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Protecting our ocean from LNG!
Advocates: 'We want to protect our ocean' Pallone says LNG proposal is wrong energy policy
BY JAMIE ROMM Staff Writer - Independent - February 5, 2009

Article Excerpts:
Ocean advocates used a public hearing on a proposal to build an offshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility to rally opposition to a project they have dubbed "Insanity Island."

"Just remember, everyone, that the corporations whose projects, products and byproducts can result in permanent damage to ecosystems and health problems of thousands perhaps are portraying themselves as our friends who are lowering your rates for natural gas," said Richard Lee, board director of the Surfers' Environmental Alliance, Jersey Shore chapter.

"Well, those of us who take nonviolent actions to oppose these projects are known as ecoterrorists, but we are not. We want to protect our ocean; it's not their ocean."

Wearing T-shirts bearing the slogan "Stop the Insanity" and chanting "No LNG," Lee and other environmentalists weighed in at a public hearing held by the U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) on Jan. 27, as the agencies began the scoping process for an environmental impact statement as part of the official review of Atlantic Sea Island Group's (ASIG) proposal to build an LNG facility 19 miles off the coast of New Jersey.

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