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‘In a dark time the eye begins to see ’
AUGTEMBER 2006
-THEODORE ROTHKE
TOM BURGESS
LNG IS ECO- TERRORISM
Eudora Welty said, in The Eye of the Story, that "Out of love you can speak
with straight fury.” And so we discover that "straight fury” is, indeed, our natural
response to the multiple LNG siting applications that threaten our area.
The devious liquid natural gas assault by power companies on community
after community around the edges of the United States, backed by an Adminis­
tration in Washington, D C., which is as good a club of petroleum CEOs, is no
less than an outrage.
“Straight fury” is the proper response to those who present us with lies
about LNG plant “safety”. The worst-case consequences of taking such a risk
— which have been well researched — are beyond our direst imaginings. We
love and try to protect our land, our clean air, our people, and our relative safety.
Many of us will move if one or more LNG plants are allowed to build here. Many
more will never come.
In straight fury, proportional to the depth of our love for what we have
carefully built and tended here, and for what we appreciate and care which is
given to us by nature — in straight fury we look an industry in the eye that should
have withered in the shadow of other energy sources decades ago, and say
“No”.
-CAROLYN DUNN
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