Pipeline critics leave NRC session with questions unanswered

by Colleen Wilson for Westfair Online Technology problems and miscommunication impeded an effort by boisterous opponents of a natural gas pipeline project in a conference call last week with a federal agency to discuss recently released documents about the project’s approval. The call – which was difficult to hear because of a poor connection –…

Nuclear Regulatory Commission Withheld and Misrepresented Critical Information Used to Evaluate and Approve the Siting of the Spectra AIM Pipeline Alongside Indian Point

On Wednesday, July 15, 2015 at 2:30 p.m. at the Hendrick Hudson Library in Montrose, NY, at a special presentation to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Petition Review Board, nuclear expert Paul Blanch revealed that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission withheld and misrepresented critical information used to evaluate and approve the siting of the Spectra Algonquin…

Groups protest pipeline project near Indian Point

News12 Westchester PEEKSKILL – Environmental groups and families protested outside Sen. Charles Schumer’s office in Peekskill Monday over what they say is a dangerous pipeline project. The protesters are asking New York’s senior senator to denounce the AIM project, a natural gas pipeline adjacent to Indian Point. The new section of the Spectra Energy pipeline…

Approval of Natural Gas Export Terminal Debunks FERC’s Claim That Massive Pipeline Buildout Not For Export

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Contact: Susan Van Dolsen  No Pipeline Expansion (NOPE) 914-525-8886 svandolsen@gmail.com   Approval of Natural Gas Export Terminal Debunks FERC’s Claim That Massive Pipeline Buildout Not For Export   (May 29, 2015) A grassroots coalition, No Pipeline Expansion (NOPE), stated today that the Department of Energy’s (DOE) approval of Pieridae’s Goldboro liquefied…

Indian Point Opponents, Supporters Speak–and Sing–at NRC Safety Hearing

by Lanning Taliaferro for The Patch Supporters and opponents of the Indian Point nuclear power plants spoke at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s annual safety hearing on Indian Point, held May 20 in Tarrytown… Among them were opponents of the Algonquin natural gas pipeline expansion project. That’s who the singing came from. The pipeline runs next…

400 turn out for NRC’s upbeat Indian Point report

by Ernie Garcia for LoHud About 400 people attended a Wednesday night meeting to hear federal officials give an upbeat assessment of the Indian Point nuclear power plant’s safety record in 2014… But concerns about the May 9 fire at the Indian Point nuclear plant and the approved expansion of a high-pressure natural gas pipeline…

Critical NRC meeting in Tarrytown Wednesday, May 20, 2015, 7 pm

MEDIA ALERT Contacts:  Paul Blanch, nuclear expert, 860-922-3119 Suzannah Glidden, 914-234-6470, Co-founder, Stop the Algonquin Pipeline Expansion (SAPE) and Treasurer, Community Watersheds Clean Water Coalition Ellen Weininger, 646-210-0200, Co-founder SAPE and Director, Educational Outreach, Grassroots Environmental Education FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Public Outcry and Revealing Information at NRC Annual Meeting  Regarding FERC’s Approval of Spectra’s Massive Algonquin…

Let’s not build a gas pipeline near a nuclear reactor

by David Cay Johnson for Al Jezeera America- Opinion Our federal government says that it’s safe to build a giant high-pressure natural gas pipeline 105 feet from the Indian Point nuclear power plant complex along the Hudson River near New York City. But its reasons for making that judgment are secret. How this decision was…

Indian Point Fire Raises Huge Concerns Over Siting of Spectra Pipeline

by Ellen Weininger for EcoWatch The recent transformer fire at the aging Indian Point nuclear power facility in Buchanan, New York in Westchester County just 30 miles north of New York City, garnered wide coverage in the global media including a visit to the site by New York’s Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Throughout the coverage, there was little mention…

Reisman: Gas pipeline. Indian Point. Why tempt fate?

by Phil Reisman for LoHud Opinion The Indian Point nuclear power complex in Buchanan is the 2,045-megawatt elephant in our backyard. Because we are human and have a built-in defense mechanism that prevents us from dwelling too heavily on negative things, we tend to ignore the heaving beast… Last weekend, Indian Point returned to the…

Did We Almost Lose New York?

by Harvey Wasserman for EcoWatch At Indian Point, “non nuclear” gas pipelines flow dangerously close to highly vulnerable reactors. In an utterly insane proposal that almost defies description, corporate powers want to run another gas pipeline more than 40 inches in diameter within a scant few yards of the reactor epicenters. An explosion that could…

Pipeline Should Be Scrapped After Indian Point Incident, Puglisi Says

Daily Voice WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. — Cortlandt Town Supervisor Linda Puglisi said the Spectra Energy gas pipeline should not proceed as planned since it will pass so close to Indian Point Energy Center, the power plant where a transformer fire occurred Saturday. “The incident is another reason why the recently approved Spectra natural gas line by the Federal…

Protest at FERC Scoping Session: FERC is a ‘Rubber Stamp Machine’

by Susan Rubin, Letter to the Editor of The Patch I was one of many voices last night that disrupted a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) public “scoping session” with a singalong at the Yorktown Community and Cultural Center Sung to the tune of the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine. We sang loudly and passionately about FERC…