there's a new sense of urgency in the fight against a proposed South Jersey liquefied natural gas terminal it's a facility that would ship highly flammable LNG produced in Pennsylvania around the world by way of train cars carrying the liquid gas through South Jersey communities well students and Community leaders staged a rally in Camden Tuesday evening pressuring the city council to oppose the project slated for Gibbstown arguing the effects of a derailment like the one in Ohio last month would be far more catastrophic here on top of adding more daily toxic emissions to one of the poorest and most polluted cities in the country Ted Goldberg reports it's unnecessary we have more gas now than we need James Stewart lives in National Park about five miles from the former Dupont rapano site in Gibbstown he joined protesters at Camden City Hall arguing against a proposed project that would convert that site into an export terminal for liquefied natural gas they want Camden to become the 19th municipality to pass a resolution opposing the project the only thing you're going to do there is export LNG to foreign countries it's no benefit to New Jersey no benefit to the U.S it's only for profits of the oil Industries you can't serve two masters there is no benefit to the people of Camden and the residents of Camden counties to this truck these trucks and these Rail lines coming through with these dangerous materials we come to school to learn and to grow not have our health and safety threatened by an unnecessary fossil fuel export scheme The Proposal from new Fortress energy would bring LNG to Gibbstown by truck and by train it still needs local and state approval which might be more difficult to get after a Train derailed in rural Ohio last month releasing toxic chemicals into the environment the Gibbstown local Financial gas export terminal proposes to bring liquefied natural gas which is liquid methane which is much more volatile and dangerous than the substance that was derailed in East Palestine Ohio this would destroy the school's infrastructure pollute our air and water supply and catastrophically interrupt our learning Palestine was an area of maybe 30 40 50 people in the five mile radius you got almost a million people it would be a disaster of Untold proportions we don't need it we don't want it and we're asking our elected representatives to choose ye this day whom ye shall serve you will you serve the people on the ages of the people or will you serve money as has been the tradition in Camden County for too long these protesters are calling on the Biden Administration including Transportation secretary Pete butterjudge to get rid of the Trump error rule that allows LNG to be moved by rail some representatives in Pennsylvania have made that demand and congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman tells us she would support that ban the State's Department of Environmental Protection has granted permits to build new railroad tracks on the site the first of many approvals needed to open up shop protesters hope the slow process to full approval can be stopped if they keep pressure in Governor Murphy his Department of Environmental Protection has continuously sent us the opposite message that they are not in strong opposition to this project and they actually have voted for a second for permits for a second DOC for the product so we're you know the words are great but we you want action from Murphy Governor Murphy has opposed the Gibbstown project for years in response to our request for comment his office says due to the safety and public health risks posed by the transportation and storage of liquefied natural gas Governor Murphy remains opposed to both rail transport of LNG and the use of the Gibbstown facility as an LNG terminal in Camden I'm Ted Goldberg NJ Spotlight news [Music] thank you