20140957 Ver 2_NO to ACP's Water Quality Certification_20170814

Strickland, Bev
From:Mary Curry <[e-mail]>
Sent:Monday, August 14, 2017 10:06 AM
To:SVC_DENR.publiccomments
Subject:NO to ACP's Water Quality Certification

Dear North Carolina DEQ Officials,

The economic and environmental unsoundness of allowing Water Quality Certification for the disastrous Atlantic Coast
Pipeline is undeniable to any reasonable person who isn't blinded by greed or fearful of Duke's power.

Why is NC's agency not looking at the much greater number of jobs being created in NC and around the US as well as in
Western Europe from building and maintaining solar and wind energy?

Rhe pipeline will immediately harm North Carolina IT will endanger the livelihoods of tourism and farmers and therefore
our whole population.

The economic stupidity of it is beyond belief, or would be if we didn't know the power of Duke Energy and other fossil
fuel companies to control public policy. 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.That, in turn, will devastate
tourism and cause more serious health problems for people. 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 pipeline management's application for 401 Water Quality Certification has little 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. To allow this wouild be to hand over our safety to a company that has proven
repeatedly that profit matters more to it than NC citizens' well-being.

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.

Mary Curry

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