Clean Ocean Action (COA) is a broad-based coalition of 125 business, community, conservation, environmental, fishing, boating, diving, student, surfing, women's, and service groups.  These "Ocean Wavemakers" work to clean up and protect the waters of the New York Bight.  The groups came together in 1984 to investigate sources, effects, and solutions of ocean pollution.  What follows is a description of the network.( taken from COE website)

I believe this to be one of the best citizen groups around today.

I think is extremely important to this coastal community to support this group in every way they can, they have shown that they can pull together and strive to make changes in the enviroment.

With that being said;

This Wed. November 12th at 10:30am this organization will holding a meeting at bingham hall, In Rumson NJ.

The topic will be LNG, "Liquid Natural Gas" A few companies are planning to "place"  not build,  Natural gas terminals "20 Miles" off the jersey coast... Twenty Miles! Will it really inpact the future of the jersey shore?  I cant imagine how it could.

These are not perminant structures, they are free floating platforms that wont effect a thing.

Taken from EXXON website:

"The receiving terminal would cost more than $1 billion (680 million) to build and be able to supply about 1.2 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day, enough for more than 5 million residential customers, to New York and New Jersey, Exxon said.

If regulators approve the terminal, it would go into operation in the middle of the next decade, Exxon said.

Many power plants built in the last decade burn natural gas, which is seen as cleaner than coal. But high natural gas prices have sent homeowners' electric bills soaring in many parts of the country and have raised concern about power supplies.

Now I am not saying that I aprove of this , but I am saying that we should learn the facts about whats  happening... before making a decision.. Again, these folks that strive for enviromental change should be commended for all they do, all I ask is get the facts before we destroy the option.

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