Doug Jackson, 202.495.3045 or doug.jackson@sierraclub.org
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Atlantic Coast Pipeline, LLC (ACP) notified the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that it is stopping all work along the entirety of its 600-mile route. The decision comes just weeks after the controversial fracked gas pipeline lost the permits it needed to build through streams and waterways.
In response, Sierra Club Beyond Dirty Fuels Campaign Director Kelly Martin released the following statement:
"When we said we won’t stop fighting this dirty, dangerous, unnecessary pipeline, we meant it. Every day that this pipeline isn’t operating is a day that it’s not hurting our health, water, climate and communities. We are going to keep up our legal and public education campaigns against the ACP until it is permanently stopped because it makes no sense to deepen our dependency on the dirty fossil fuels that threaten our health and communities at a time when clean, renewable energy is affordable and abundant.
“This latest setback casts serious doubts on whether this fracked gas pipeline will ever be built at all.”
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