20140957 Ver 2_401 Certification_20170727

Strickland, Bev
From:Anne Cassebaum <[e-mail]>
Sent:Thursday, July 27, 2017 8:32 AM
To:SVC_DENR.publiccomments
Subject:ACP - 401 Certification
I wish to enter this statement in the record opposing permitting the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
There is no question that there are significant environmental hazards for this pipeline and they will
be ongoing as pipelines leak and this one will enable fracking a particularly damaging energy source.

All this is avoidable because the need for the ACP is very much in doubt.
Studies indicate that projected demand is expected to stay static through 2030. Claims that energy
demands will increase with population from 2000 to 2030 have not been born out and conservation
and efficiency measures could reduce demand significantly. With renewables increasing, the pipeline
will be even less necessary

It is, of course, hard to believe Duke Energy and Dominion Resources affiliates claims for reduced
costs as they will be asking for significant rate hikes often and pushing onto consumers costs of
associated building and conversion of plants from coal to natural gas as they release methane, a
greenhouse gas over 80 times more potent, over a 20 year range than carbon dioxide.

Our energy development should be centered on wind, solar and geothermal sources and
conservation and efficiency not backward on heavily polluting sources. We should have learned that
lesson by no w.

Anne Cassebaum
3469 Amick Road
Elon, NC 27244
\[336\] 449 6843
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