Thread by @ssteingraber1

THREAD

To the world’s #climatejustice community and the journalists who cover climate:

There is an amazing, fast-moving story we all should follow right now. German anti-#fracking activist @GheorghiuAndy is being legally threatened by an #LNG developer in Canada for signing...

...an open letter to elected officials warning about the instabilities of the company as it seeks financing for an #LNG export operation in Nova Scotia.

The name of the company is Pieridae and the name of the proposed LNG facility is Goldboro.

https://twitter.com/tim_bousquet/status/1373272330579902465

Pieridae’s lawyer is claiming the signatories of the letter have...damaged the company?... by revealing financial data from a leaked document in the form of a PowerPoint presentation. thereby letting the public know the company was asking for nearly $1 billion in public money.

Except apparently a newspaper already reported that?

https://twitter.com/tim_bousquet/status/1373273343978258438

Among other things, Pieridae’s demand of Andy is that “you immediately notify me as Pieridae’s legal counsel of (a) the identity of each individual from whom you received the Confidential Information and circumstances under which you received that information and...”

“... b) the identity of each individual to whom you have disclosed the Confidential Information and the circumstances under which you disclosed that information;”

This is outrageous bullying of one of our finest and most effective climate activists. We need to call this intimidation out, provide solidarity to @GheorghiuAndy, and shine an investigative light on the situation.

Here is the original letter that Andy signed:

https://twitter.com/GheorghiuAndy/status/1372922821857439744

Here is the leaked PowerPoint presentation:

https://twitter.com/tim_bousquet/status/1373273555056668677?s=21

https://twitter.com/tim_bousquet/status/1373273555056668677

And here is a list of people that I would like to alert about this story:
@Will_Bunch
@emorwee
@NaomiOreskes
@billmckibben
@NaomiAKlein
@amywestervelt
@ElizKolbert
@joshfoxfilm

Also! There is a link between Nova Scotia’s Goldsboro LNG plant and the accident-riddled Enbridge compressor station in Weymouth MA about which @FERC may be (maybe?) having second thoughts. I’ll let others connect those particular dots. @nathanpboston

And @GheorghiuAndy, please correct any mistakes I might have made here in outlining the broad strokes of this fast-moving story and let us know how we can collectively push back on your behalf.

Power to the people.