Monday, March 11th, 2024 – At a public meeting held at the Steam fitters Union Hall in northeast Philadelphia, community members and organizations, including representatives from the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, spoke up to voice concern about the inadequate inclusion of frontline communities in planning for the proposed Mid-Atlantic Hydrogen Hub (MACH2). These communities were not invited nor considered when MACH2 planned the meeting as was evidenced […]
Community members left out of the Hydrogen Energy Conversation — CRCQL Press Statement (3/11/2024)
March 11, 2024 – Philadelphia, PA – Time and time again our elected officials promise to deliver results, include residents in the process, and plan for a safe future. Once more, today’s “Clean Hydrogen for the Mid-Atlantic” conversation showcases that none of that is guaranteed. Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living, a group fighting for environmental justice in the City […]
German Parliament Climate Leaders Visit CRCQL to Advocate Against LNG Expansion
Last week, CRCQL was honored to host Lisa Badum, a member of the German Parliament, and Jimmy Dögerl, Parliamentary advisor on international climate and energy policy, for a tour of Chester’s toxic waterfront industries and the site of the proposed LNG facility. Lisa leads national and international climate and energy policy in the German Parliament and has been the head […]
CRCQL Hosts LNG Community Meeting in Chester 2/17
On Saturday Feb. 17, CRCQL hosted an LNG informational meeting for residents at Christian Church of Chester, near the site of the proposed LNG facility by PennAmerica. Residents were presented on the dangers and health risks of these facilities, and examples of that has happened in communities like Freeport, Texas. Attendees were able to ask questions and express concerns. Together, […]
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE @ SWAT — SwatStories (2/6/2024)
For full article: https://swatstories.com/2024/02/06/environmental-justice-swat/ I began organizing in my freshman year of college. I was fresh out of high school, and out of quarantine from a global pandemic, and I enrolled in a course called Environmental Justice: Theory & Action at Swarthmore College. Swarthmore, an affluent, predominantly white, liberal town, is an 11-minute drive away from the city of Chester. […]
Democracy dies when Pa. pols tell their own voters to drop dead on fracking — The Philadelphia Inquirer (2/4/2024)
For full article: https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/casey-fetterman-lng-fracking-chester-20240204.html You’re hearing a lot in this election year about the threats to American democracy — especially from the GOP’s Donald Trump and his talk of a kind of dictatorship — but we don’t talk enough about the long-term, deeper rot of big money and benign neglect that hits home in a city like Chester, the working-class, […]
Chester LNG project promises return, despite Biden’s pause and other hurdles – WHYY (2/2/2024)
For full article: https://whyy.org/articles/biden-chester-lng-pipeline-penn-america-energy/ Prospects for a controversial natural gas liquids export terminal on the Chester waterfront appear in limbo, if not completely dead. President Joe Biden recently put a pause on all pending LNG export terminals. But the Chester project was already derailed before the announcement. Penn America Energy CEO Franc James told WHYY News that he “pumped the brakes” on […]
