20140957 Ver 2_I OPPOSE THE ATLANTIC COAST PIPELINE_20170721

Strickland, Bev
From:Anne Schrader <[e-mail]>
Sent:Friday, July 21, 2017 6:38 PM
To:SVC_DENR.publiccomments
Subject:I OPPOSE THE ATLANTIC COAST PIPELINE - Rocky Mount Hearing
July 20, 2017

Point 1. Duke Energy has NOT demonstrated a need for another massive, methane leaking pipeline that
would further contribute to global warming as well as long term economic damage to North Carolina.

I know this personally because I can feel the record breaking temperatures outside forcing citizens to stay
inside.

I know this personally because my family (and hundreds of thousands of families across North Carolina) were
decimated and lost their homes, lives, businesses, and jobs by last year's Hurricane Matthew --one of the worst
and most expensive environmental disasters in North Carolina history and directly related to the climate change
these pipelines cause all over the world.

THIS PIPELINE WOULD HARM and further contribute to more environmental disasters in OUR BELOVED
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA

Point 2. Duke Energy has NOT demonstrated that it will not harm the water quality of the estimated 236-560
wetlands, streams, and rivers that the toxic pipeline would dynamite, drill, and dig up.

Duke Energy CANNOT demonstrate they won't harm these precious waterways as the VERY nature of these
pipelines leak toxic methane and trap polluted, heated air into the atmosphere; these pipelines explode and
damage lives and property--also posing a wartime nightmare with Fort Bragg as a target; and these pipelines
leak toxic-CANCER CAUSING, irr-e-me-diable (UNCLEANABLE) chemicals into the waterways as they
so devastatingly do, every day, all over the world.

Point 3.
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Duke Energy HAS demonstrated that it WILL HARM and has ALREADY harmed our precious waterways in
our beloved State of North Carolina by knowingly dumping COAL ASH into the historical Cape Fear AND
Lumber Rivers where the citizens receive their drinking water. Let that Truth and Reality sink in.

And a good indication of a person or corporations future behavior is their past behavior!

LOOK NOT TO WHAT DUKE SAYS, BUT WHAT THEY HAVE ALREADY DONE AND WILL SURELY
DO AGAIN. DUKE ENERGY'S ACTIONS SPEAK LOWDER THAN THEIR WORDS and permit
applications.

Point 4.
North Carolina's waterways, soil, and air is ALREADY being overwhelmingly polluted and HARMED
by some of the largest Agriculture Industries of hog, chicken, and cow waste in the nation. Adding to this, with
the 3rd largest toxic fossil fuel pipeline in the nation, would collectively push the citizen, environmental, and
economic well begin of our state to a tipping point beyond repair.

Point 5.
Duke Energy has NOT FULLY DEMONSTRATED OR PUBLICALLY DISCLOSED the full human and
environmental impact posed by its secondary, Piedmont Pipeline, which would continue to traverse from
Pembroke, through wetlands, swamps and the Lumber river --where the citizens receive their drinking
water. Moreover, the discriminatory socio economic pipeline thickness standards for poorer, more rural areas is
an OUTRAGE AND UNACCEPTABLE.

Point 6.
The ACP is bad for North Carolina's LONG TERM Economic well being.
One year of construction jobs is in no way better than or even equal to 40 years of unhealthy fossil fuel
dependence and rate increases; generational property and business devaluation; human and animal medical
costs; polluted irremediable waterways and drinking water; and toxic, unbreatheable air.

The time to move from the harmful, dirty, and price- fluctuating coal and fossil fuel industry to the renewable,
truly clean, and FREE solar, wind, and tidal industry is NOW not AFTER you've decimated and polluted our
lands, rivers, oceans, and air ALL NEEDED for human and environmental survival!
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A side not to the fossil fuel lobbyists: Renewable energy is harvested, stored, shared, and sold for profit even
when the sun goes down and the wind doesn’t blow.

Denmark's wind turbines already at times generate more electricity than the country consumes exporting the
surplus to Germany, Norway, and Sweden. Last year, Germany to 87% of its power from wind and solar. I
know we in NC can do the same!

Finally, North Carolina is ALREADY a leader in the nation in healthy, job producing, renewable energy. It
is HARMFUL, RECKLESS, AND INSANE to prevent this life sustaining momentum by locking our beloved
state into 4o years of environmentally degrading, fossil fuel dependency.

The very nature of our United States was founded on INDEPENDENCE--something Duke and the fossil energy
tout in their talking points. Yet these are the very corporations keeping US, their customers, DE-
pendent upon them for their unhealthy, pollution causing fuel and forcing us to pay for it with our incomes
and rate increases, our health, and our well being. How is THAT the American Way to Life, Liberty, and the
pursuit to Happiness?

You must not and cannot certify the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline.

Look both short AND LONG TERM: It is bad for the people, our land, our waterways, our drinking water that
we need to survive, our precious forests, our animals, our economy (think environmental disasters caused by
methane/pipelines that contribute to global warming and climate change).

Do the right thing for the well being of future generations.

~Thank you~

Anne Schrader of Fayetteville, NC
Anne M. Schrader
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