Victory: Atlantic Coast Pipeline is stopped for good

The news just broke: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline has been stopped for good! Duke Energy and Dominion have abandoned plans to go forward with the project. This is a huge victory for communities along the pipeline route in North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia, our environment, and the climate. It means our air and water will be protected from the fracked gas pipeline’s pollution. And it sends a strong signal that we need to move away from fossil fuels. This was the result of years of organizing from frontline activists and communities, alongside people like you. Friends of the Earth members sent thousands of emails and made hundreds of phone calls to key decision-makers in Virginia and North Carolina. Your donations helped us organize a protest at the Supreme Court during arguments to decide whether the pipeline could cross the Appalachian Trail.  And just last week, you helped send more than 20,000 comments to FERC to oppose the extension of one of the pipeline’s key permits. Thank you for helping stop the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, Jessie. The proposed 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline was planned to move fracked natural gas from West Virginia through Virginia into North Carolina and Virginia. It would have disproportionately harmed poor, African-American and Indigenous communities all along its proposed route.  Thirty thousand Native peoples live in the project area across North Carolina. And the plan included building an enormous fracked gas compressor station in Union Hill -- an African-American community of great historical and cultural significance in Virginia. In addition, the ACP would have generated more than 67 million metric tons of global warming pollution each year -- the equivalent of 20 coal plants. The only ones who stood to benefit from the pipeline were Duke and Dominion’s shareholders. But together, we stood up to the powerful special interests advocating for the pipeline -- and we won! The Atlantic Coast Pipeline is just one piece of a broader nationwide fight. Communities from New York to Colorado to Oregon are still at risk from fracking and other fossil fuel projects. But this victory shows that when we fight the fossil fuel industry together, we can stop it from harming people and the planet. I hope you will continue to join me in fighting for a phase-out of all fossil fuels and a truly just, clean energy future. Standing with you, Donna Chavis, Senior fossil fuels campaigner, Friends of the Earth

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