December 2, 2013: below is a statement by the Director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Mike Tidwell.
The growing, statewide resistance to a plan to export fracked gas from Maryland to Asia just got a new ally: The Baltimore Sun. On Sunday -- in the paper's top editorial -- the Sun said that the controversial "Cove Point" plan for piping Appalachian fracked gas to Calvert County, then liquefying it for shipment to Asia, was a challenge to Governor O'Malley not unlike what the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is to President Obama.
Worse, for Cove Point, the energy corporation Dominion Resources doesn't even plan to submit to a standard "Environmental Impact Statement". This is truly outrageous for a construction project 12 times bigger than Ravens Stadium and with huge climate change implications.
As the Sun writes: "Wherever one stands on the project — excited about the jobs or fearful of what it may mean for global warming — everyone should agree that the proposal should be thoroughly examined and vetted to understand the potential impact and trade-offs involved. Unfortunately, that's not happening."