U.S (RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK) : Sign this petition before October !

 

Community members impacted by Rio Grande LNG take to NYC Japanese Megabank MUFG is climbing the ranks as one of the world’s worst funders of fossil fuels. In 2023, they were the 2nd largest financier of toxic and volatile methane gas (aka LNG), pouring over $8 BILLION into the fastest-growing fossil fuel sector. One of the projects they’re financing is Rio Grande LNG, a planned methane gas export terminal near Brownsville, Texas. Rio Grande LNG is being built WITHOUT the consent of Indigenous and local communities. In fact, frontline leaders from the Rio Grande Valley are headed to Japan next month to meet with MUFG about exactly this, and YOU can help Sign the petition demanding MUFG back away from Rio Grande LNG before this project moves forward. Sign the petition! From every angle, Rio Grande LNG will be a disaster. It will further pollute primarily Latine and Indigenous communities already facing the brunt of climate chaos and severe health impacts from fossil fuels. It will pave over wetlands and destroy wildlife habitats. It even has a more severe explosion risk than other methane projects because it’s just 6 miles away from SpaceX — which has already exploded. The shockwaves were felt across the community and debris landed on the proposed Rio Grande LNG site. LNG expansion in the Rio Grande Valley is reckless environmental racism and detrimental to our shared climate. The climate, health and safety impacts are so glaringly bad, that several other banks have dropped the project altogether and even publicly denounced it. Demand MUFG listen to the outcries against it and back out of Rio Grande LNG. Tell MUFG to stay out of the Rio Grande Valley! Roishetta Ozane speaks at the Financing the Future parliamentary forum during Climate Week, photo by Erik McGregor It’s New York Climate Week, and we’re joining partners to create a roadmap showing which policies banks need to shift in order to support a clean energy future. Even if you’re not here in NYC or in Japan next month, you can help us make that vision a reality by demanding MUFG to back away from Rio Grande LNG — and all methane. Frontline leaders, influential parliamentarians, UN officials and fossil finance experts from across the world will be coming together this week to amplify the urgent call to shift finance away from fossil fuels and toward a just, clean energy future, and hold Wall Street accountable for funding climate chaos. We need you to add your voice Send MUFG our shared message! Community organizing and collective action have led to five banks refusing to finance Rio Grande LNG AND Chubb Insurance dropping their insurance coverage for it earlier this year. We can still stop this project, but we need to act fast, and we need your help. These are the moments that are especially impactful. By signing this petition, you're directly supporting the individuals who are threatened by this methane export terminal, by showing MUFG how many people are watching them and what their financing is doing to these communities. They need to see how many people are demanding that they respect Indigenous sovereignty and human rights, and protect our shared climate. For people and planet,

Ruth Breech Senior Campaigner, Climate & Energy Rainforest Action Network

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