Скачать или смотреть EJS 2019 Session A2 | Natural Gas Infrastructure and Community Health: Victories and Struggles

2019 UMD Environmental Justice and Health Disparities Symposium

Moderator: Ruth Alice White, Co-Chair, MD Sierra Club Beyond Gas Committee

Panelists:
• Jennifer King, Owner, Eversweet Apiaries and Advocate, Boyd Carter Memorial Cemetery
• Leonard “Len” Zuza, Community Advocate and Resident, Solomons, Maryland
• Omega Wilson, President, West End Revitalization Association, Mebane, NC

The fight against natural gas infrastructure (NGI) is happening throughout the Mid-Atlantic. In Baltimore, organizers are battling the conversion of a retired coal-fired power plant to fracked gas. Just over the western Maryland border in Jefferson County, West Virginia, community members are rallying against the Rockwool Gas Pipeline an impending extension to the existing 4.85 mile Mountaineer Gas Pipeline. Not only will the pipeline present negative health impacts for residents, it also stands to erase the Boyd-Carter Cemetery, a historic African-American burial ground. More than 130 miles away in southern Maryland, Lusby residents are confronting Dominion Energy’s Cove Point Liquefied Natural Gas Export Facility. Panelists will discuss the specific issues and challenges related to these fights, impacts on public health, victories and the importance of activism and advocacy.