by Dave Lucas for WAMC Two pipeline projects that would have crossed the northeast have been scrubbed: activists are now calling for a third pipeline to be stopped. Politicians and activists have stepped up their efforts to halt Spectra energy’s proposed AIM pipeline that would be routed through the lower Hudson Valley. (View full report…
by Akiko Matsuda for LoHud FERC has denied an earlier request by the governor to stop the work. (Photo: Photo courtesy of Erik McGregor) State lawmakers sent a letter Friday to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, requesting on Earth Day that the agency stop the controversial Algonquin natural gas pipeline expansion project until an independent safety risk analysis is completed.…
by Allison Dunne for WAMC More than three dozen New York state lawmakers have signed a letter sent to a federal energy regulator. They want construction halted on a pipeline project until an independent safety risk analysis is completed. (View full report here)
by Eilis O’Neill for Deutsche Welle WorlLink A US energy company wants to expand and reroute the Algonquin pipeline, which carries shale gas across several eastern states. Fearing for her children’s safety, scientist Courtney Williams is leading the fight against it. (Listen to report here)
By Hilary Baum for The Riverdale Press When, at the end of 2014, Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared a statewide ban on the environmentally unsound practice of fracking — high-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing for natural gas — many of us breathed a sigh of relief, only to discover that New York City remains vulnerable to harm…
by Mina Hamilton / March 11th, 2016 for Dissident Voice One of the stupidest schemes on the planet has just hit a snag. The plan is for natural-gas giant, Spectra Energy, to construct a new high-pressure, 42-inch gas pipeline in the immediate vicinity of the Indian Point nuclear power plants. The pipeline would carry fracked-gas…
By Mina Hamilton for The Recorder An appeal to Kinder Morgan’s executive chairman On March 16, Tennessee Gas Pipeline, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kinder Morgan, filed suit to overturn Article 97 of the Massachusetts Constitution. Article 97 protects state park and forest land from eminent domain by any entity — unless the Legislature votes to…
By Ryan Deffenbaugh A coalition of New York environmental groups has joined a federal appeal requesting further consideration of the Algonquin natural gas pipeline. Construction has already begun on the project, which is referred to as the Algonquin Incremental Marketing Project by the company behind it, Algonquin Gas Transmission LLC, a subsidiary of Spectra Energy…
By Alison Rose Levy and Ellen Cantarow for The Nation The construction of a gas pipeline within 1500 feet of Indian Point’s nuclear reactors could spell disaster for New York. (View full report)
by Eilis O’Neill for NPR NPR National News coverage of the AIM Pipeline and yesterday’s rally. Coverage starts at 1:20. http://13523.mc.tritondigital.com/NPR_500005/media-session/ef3544f1-16b7-445e-8145-1147f446ff8f/anon.npr-mp3/npr/newscasts/2016/04/03/newscast050627.mp3?siteplayer=true&dl=1 NPR National News coverage of yesterday’s Rally. Coverage starts at 0:42. http://208.92.55.133/NPR_500005/media-session/b06358d9-d9e4-498e-b0c3-f68935a59514/anon.npr-mp3/npr/newscasts/2016/04/03/newscast230627.mp3?siteplayer=true&dl=1
by Courtney M. Williams for The Guardian, Opinion The Spectra Energy pipeline expansion has been given the go-ahead, but inadequate safeguards make me scared for my children’s health. The Keystone XL pipeline was vetoed by President Obama last year as being antithetical to the nation’s climate goals. Yet fights against pipelines continue to rage across the country…
by Sam Thielman for The Guardian Planned gas pipeline alongside Indian Point nuclear plant stirs meltdown fears. Across a narrow swath cut by bulldozers and chainsaws through the woods of Westchester County, New York, triangular yellow flags are clotheslined between pairs of trees. The flags trace the eventual path of the gas pipeline that the energy…
PR Newswire SCRANTON, Pa., March 10, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — In a landmark legal victory for residents harmed by fracking, today jurors in a federal civil suit ordered Cabot Oil and Gas, one of Pennsylvania’s largest fracking companies, to pay a total of $4.24 millionto two families in Dimock, Pennsylvania for contaminating their well water. One of the two plaintiffs, Scott Ely and family, whose well was…
By LANNING TALIAFERRO (Patch Staff) Film maker and 2010 Oscar nominee Josh Fox will show his new film and lead a discussion at Manhattanville College. (View full report)
Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC Spectra Energy’s proposed AIM (Algonquin Incremental Market) pipeline expansion poses significant environmental, health and safety risks to residents in New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Julia Walsh, Campaign Director for Frack Action, and Courtney Williams, a molecular biologist directly affected by the pipeline, talk about the expansion, and Spectra’s plan to install a massive high pressure pipeline 1500 feet…
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