The 2020 Virtual People’s Hearing on FERC’s Abuses of Power and Law
September 23, 2020, 10:00am – 4:00pm
Community members and organizations from across the nation took the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to task at a virtual hearing for the agency’s years of abuse and bias. Organized by the VOICES (Victory Over InFRACKstructure, Clean Energy inStead) coalition, the People’s Hearing provided a forum for testifiers to speak out against the harms FERC has inflicted against the environment, communities, property owners and states in its approval of pipelines and fracked gas infrastructure. This is the second People’s Hearing the coalition has held after years of calling on Congress to hold hearings into FERC’s abuses of power and law.
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View the schedule of the day’s events here.
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VOICES has developed a robust series of reforms to the Natural Gas Act that are essential to end FERC’s abuses and the unfettered advancement of fracked gas infrastructure. As part of our 2020 Virtual People’s Hearing we are hoping to focus our asks down to a limited few — fearing that offering too many options will allow legislators to select the least helpful but claim they did what we asked. So please help us select the most powerful and needed reforms to advance as part of the hearing and reforms effort. Yes, there is a spot to add new ideas. Suggest reforms here: bit.ly/TopFERCReforms
Questions? Please email keeper@delawareriverkeeper.org