In addition to the LNG export sign-on letter, i urge each of you to comment individually. Click below.

Jim Kotcon

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Deb Nardone deb.nardone@sierraclub.org 1/17/2013 3:15 PM >>>

Team WV,

An extremely important deadline is approaching. With the Dept. of Energy (DOE) considering exporting up to 40% of current US gas production through 19 different LNG export terminals, your voice couldn't be more important than now. Exporting even a fraction of that gas will have significant negative impact on our communities, the environment, and our climate. Yet, DOE has failed to seriously analyze these impacts. With the most recent economic study being completed, DOE is now accepting comment on this seriously flawed report, which fails to consider the lasting impacts exports will cause.

Please consider taking action, then help spread the word! We have until January 24th to flood the Dept. of Energy with comments. Thank you for all you do! Deb

TAKE ACTION LINK Dear Friend, Tell DOE Secretary Chu to go back to the drawing board and look at how exporting fracked gas could hurt our communities.

Would you hire a consulting firm with strong fossil fuel industry ties to study whether or not exporting fracked gas is a good idea? The Department of Energy (DOE) did just that, and you probably won't be surprised by the industry-friendly results.

This report has more holes than a block of swiss cheese, focusing on how the natural gas industry and the wealthiest people in our country will profit. The costs to our communities -- air and water pollution, environmental destruction, lost jobs, climate disruption and even increased energy costs -- are completely ignored or dismissed as unimportant to big business. Will you help get 10,000 letters by Friday to DOE Secretary Steven Chu telling him he needs to look at the full effects on our communities before any decision can be made?

Send your letter today. Tell Secretary Chu not to make any decisions about the future of exporting fracked gas without looking at the whole picture.

If Secretary Chu plans to consider exporting natural gas, then we deserve a study with the real numbers, the real costs, and all of the real facts. Allowing the natural gas industry to frack even more and export this fossil fuel without considering the harm to our communities is unacceptable.

Tell Secretary Chu you want the real story about how more fracking and exporting natural gas will impact you and your community.

Thanks for all you do to protect the environment,

Deb Nardone Director, Beyond Natural Gas Campaign Sierra Club

P.S. Please share this email with friends and family, and help get 10,000 letters to Sec. Chu by Friday!