"Any alterations to FERC's review process would be the result of legislative changes by Congress or by a rulemaking by the Commission. The Commission has not implemented any rulemakings with regard to its review process," said FERC's Tamara Allen-Young.
FERC isn't in the business of change. Its business is "reliability," keeping the electrical grid flowing to supply millions of Americans with as much energy as they want. It's usually referred to as "keeping the lights on."
Over-consumption is a "compulsory habit we don't even think about," said hunger striker Clarke Herbert, 66, a retired teacher from Ohio. "We have to change our thinking about energy and the way we live our lives."
Fasters are giving up "conveniences and routines" as well as food, explained Jerome Wagoner. "It has actually made me question my habits of eating, why do I eat as much as I do and would I get away with one meal a day?" He intends to become a vegetarian after he ends his fast.
A very solid scientific consensus indicates that we are
presently witnessing a disturbing warming of the climatic system. ... A
number of scientific studies indicate that most global warming in recent
decades is due to the great concentration of greenhouse gases (carbon
dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxides and others) released mainly as a
result of human activity. - Encyclical Letter Laudato Si' of the Holy Father Francis
Charles Strickler admits to being a climate denier previously, but that changed after he and his wife volunteered in Biloxi for Katrina relief in 2008. "All of the climate denier scientists were being paid by the fossil fuel industry," he said.
"Dreaming of a world free of fracking," reads the white board in front of the FERC fast. It seems appropriate on the eve of the Pope's visit to choose the civil disobedience tactic which overlaps with religious and spiritual purifying rituals.
"Yet all is not lost," reads another passage of Laudato Si'. "Human beings, while capable of the worst, are also capable of rising above themselves, choosing again what is good, and making a new start."
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