Come to an in-person information and organizing meeting at Bellmore Exempts Fire Hall on Thursday, October 30th from 7-9pm. 228 Pettit Avenue, Bellmore, NY Map here. The Firehouse is directly opposite the Bellmore station of the Long Island Railroad.

There's a lot of buzz on Long Island about LNG, or Liquefied Natural Gas. LNG is a volatile gas that is super-chilled to -260° to liquefy it for transportation. Now, a shady paper corporation with a bank account in the Cayman Islands, called Liberty Natural Gas, has proposed Port Ambrose, a marine facility that would bring tankers the size of the Empire State Building to deliver fuel into a proposed undersea pipeline off our coast.

Like a toxic whack-a-mole, the LNG port has popped up before: it was withdrawn in 2012 after Governor Christie (never someone known as an environmentalist) vetoed it off the coast of New Jersey to preserve tourism and fisheries. It’s now back again, threatening both the Jersey shore and New York’s coast.

The map below shows how the LNG port competes with the proposed offshore wind farm, slated for the same ocean location. If an LNG port goes in first, developers are unlikely to invest in building turbines where tankers that attract terrorist attention would be pulling up to offload their cargo.

According to Mark Jacobson's Solutions Project, in order for New York State to transition to 100% renewable energy, we need 40% of our power to come from offshore wind. Not only is offshore wind super strong off the Long Island coast (see red areas on the map below), support for wind on Long Island is also strong. According to a poll by Public Policy Polling, 85% of Long Island voters support offshore wind power if it is sited at least 12 to 15 miles off the coast (this wind farm is sited 17 miles out). That's far enough out to not harm birds or bats, and can't be seen from shore. Building safe, clean, renewable energy will creates thousands of long term jobs, while building the LNG port will provide only six permanent jobs.

Want to stop Port Ambrose? Here are three things you can do:

1. Contact your Sane Energy Long Island Coordinator to join local actions and outreach efforts. Send an email to: nolng4ny@gmail.com.

2. Come to an in-person information and organizing meeting (more info here) on Thursday, October 30th from 7-9pm. Bellmore Exempts Fire Hall, 228 Pettit Avenue, Bellmore, NY Map here. The Firehouse is directly opposite the Bellmore station of the Long Island Railroad.

3. Call your local representatives at the town, county, and state levels, call your local Democratic Club, and most important, CALL CUOMO, before November 3rd, and tell them all,
LONG ISLAND WANTS WIND, NOT LNG! Find your local reps here.