The wildfires in our area have been very destructive and disruptive for all of us. Lives have been lost. Homes, businesses, infrastructure and forests have been lost or damaged. Some people may never recover their former lives. Forests will take decades to come back as they were. The fires are still burning and we are faced with the Canadian Corporation that wants to put a natural gas pipeline through Southern Oregon. This is a 36 inch high-pressure pipeline filled with invisible and odorless deadly gas. After breathing smoke all summer and watching endless destruction on television every single day, how can anyone with a lucid mind think this pipeline is a safe and plausible idea?
Here is another thought starter.
Unanswered questions---sample letter---For the newspaper, politicians etc.
Today a problem area of my mind is the proposed LNG pipeline. I try to imagine what Southern Oregon will be like if the pipeline is really built. I really don’t like that image. A large area of Southern Oregon would be permanently damaged forever. What happens down the road when the natural gas is no longer profitable? What would happen if they decide to sell the pipeline? What would it be like if they decided to run another parallel pipeline along the same easement? What would happen if they decided to convert it to crude oil. We need to ask a lot more questions and demand some truthful and realistic answers. Maybe, just maybe we could all work together to get those answers.
