ACTION ALERT:  Contact Senators Stabenow and Peters

MONDAY, MAY 22 to THURSDAY, MAY 25

The proposed 250-mile NEXUS pipeline would carry up to 1.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas daily under high pressure from Kensington, Ohio to a gas storage facility in SE Michigan. It's dangerous and we don't need the gas--it is destined for Canada! Call or email Senators Peters and Stabenow Senator Gary Peters (D). Then contact 3+ senators on the Energy Committee that will conduct the Hearings on Trump's FERC nominees (Sen. Stabenow serves on this committee). Scroll down for talking points!

                                  Senator Gary Peters (D) Offices

Email: https://www.peters.senate.gov/contact/email-gary (webform)

 Senator Debbie Stabenow (D) Offices

 Email: https://www.stabenow.senate.gov/contact (webform) 

The Members of the Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources are:

Background…

• Right Now, FERC can’t approve any new pipelines because they don't have the legal quorum necessary to do so. Let's keep it that way.
• We need to urge the senators to call for an investigation of FERC.
• We need to urge them to oppose the president’s nominations to FERC: Neil Chatterjee & Robert Powelson are closely allied with the oil and gas industry. 

Talking points...

• I am calling to urge the Senator to oppose hearings on the President’s nominations for the vacant FERC Commissioner Seats. The hearings begin this Thursday, May 25th.
• Instead I want the Senator to make it his/her/their top priority to hold hearings into the abuses of power and law being experienced by communities across this nation at the hands of FERC and to identify needed reforms.
• Without hearings and reforms FERC will continue to abuse its power and the health, safety and welfare of all decent people here in America.
• FERC very rarely turns down an energy company request. They are not really regulating energy companies, they are collaborating.

 FURTHER....

• Installing Commissioners advanced by a President with business interests around the world that conflict with good decision-making and energy policy here in the U.S., particularly one that demands loyalty to himself from his agency heads, is a serious national security risk.
• Pipelines shouldn’t go within 400 feet of schools or 50 feet of homes--and this one will.
• We have excess natural gas capacity in Michigan. Michigan's working families shouldn't bear the risk for Canada to get gas--and for Enbridge and DTE to get profit. 
  
  Thank you to the Delaware Riverkeeper Network and NoToNEXUS for much of this information and call-in information.