20140957 Ver 2_Deny v2 the ACP's WQ Cert w Comments_20170814 (388)

Strickland, Bev
From:James Stone <[e-mail]>
Sent:Monday, August 14, 2017 5:18 PM
To:SVC_DENR.publiccomments
Subject:Deny the ACP's Water Quality Certification

Dear North Carolina DEQ Officials,

We have simply got to stop following the dinosaur direction of fossil fuels. It's over. It will result in a dying planet for our
children and grandchildren. Please see this reality. Save our beautiful landscapes, coasts, and waters from an eventual
spill like Deepwater Horizon. Now we have a livable ecology for now and the future, but if we follow the direction of
fossil fuel extraction and pipeline delivery it will hurt our natural world--our home. It's a real threat backed by real
science. No more politics. It's time to stand up for nature, for the future, for our children.

I am writing to urge you to reject the Water Quality Certification for the disastrous Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Duke Energy
hasn't shown that the pipeline won't harm North Carolina's waters, yet the company wants to dynamite and dig deep
trenches through our creeks and wetlands, which could cause massive erosion and spell disaster for threatened wildlife.

The pipeline will cross more than 560 streams, rivers and wetlands in the state. It will put our waters at risk of pollution
and long-term damage. And harms to any of these waters could also contaminate drinking water and hurt fisheries and
the economy.

The current application for 401 Water Quality Certification simply doesn't include enough information about which
streams would be subject to trenching, cofferdams or in-stream blasting. Without site-specific details, it's impossible to
know what the water quality impacts would be. This is unacceptable.

The combined threat to wetlands, forests, people and wildlife -- not to mention the lack of demand for more electricity -
- is more than enough to justify the rejection of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. I urge you to exercise the state's authority
under the Clean Water Act to protect our waters and reject the pipeline's 401 permit.

Thank you.

James Stone

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