At the Earth Day celebration in downtown Jim Thorpe yesterday I worked a table for “Save Carbon County,” an environmental group that is opposing the PennEast pipeline. We had people sign postcards to the Delaware River Basin Commission asking that agency to prevent early tree cutting before the pipeline was actually approved. In the past the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, a.k.a. lapdog of the pipeline companies, has approved tree cutting along a route that was never used for a pipeline. We are hoping the DRBC, a much more environmentally sensitive agency, can make sure that doesn’t happen.
The day went well. We collected over 200 postcards.
One thing that did bother me was that the event organizers did not have any recycle bins. I pulled some aluminum cans and plastic water bottles out of the trash, but I’ll have to talk to the organizers to see this doesn’t happen again.
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