Frank Pallone, D. NJ
Sea Bright, New Jersey, July 11, 2013. I joined Cindy Zipf of Clean Ocean Action, (fact sheet) U.S, Rep Frank Pallone, campaign, and many citizens, including two children, one about 6, the other about 9. We spoke with eloquence, passion, and wisdom of the need to protect the shore, the biosphere, the bio-human-sphere.
“We need to build a clean and sustainable energy infrastructure,” I concluded, “one based on solar, wind, wave, geothermal and sustainable biofuels; an infrastructure for the future. These distributed systems can be designed to withstand natural disasters, human error and terrorist attack. Our future is at stake, and our children’s future.”
I spoke for about 3 minutes, cutting my prepared remarks about in half.
- Press Release: Furman.Port Ambrose LNG.0712 /
- Prepared remarks: L Furman. re LNG Transfer Station.
- Submitted to Regulations.gov, here.
- Surf Rider petition, here.
This is not a partisan issue. Rep Pallone and I are Democrats. Governor Christie is a Republican. The Governor wisely vetoed an identical project in 2011 has promised to veto new deepwater LNG transfer ports. Senator Buono and environmental / citizens groups should hold the governor to his promises. This is a disaster waiting to happen.
We need to look to the rooftops for solar, the oceans for wind and wave power, to geothermal differentials for heat and electricity, to build an infrastructure for the 21st Century.
