See the original Letter to the Editor in The Brownsville Herald here. Twitter post here.
Here's the transcribed letter:
Group exposes LNG exporting
Editor:
We are NotHereNotAnywhere, a group of environmental activists working to make Ireland fossil fuel free. We are writing to express our concern about plans by NextDecade, a liquefied natural gas development company based in The Woodlands, Texas, to export this dangerous fossil fuel from Brownsville to the port of Cork on the south coast of Ireland.
In July, NextDecade signed a memorandum of understanding with the Port of Cork for the potential development of an LNG terminal in Cork. The gas will be fracked in South Texas before being cooled, liquefied and shipped to Ireland.
NextDecade estimates that 3 million tons of LNG per year could be exported from Brownsville to Cork. We are strongly opposed to this project. For the earth to remain a safe operating space for humanity, global temperatures must be maintained at less than 2 degrees celsius above pre-industrial levels. To do this 80 percent of the known fossil fuels need to stay in the ground.
While LNG is sometimes marketed as a “cleaner” fossil fuel, methane leakage during production that it has significant environmental impacts. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that is 86 times stronger than carbon dioxide at trapping heat over 20 years.
When it comes to climate change, LNG is not the answer, it is part of the problem. We believe that instead of shipping fossil fuels across the ocean we need to work on generating renewable, sustainable, local, community based energy.
NotHereNotAnywhere opposes all new fossil fuel investment and infrastructure in Ireland and in the U.S. and stand in solidarity with anti-fossil fuel campaigners in Brownsville.
Aideen Ó Dochartaigh,
Ciara Barry,
Meaghan Carmody,
Ciara O’Flynn,
David McMullin,
Stefano Ferrari,
Sadhbh Lee,
Niamh Mac Namara,
Colm Tong, and Sarin Delahunty
NotHereNotAnywhere
Dublin, Ireland