Manchin's Dirty Deal: Plastic
I posted a piece yesterday about the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a conveyance for fracked gas which is tearing up the heart of Appalachia. The US Army Corps is accepting comments on a Clean Water Act Section 404 permit which the pipeline needs in order to cross (and damage) hundreds of mountain streams - not to mention crossing the Appalachian Trail.
I gave a link to some talking points, a posting guide, and a convenient online form which I'll repost, but what inspired me to write here again is another talking point I haven't seen from any of the many orgs fighting this thing: plastic.
One of the main industrial uses for the methane in fracked gas is feedstock for the manufacture of virgin plastic. Need I say much about the gigatons of plastic we're already drowning in? Microplastic is in every ocean, every mountain, the Arctic, the Antarctic, our food, our bodies. We don't need to tear up pristine wilderness so a factory in Virginia (true) can get cheap methane to make more virgin plastic. We can mine landfills or recycle.
Anyway, drop a comment about plastic here, it only takes a minute. Deadline is February 25.
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-the-army-corps-dont-grant-mvps-permit
This is a better link than the one I gave yesterday.
Talking points here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ak-SizFsgN1FRLLshqm4vFvbAeA7bKdTba2hhziRwBE/edit#
ACE comment guide here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/10NMTqog9xViAPKzm-GUNC8NbxDkECAwO-eCgWr-cik4/edit#
This thing is really destructive and unnecessary. After all the con-destruction is over, it will only provide a few dozen permanent jobs. I mean, besides all the work cleaning up its mess. It is NOT in the public interest.
edit: Apologies for the double post. When I clicked to post this one, I got a message saying it was refused, so I changed the title and reposted.
Sorry! Should I delete this one?
