No Permian Highway Pipeline, No Border Wall, No LNG

Hosted by the Austin Regional Sierra Club –

Austinites meet to learn about Permian Highway Pipeline resistance by our Hill Country neighbors, and Rio Grande Valley issues around the border wall, pipelines, and fracked gas export facilities—and take action.
Join us at 6:30 for refreshments or a light supper, then at 7pm:
• Overview of issues
• Film shorts
• Guests from frontline organizations
• Updates on issues – including the status of the “Critical Infrastructure” protest-chilling bill.
• Getting Hands-On: How we, especially in Austin, can help fight. City Council resolution against the Permian Highway Pipeline, anyone?

Why fight the huge 42-inch Permian Highway Pipeline? Here are some reasons, courtesy of Purly Gates, editor of the “Clean Energy Now Texas” e-news, in a letter to Kinder Morgan:
The proposed Kinder Morgan Permian Highway Pipeline would place a leaking, exploding, air-polluting, water-contaminating, property-devaluing, cheaply-made, hastily-installed and poorly-maintained pipeline through the fastest-growing county in Texas (Hays), regardless of imminent damage to endangered species, our land, our aquifer and our lives – for the sole sake of your company’s profit. The dirty, fracked natural gas this pipeline would carry is meant to be sold to Mexico, China and the rest of the world, yielding billion$ in annual profit for KM, while simultaneously bringing the planetary environment increased carbon, increased temperatures (well beyond safe limits), cataclysmic climate change and unknown depths of misery and death for the people of the future on this, our beloved Mother Earth. … COWBOY UP…… AND DO THE RIGHT THING: cease and desist.

Rio Grande Valley: The intersections of social and environmental issues in the Rio Grande Valley are enormous, and include: the treatment of asylum seekers and immigrants along the Rio Grande Valley and entire border with Mexico; the threats to indigenous sacred sites and burial grounds; the endangerment of people, animals, and environment; the nature preserves that the border wall has already in part destroyed; and local and planetary dangers posed by the three proposed Liquid Natural Gas terminals and their associated pipelines. There are many ways we can support.

One issue of overarching importance is the Texas Legislature’s plan to severely suppress peaceful, nonviolent protest by imposing severe criminal penalties for actions at “critical infrastructure.” facilities—including, for example, anything that could be construed as “impeding” an operation. The bill is halfway there, having passed the House. We’ll update this issue, but maybe it won’t have to be bad news-you can TAKE ACTION here and now: https://bit.ly/2ZFjyOn