Letter sent to Administration calling for no federal funding for disastrous Delaware River project
Letter sent to President Obama urging the Administration to ensure that the environmentally destructive and economically wasteful Delaware River Deepening Project does not receive federal funding is available through a link on this page.
This project,which would use scarce tax dollars to deepen 102 miles of the Delaware River’s navigation channel, will destroy ecologically and environmentally important resources while failing to provide a sound economic return for the taxpayers’ investment.
The project is being challenged in the Courts by the State of New Jersey and five local, regional and national environmental organizations for violating state and federal laws, and for ignoring the rights of the States to protect their waters and sovereign lands. The project does not come close to meeting your administration’s minimum criteria of returning $2.50 for each dollar invested to ensure that tax dollars are spent only on projects that will generate clear economic value to the country.
CWN and a number of state and national groups signed the letter that was drafted and circulated by the Delaware Riverkeeper.
News Type:
Policy
Region/State:
Delaware
Issue:
Funding