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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has paused new permits for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) exports, pending a review of their impact on our climate, communities, and economy. But the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has gone on rubber-stamping fossil fuel permits, including for LNG export facilities – undermining the climate and economic benefit of DOE’s pause, and insulting every activist who’s fought to end the era of fossil fuels.

If you already know what you need to take action, start here: Click here to send a comment with out friends at Ingleside on the Bay Coastal Watch telling FERC that the Cheniere LNG is already too big, and they need to stop approving LNG exports, and all new fossil fuel infrastructure, NOW.

We'll deliver all the comments in time for the next FERC meeting this Thursday, March 21. Plus there's additional resources on the page to connect with IOBCWA and all their work. If you want to know more, continue reading below the picture and check out the blog post for more updates!

We've been fighting FERC for years, but we're stepping up our efforts this spring because President Biden's pause on LNG export licenses at DOE has given us an opportunity. But, as we've told you before, LNG exports aren't only regulated by DOE. FERC issues the permits to build the facilities, while DOE issues the permits to sell the sell the gas to certain international partners.

Last month (February 2024), FERC approved the Driftwood LNG facility in Louisiana to construct and operate facilities a massive LNG terminal in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. This month (March 2024), FERC is considering allowing another expansion of the Cheniere LNG facility in Texas. And FERC is still being pressured to approve the massive Calcasieu Pass 2 (CP2) LNG export facility that Bill McKibben called "Biden's next big climate test" because it would generate twenty times the greenhouse gas emissions of the huge Willow Arctic oil project.

In other words, the LNG export building-boom is very much still happening. And fossil fueled fascists are hard at work this week trying to pass new legislation that will roll back or pre-empt President Biden’s limited, partial, pause on LNG exports – and mandate the construction of more fossil fuel infrastructure from coast to coast.

We'll be putting out new posts and actions every day this week as part of our UnFrack FERC spring campaign. But you can get started right now by sending a message to FERC telling them to require a full EIS at the Cheniere LNG export facility.

Thanks,

Drew and the 198 reasons to shut FERC down crew

Sources:

1. https://www.198methods.org/2024/01/25/biden-administration-moves-and-aap-solidarity/
2. https://www.198methods.org/2024/02/15/lng-exports-remain-unbound-time-to-shut-down-the-permitting-pipeline/#:~:text=If%20you%E2%80%99re%20not%20sure%20what%E2%80%99s%20been%20happening%2C%20read%20on%20for%20more%20information.
3. https://ir.tellurianinc.com/press-releases/detail/283/tellurian-receives-ferc-extension-for-driftwood-lng
4. https://www.iobcwa.org/cheniere-lng.html
5. https://x.com/wealsoherdcats/status/1769785764173259222?s=20
6. https://www.198methods.org/2024/01/11/take-it-to-the-streets-to-end-climate-killing-fossil-fuel-exports/
7. https://www.198methods.org/2024/02/15/lng-exports-remain-unbound-time-to-shut-down-the-permitting-pipeline/

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