Please join the Sierra Club: Rio Grande Chapter in making signs and having a small rally outside the Army Corps of Engineers office, 4101 Jefferson Plz NE, Albuquerque
Participants will deliver a letter asking that they stop improperly using Nationwide Permit 12 – an expedited process that has been used to approve pipeline projects. The fast track process allows the Army Corps to ignore the environmental impact of projects while also disallowing public participation such as not giving public notice when a project is approved or even when construction begins neighbors are not notified. The public is only able to weigh in on Permit 12 projects every 5 years!
Advocates started to dive in and learn more about the horrible misuse of Nationwide Permit 12 while working against the Saguaro Pipeline (a proposed 48 inch thick gas pipeline from the Permian Basin under the Rio Grande River into Mexico ultimately destined for export to China). Nationwide Permit 12 has been used to fast track major pipelines such as DAPL, Mountain Valley Pipeline, and Keystone XL. Please join us in asking Army Corps to change course and stop misusing Nationwide Permit 12.