Wednesday, March 25, 2009

A Petition From Quintana Beach

A hint to my 2301 students about how to do paper #2. The Brazoria Facts reports on an actual grievance coming from Quintana Beach:

All but three town residents have signed a petition asking federal regulators to deny Freeport LNG’s request to bring big rigs carrying liquefied natural gas onto the island.

Quintana Island resident Harold Doty plans to send the petition, which has 36 signatures, to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission by week’s end in hopes of reversing the regulators’ March 13 assessment that trucks wouldn’t affect the environment on the small island city.