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ASK SOUTHERN COMPANY TO MEASURE THE DAM METHANE!
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Feel free to use this sample message or write one of your own. Please be respectful and stick to this topic: We want Southern Company to measure the methane emissions from their dams and begin actively reducing the emissions from its reservoirs. NOTE: You do not have to include the "Dear Southern Company" part, or a closing. This form automatically fills that in for you!
Dear Southern Company Board:
As part of your initiative to reach net zero carbon emissions, Southern Company must take a scientifically-informed approach to the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from its hydropower reservoirs. No longer can the company pretend these energy sources are emissions-free and continue to label them "zero-carbon" as the company is currently doing in its "Implementation and Action Toward Net Zero" report.
As ratepayers, shareholders, and stakeholders who are impacted by the company's emissions, we are calling on Southern Company to analyze the net GHG footprints of all of its hydropower dams and reservoirs using the G-res Tool created by the International Hydropower Association and to publicly report the results and underlying data. Southern Company must start by quantifying the scope of this problem with data.
Beyond modeling reservoir emissions, Southern Company must invest in technologies to monitor methane emissions from reservoirs and begin actively reducing the emissions from its reservoirs. We demand that Southern Company begin exploring mitigation options to reduce reservoir emissions, such as improving dissolved oxygen levels, reducing nutrient pollution into reservoirs, and adding dam intakes to pull water from well-oxygenated areas of reservoirs.
Until Southern Company can prove with data that its hydropower facilities and reservoirs are, in fact, not emitting GHGs, the company must discontinue labeling its hydropower as “emissions-free” or “zero-carbon.” Thank you for your time and attention, and for acting on this issue.
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Feel free to use this sample message or write one of your own. Please be respectful and stick to this topic: We want Southern Company to measure the methane emissions from their dams and begin actively reducing the emissions from its reservoirs. NOTE: You do not have to include the "Dear Southern Company" part, or a closing. This form automatically fills that in for you!
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Dear Southern Company Board of Directors:
As part of your initiative to reach net zero carbon emissions, Southern Company must take a scientifically-informed approach to the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from its hydropower reservoirs. No longer can the company pretend these energy sources are emissions-free and continue to label them "zero-carbon" as the company is currently doing in its "Implementation and Action Toward Net Zero" report.
As ratepayers, shareholders, and stakeholders who are impacted by the company's emissions, we are calling on Southern Company to analyze the net GHG footprints of all of its hydropower dams and reservoirs using the G-res Tool created by the International Hydropower Association and to publicly report the results and underlying data. Better data leads to better decision-making, and Southern Company must start by quantifying the scope of this problem with data.
Beyond measuring and monitoring, Southern Company must begin actively reducing the emissions from its reservoirs. Increasing dissolved oxygen levels in reservoirs, adding dam intakes above a reservoir’s thermocline, changing operational patterns, reducing nutrient pollution into reservoirs, and capturing methane for use as energy are all possible solutions to reduce hydropower reservoir emissions. We demand that Southern Company begin exploring these and other mitigation options and discontinue labeling its hydropower as “emissions-free” or “zero-carbon.”