#OffFossilFuels

We’ve put together a statewide campaign with environmental allies to push Governor Cuomo to stop all fossil fuel infrastructure projects in the state and move rapidly to 100% renewable energy. The campaign launched in mid-November of 2017 with 13 protests in one week across the State, generating media coverage across the state. We got the fossil fuel industry’s attention, too, with one of their trade newsletters writing:

“The opposition has stepped-up its efforts. National, state and local environmental groups banded together earlier this month for a “week of action.” Demonstrations and press conferences were held to oppose gas projects in all corners of the state, from a power plant under construction in Orange County and a long-delayed propane storage project in Schuyler County, to a proposed micro-grid in Albany and a pipeline expansion to feed growing demand in New York City.”

Alongside our allies statewide and in the directly-affected communities, we’re opposing projects including the proposed Williams fracked gas pipeline off the Rockaways, the large fracked gas CPV and Cricket Valley power plants, and the Governor’s plan to run the Empire State Plaza and Capitol complex with a fracked gas plant in a community of color. These projects, if built, will massively raise the state’s climate pollution, and lock us into decades of burning more climate-heating fracked gas and oil.

Our campaign is now organizing call-in days to the Governor every Monday, with between 200 and 600 calls places by activists each Monday. We organized hundreds of protesters to picket two of Governor Cuomo’s high dollar fundraisers and a protest outside the corruption trial of Cuomo’s top staffer, Joe Percoco, who is accused of taking bribes from the gas plant developer behind the CPV power plant. On April 23rd, 2018, we’re organizing a large march, rally and civil disobedience event that will shut down parts of the state capital to push Cuomo. We hope it will be the largest climate change demonstration ever in Albany.