Anti pipeline/fracking activists protest Dominon's shareholder meeting

On the 6th of May, protesters opposing the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Cove Point fracked gas export plant showed up outside Dominion's shareholder meeeting. The Atlantic Coast Pipeline, a Dominion project, would carry fracked gas, possibly for export. The route passes through Native American burial grounds as well as communities from which some of the protesters came. Other protesters came from Lusby, MD near the Dominion's old LNG plant at Cove Point, which is being converted and enlarged for fracked gas export.

The Atlantic Coast pipeline as been called "Virginia's Keystone," and Dominion's under-construction gas export plant has also been compared to the Keystone XL. That's because gas export has the potential to radically accelerate fracking. Fracking poisons water just like tar sands do, and methane leakage from fracking wells makes fracked gas worse than coal for climate change. Raising the US wellhead price of gas to the three times higher global price could lead to so much fracking that the climate consequences are similar to burning all of the Alberta Tar Sands-in other words, game over for the climate and anything alive that depends on it.

http://chesapeakeclimate.org/press-releases/dominion-confronted-by-prote...