Help Keep Boston Park free of Liquid Natural Gas Facility

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From Masspirg:

Last week, over 680 of you emailed your state representative about
safer alternatives to mercury products, convincing the House to pass the
Mercury Products Bill unanimously.

Now, we need you to take another action to ensure that the House stands
up for the environment yet again, by opposing a potentially destructive
liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility proposed for the Boston Harbor
Islands.

Please take a moment to ask your Representative to oppose House Bill
4500, which would transfer Outer Brewster Island to AES Corporation to
build an LNG terminal and storage facility in our Harbor Islands.. Then,
ask your friends and family to help by forwarding this e-mail to them.

To take action, click on the link below or paste it into your browser:
http://masspirg.org/MA.asp?id=1388&id4=ES

Background

Taxpayers in the Commonwealth have spent $4.5 billion cleaning up
Boston Harbor so residents and tourists can enjoy the beauty of the harbor's
beaches and waterways. To crown this achievement, Congress established
the Boston Harbor Islands State Park and National Recreation Area in
1996. Our years of investment have started to pay off, with cleaner
waters, more wildlife and 307,000 visitors in 2005 alone. But now, AES
Corporation, a Virginia-based energy conglomerate, is seeking control of
Outer Brewster Island to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal
and storage facility.

Outer Brewster Island, the gateway to the park and home to the harbor's
only colony of seals, is surrounded by some of the most popular waters
in the park, with great fishing, sailing, birding, diving and boating.
AES's plan would bring tankers twelve stories high and three football
fields long to Outer Brewster, displacing wildlife, disrupting
ecosystems and industrializing our public park. The facility would also require
a security zone restricting public access to the surrounding harbor
islands and waterways.

A decade after the park's creation, with billions of dollars invested
in the Harbor clean-up effort, why would we allow AES to devastate the
park, ruin the Harbor view, interfere with the public recreational
enjoyment and destroy valuable fishing grounds? We must make sure our
elected officials stand up and save our harbor islands. We must not destroy
what we have worked so hard to protect and preserve.

Please take a moment to ask your Representative to oppose House Bill
4500, which would transfer Outer Brewster Island to AES Corporation to
build an LNG terminal and storage facility in our Harbor Islands. Then,
ask your friends and family to help by forwarding this e-mail to them.

To take action, click on the link below or paste it into your browser:
http://masspirg.org/MA.asp?id=1388&id4=ES

Sincerely,

Janet S. Domenitz
MASSPIRG Executive Director
[email protected]
http://www.MASSPIRG.org

P.S. Thanks again for your support. Please feel free to share this
e-mail with your family and friends.