Sanders NJ Rallies Provide A Great Opportunity To Contrast Clinton Climate Policy And Shine a National Media Light On Christie Pipelines and Power Plants

Hillary Clinton’s Pro-Gas Policy Is Just Like Gov. Christie’s

Sanders Should Be Asked To Oppose PennEast & Pinelands Pipelines & BL England Plant

Bernie Sanders is holding rallies on Sunday at Rutgers and on Monday in Atlantic City in advance on NJ’s June 7 Democratic primary.

These campaign events provide an excellent opportunity for NJ’s climate, anti-fracking, and anti-pipeline activists to get controversial NJ fossil infrastructure projects being developed under Governor Christie’s climate denying pro-gas Energy Master Plan in the national debate.

Sanders can speak to Superstorm Sandy as an example of the implications of climate change.

Sanders can link Clinton’s climate and energy policies as very similar to those of the deeply unpopular Gov. Christie.

The Sunday Rutgers event is close to ground zero of the highly controversial PennEast and Pilgrim pipeline battles.

The Monday Atlantic City event is in the backyard of activists fighting the Southern Reliability Link Pinelands pipeline and the South Jersey Gas Pinelands pipeline to the BL England power plant.

Bernie Sander’s “People Before Polluters” climate policy is in sharp contrast to Hillary Clinton’s.

The controversial proposed NJ pipelines and natural gas plants perfectly illustrate that contrast.

Sanders supports a ban on fracking, while Clinton cravenly used her State Department power to promote fracking around the world to benefit her corporate energy backers.

Clinton’s promotion of fracking as a strategic weapon against the Russian economy reveals how her Cold War dominated hawkish worldview always trumps rational policy and US domestic interests.

Sanders often speaks of how the system is rigged and how corporate interests have corrupted and bought government to advance their profits and not the interests of the people.

Governor Christie’s appointments of former corporate energy lobbyists and consultants to head the BPU and the DEP that rubber stamp approvals of pipelines and fossil power plants are right in Sanders’ wheelhouse.

I hope NJ’s climate, anti-fracking and anti-pipeline activists already have reached out to and briefed the Sanders people on all this so he is prepared to comment to the media and make this an issue in his speeches.

And let’s hope folks get out and attend these events in numbers, with lots of signs that name all the fracking pipelines for the national media and Sanders people to see.