20140957 Ver 2_Public Notice Comments_20170818 (170)

Strickland, Bev
From:Emily B. <[e-mail]>
Sent:Friday, August 18, 2017 12:13 PM
To:SVC_DENR.publiccomments
Subject:ACP comments
Dear heads of the NC Department of Environmental Quality:

I write to ask you to reject the 401 water quality certification for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP). As a North Carolina native and an
American, I am deeply troubled by where we, as a nation and as a world, are heading with environmental and energy policy. This pipeline
project, like so many others, offers short-term monetary gains and sloppy, dangerous fixes over long-term policies that will serve future
generations, both human and non-human.

I am continuously dismayed by decisions that put money and business in front of health, environment, and community. North Carolina has
the opportunity to set an example for other states facing decisions about pipelines and other resources that are designed to bolster the
inevitably declining fossil fuels industry at an incredibly high price. Economic and environmental studies have shown repeatedly that the
way to invest in a future is through renewables, not by ignoring the death knells of an industry proven to damage human health and life on
earth that is trying its best to take us all down with it.

It is time to make a decision that holds our lives, and our world, sacred. Continuing to be ruled by crooked politics, corrupt corporations, and
selfish individuals at the top will not leave anything but ruin for those that will come after us. The decision made here will have ramifications
no matter what—choose the side where we all have a future.

Thank you,
Emily Busey
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