To: stsimon who wrote (184896 ) 7/14/2014 2:55:11 PM From: Dennis Roth 1 RecommendationRecommended By evestor
Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 206191 not one person in a thousand has even heard of "Climate Science Watch". Hundreds showed up for the protest and it received television coverage. Residents protest Md. liquid natural gas facility wusa9.com Of course many are upset given the information they are receiving .Activists Prepare July 13 Cove Point Protest, Lawsuits To Fight LNG Exports desmogblog.com ..The terminal site is “next door” to the county’s largest recreational facility, Morin said. It’s also on the Chesapeake Bay, where LNG export operations would pollute the surrounding area with “heavy metals and volatile organic compounds,” materials which, “all have the same common denominator. They’re all carcinogens.” Additionally, gas from the Marcellus Shale contains radium, which, “will certainly decay into radon gas, which is yet another cancer causing agent,” she said. In addition to potential toxins, she said, nearby residents will almost certainly have to deal with light and noise pollution... Heavy metals! Radium! No wonder they don't want that deadly Marcellus Shale gas piped into Calvert County. Also, note in the WUSA channel 9 video clip the citizen concerned about fracking coming to Prince Georges and Montgomery counties. Anyone who knows anything about the geography and geology of Maryland knows the Marcellus and Utica shales don't extend that far east. The Marcellus underlies Garrett and Allegany counties in Maryland's thin western panhandle that's wedged between West Virginia and Pennsyl vania. Nothing worth exploiting exists east of Allegany county and nowhere near the Washington suburbs.