Governor David Paterson re-instated the energy planning process when he announced his opposition and defeat of the Broadwater LNG import terminal proposed in Long Island Sound. Despite all the harms he discussed from such foreign fossil fuel operations, the draft plan, released this past September, favorably discusses LNG and a supporting document states that NY “should take specific steps to encourage investment in natural gas infrastructure, including LNG facilities.” As a result, citizens and groups turned out in large numbers to hearings on the Plan in Farmingdale and Brooklyn on September 9 and 10, respectively. The message was loud and clear, New Yorkers say no to LNG terminals in the region.

*** Sign the PETITION to oppose three industrial LNG ports in the ocean! ***

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WEIGHING EXPANDED OFFSHORE DRILLING

The Adriatic IV suffers a gas blowout.

Keep our coasts free from offshore drilling!

On September 21, the comment period closed for a U.S. Department of Interior program that will determine whether to expand drilling beyond the Gulf of Mexico to up and down the East and West Coasts. These areas have miniscule amounts of oil and gas and have traditionally been protected from such drilling because of their sensitive marine habitats. Don’t trade our precious coastal tourism economies for a few drops of oil. Our coasts should also not become a gateway to Liquified natural gas - a dirty, expensive foreign fossil fuel.

Clean Ocean Action's comments are available here.

For more information on offshore impacts, please check out our fact sheet on offshore fossil fuels.

COA Mission Statement:
"Our goal is to improve the degraded water quality of the marine waters off the New Jersey/New York coast."

Clean Ocean Action will identify the sources of pollution and mount an attack on each source by using research, public education, and citizen action to convince our public officials to enact and enforce measures which will clean up and protect our ocean.