Lucy Gorelli, Pennington
Thank you for the article by Frank Mustac describing opposition to the PennEast pipeline.
Fracking is a hazardous, toxic way to extract natural gas, and as PennEast is proposing to put a 3-foot-diameter pressurized gas pipeline in Hopewell Township, and in several other New Jersey and Pennsylvania communities, endangering our health and our homes, and threatening our water supplies and our lives, it is heartening to see your paper reporting on some of the reasons why regular folks oppose the construction of a new natural gas pipeline, instead of seeing the barrage of slick, self-serving and intentionally misleading information that PennEast and the fossil fuel industry subject us to nonstop on radio, TV, the Internet and in print.
Most of us don’t have a say about the type of fuel used for our energy needs, but those of us in New Jersey who use natural gas can continue to use it from existing pipelines without yet another unneeded dangerous destructive pipeline. No regular citizen in Pennsylvania or New Jersey or anywhere else will suffer if the proposed PennEast pipeline is not built.
Eventually we might wean ourselves from fossil fuels onto sustainable energy sources. Ending fossil fuel dependence is necessary to achieve true economic justice, as even Pope Francis has written in his recent remarkable encyclical, “Laudato Si’.”
Thank you and please continue your objective and appreciated reporting on this important issue.
Lucy Gorelli
Pennington
