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Strickland, Bev
From:Ali McGhee <alimcghee@gmail.com>
Sent:Thursday, August 17, 2017 4:28 PM
To:SVC_DENR.publiccomments
Subject:No ACP: Reject the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
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.
Sincerely,
Ali McGhee
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J. Alexandra McGhee, PhD
Editorial Director, Asheville Grit
ashevillegrit.com
(828) 242-8399
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