“When Zulene Mayfield testifies next week against plans to build a $6.8 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in her Pennsylvania hometown, she will be facing off against some of the most powerful fossil fuel interests in the United States. As co-founder of the community group Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living, Mayfield has spent years fighting to protect her […]
ENERGY COMPANY PLOTTED GAS PLANT IN SMALL PENNSYLVANIA TOWN — BUT NO ONE TOLD RESIDENTS – The Intercept, July 2023
READ FULL ARTICLE HERE: https://theintercept.com/2023/07/17/chester-pennsylvania-liquefied-natural-gas/ “WHEN ZULENE MAYFIELD received a call from a reporter last summer, she was surprised. A journalist working at Philadelphia’s public radio station had contacted her for a story about a plan to develop a liquefied natural gas facility in her hometown of Chester, Pennsylvania, a city that sits along the Delaware River just southwest of the […]
Grid Article: “A global climate debate heats up as a liquefied natural gas terminal looks for a home in Chester”
Read this Grid article on the potential LNG terminal in Chester featuring an interview with CRCQL Chairperson Zulene Mayfield. ” If LNG is so great, why weren’t the Haverfords and Ardmores of the world lining up for a piece of the action? [State Rep. Carol] Kazeem wondered.” Bagenstose, K. (2023) A global climate debate heats up as a liquefied natural gas terminal […]
Hundreds gather for 3rd Annual Environmental Justice March in Chester, PA
April 22, 2023 – Chester, PA. – Over 200 people marched and caravanned from Chester City Hall to the front of Covanta’s trash incinerator, calling for an end to acts of environmental racism. Hosted by Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living (CRCQL, pronounced “circle”), the march demonstrated the need for clean air and justice for Chester City residents. Unfortunately, the […]
CAPE GAZETTE: Protesters Rally Against New LNG Export Terminals in P.A., N.J.
https://www.capegazette.com/article/protesters-rally-against-new-lng-export-terminals-pa-nj/243456 Chris Flood July 25, 2022 Event held at Rehoboth Beach Bandstand because it’s near Biden’s North Shores home Climate advocates gathered July 23 at the Rehoboth Beach Bandstand to protest two proposed liquified natural gas export facilities on the Delaware River – the Gibbstown LNG Terminal in Greenwich Township, N.J., and the Penn America LNG facility in Chester, Pa. […]
WGMD: Climate Activists Return to Rehoboth, March to Biden’s Beach House
https://www.wgmd.com/climate-activists-return-to-rehoboth-march-to-bidens-beach-house/ July 24, 2022/Alan Henney For the second time this summer, climate activists chose to protest in Rehoboth Beach because it is the location of Biden’s vacation home. This time they marched to the President’s beach house where they chanted and posed for photographs. Rehoboth Beach, state police and Secret Service vehicles parked along the side of the street so […]
47ABC WMDT: Activists Hold Rally at President Biden’s Beach Home, Push for Climate Action
https://www.wmdt.com/2022/07/activists-hold-rally-at-president-bidens-beach-home-push-for-climate-action/ View full article for the video of a news segment including an interview with C4 member Sarah Chang July 23, 2022 by Javari Burnett REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. – Climate advocates from across the U.S. hit the streets of Rehoboth Beach Saturday with one of President Joe Biden’s vacation homes as their destination and they had one message. “It’s not […]
BAY TO BAY NEWS: Rehoboth Protesters Urge Biden to Address Climate Crisis
https://baytobaynews.com/delaware/stories/rehoboth-protesters-urge-biden-to-address-climate-crisis,84505 DELAWARE STATE NEWS/KATIE REDEFERThe climate march concluded outside President Biden’s beach home, which appeared to be vacant this weekend while the president recovers from COVID-19 in Washington D.C. Posted Saturday, July 23, 2022 11:39 pmBy Katie Redefer REHOBOTH BEACH — Dozens of demonstrators urged President Joe Biden to declare climate change a national emergency in a protest that marched […]
WHYY – Could Delco get a major LNG export terminal? (June 14, 2022)
Plans for a massive liquefied natural gas facility and export terminal in Chester along the Delaware River have quietly been shopped around to current and former elected officials and their representatives from Chester City Hall to the governor’s office in Harrisburg. WHYY News obtained details of the plan, as well as the company’s lobbying efforts through Right-to-Know requests. Penn America Energy LLC, […]
“A proposed LNG plant in Chester would be gigantic and hardly anyone knows about it” Philadelphia Inquirer (June 13, 2022)
https://www.inquirer.com/business/liquefied-natural-gas-export-plant-philadelphia-penn-lng-20220613.html Penn LNG, headed by a native Philadelphian, has quietly lined up support to build a $6.4 billion liquefied natural gas export terminal near Philly. The energy project faces many challenges. The GWSI warehouse at Front and Lloyd Streets in Chester, which in a previous life was a Ford assembly plant, is said to be a leading candidate for a […]
