Doug Jackson, 202.495.3045 or doug.jackson@sierraclub.org
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Associated Press broke the news that Dan Weekley, Vice President of Corporate Affairs at Dominion Energy, told a gathering of fracked gas industry insiders that the company had plans to extend the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline into South Carolina, despite only releasing maps that show it ending in North Carolina. At the September 21, 2017, SC Clean Energy Summit, Weekley said “(e)verybody knows it’s not going to end in Lumberton,” referring to the publicly-proposed stopping point of the fracked gas pipeline’s route. This revelation contradicts not only what Dominion told the public, but what they told the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina regulators, as well.
In response, Kelly Martin, Director of the Beyond Dirty Fuels campaign for the Sierra Club released the following statement:
"Dominion’s comments to industry insiders confirm what we have suspected all along - the polluters behind these fracked gas pipelines tell each other one thing and tell the public another. If we can’t trust Dominion and Duke Energy to be honest about something as simple as the route of a fracked gas project -- not to mention the threats it poses to our water and communities -- what can we trust them to be honest about?”
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