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    No DAPL: Send In Your Public Comments on DAPL Envir. Impact Statement (EIS) by Feb 20!

    Send your public comments on the DAPL Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) by Feb. 20. Here's a link to a great article with advice on what to include in your public comments, including the DAPL's impact on climate change and CO2 emissions.

    Grist Magazine:

    Here’s a new way to fight the Dakota Access Pipeline

    Commenters should tell the Corps not only to study the impacts on water quality, wildlife, and tribal lands, but also to analyze the greenhouse gas emissions and climate change impacts of the eventual burning of the oil carried in the pipeline in the U.S. and abroad

    No EIS has ever included this full scope of climate change impacts. (Washington state once came close in its own environmental process, but the project was denied for other reasons before we got to see how it would have played out.) Getting the Army Corps to include climate change impacts in the EIS would be a major coup, and make it all the more difficult for the Corps to find that the pipeline is not “injurious to the public interest.” It would also set an excellent precedent for assessing future fossil fuel projects.

    Once scoping is complete, the Army Corps will draw up a draft EIS, which will be published and opened up for public comment, typically for 45 days. To have the greatest impact at this point, commenters should use fact-based arguments that directly respond to statements in the EIS, not emotional arguments. If you don’t have the time or inclination to make detailed comments, it’s still helpful to submit a comment along these lines: “This project’s negative impact on the environment will greatly outweigh any benefit. I support the ‘no action’ alternative and denial of the easement.”

    More info here

    Another article published by Yes! Magazine written by the same author contains a sample letter:

    Send in your public comments by Feb. 20. If you have a great sample letter to share, please let us know ASAP.

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