FERC response to Senator Warner re scoping meetings

They also sent a letter to Tim Kaine, no doubt with the same response that they did not feel other meetings were necessary.

I would suggest another campaign to write to FERC emphasizing the idea that there were several methods set up to hear interested parties, and as such there is an expectation that each of these venues be open to as many people as wish to use them.

Saying that the commission will enetertain letters and emails doesn’t help the person who does not communicate well in that fashion.

By locating scoping meetings  number in such a way that the poorest and least able to use letters and emails, or travel distances have been excluded from this process.

If letters and emails were sufficient to satisfy this need there would have been no allowance for meetings at all, and FERC could simply say everyone must write to us, it is not necessary to listen to the public face to face.

This pipeline locates a major appliance, a 32,000 hp com[pressor station in an economically poor area.

Internet is limited, there is not even dsl serving the immediate vicinity at all.  So these people will be limited to writing letters since FERC has issued their response totally favoring the ACP schedule and disenfranchising many of the people who will be affected most.