Please personalize the sample note, below, when writing these Council Members:
1) Julissa Ferreras, jferreras@council.nyc.gov
2) Jumaane Williams, JWilliams@council.nyc.gov
3) Ritchie Torres, (℅ Sindri McDonald) SMcDonald@council.nyc.gov
4) David Greenfield, dgreenfield@council.nyc.gov
5) Alan Maisel AMaisel@council.nyc.gov
6) Mark Weprin, MWeprin@Council.NYC.gov
7) Inez Dickens, idickens@council.nyc.gov
8) Mathieu Eugene, mathieu.eugene@council.nyc.gov
9) Speaker, Melissa Mark-Viverito mviverito@council.nyc.gov
(Bonus points if you call too!)
Dear Council Member,
Last December, you voted to pass the landmark 80 x 50 initiative, a plan to reduce the city's greenhouse gases 80% by 2050. With that in mind, I urge you to join your 26 colleagues and sign onto City Council Resolution 549, sponsored by Environmental Committee Chair, Donovan Richards. The resolution asks Governor Cuomo to veto the Port Ambrose LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) facility, proposed off our Brooklyn and Queens shoreline.
LNG is a super-charged climate changer. As you may know, methane (natural gas) is 86 times worse for climate than carbon dioxide. LNG is 40% worse than that, due to the enormous carbon footprint required to liquefy it, ship it. and re-gasify it.
Port Ambrose would worsen sea level rise and super storms. We cannot afford to continue building fossil fuel infrastructure that will require city funds to fend off climate change. And Port Ambrose would prevent the construction of a 700MW wind farm (enough energy for 200,000 homes) that is predicted to create 17,000 long-term jobs.
Please let me know if you will sign on to Reso 549, and thank you for your attention to this issue!