FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Media Contact: Susan Rubin drsusanrubin@gmail.com (914) 844 3776 Citizens Express Outrage at FERC by Raising Voices in Song (Yorktown, NY) May 11, 2015 Residents of Westchester, Rockland and Putnam interrupted a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) public “scoping session” with a singalong at 6:45 p.m. tonight at the Yorktown Community…
by Assemblywoman Sandy Galef, Letter to the Editor of the Yonkers Tribune ALBANY, NY – May 11, 2015 — This Saturday’s transformer fire at the Indian Point Energy Center is a reminder that we must be extremely vigilant with safety protections and oversight at this facility. Over the past few months, I have actively opposed the siting of the 42″ high…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Susan Van Dolsen svandolsen@gmail.com 914-525-8886 http://www.sape2016.org (Cortlandt, NY), May 11, 2015 A transformer fire at the Indian Point nuclear facility garnered wide coverage in the global media this weekend, including a visit to the site by Governor Cuomo, but throughout the coverage, there was no mention of Spectra Energy’s proposed…
Record Online With energy companies seeking to move gas from a hydrofracking boom in Pennsylvania to the Northeast for sale and potential export, opponents of the expanding network of natural gas pipelines went to Albany on April 27 to warn that chronic pollution leaks from the pipes would threaten public health. (View full report here)
By Brian Nearing for The Times Union With a web of new and expanded natural gas pipelines on the drawing board in the state, as energy companies seek to move gas from a hydrofracking boom in Pennsylvania to the Northeast for sale and potential export, opponents warned Monday that chronic pollution leaks from the pipes…
by Elana Schor and Andrew Restuccia for Politico After a series of deadly accidents, Congress created an office to oversee the nation’s oil and gas pipelines. A decade later, it’s become the can’t-do agency. (View full report here)
By LANNING TALIAFERRO (Patch Staff) Local residents joined advocates and officials from across New York in Albany yesterday to urge state officials to employ a consistent policy evaluating health impacts of the full lifecycle process of shale gas development. Amid growing scientific evidence of potential risks, they requested that Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the departments of Environmental…
by Ellen Cantarow for Huffington Post A very large gas pipeline will soon skirt the Indian Point Energy Center (IPEC), an aging nuclear power plant that stands in the town of Cortlandt in Westchester County, New York, 30 miles north of Manhattan. The federal agencies that have permitted the project have bowed to two corporations…
by AllGov.com Two New York pipelines, one near a nuclear plant, the other terminating in the basement of a museum, have caused concern about the possibility of an accident. Thirty miles north of Manhattan, a proposed gas pipeline would run near the Indian Point Energy Center (IPEC), a nuclear power plant in operation since 1973. If that…
By Ellen Cantarow, Truthout A very large gas pipeline will soon skirt the Indian Point Energy Center (IPEC), an aging nuclear power plant that stands in the town of Cortlandt in Westchester County, New York, 30 miles north of Manhattan. The federal agencies that have permitted the project have bowed to two corporations – the…
by Colleen Wilson for Westfair Communications Lawmakers, grassroots organizations, towns in multiple states and individuals have in the last few weeks called on a federal agency to reconsider its approval of a natural gas pipeline expansion project and are seeking a rehearing in order to halt construction and re-evaluate legal and safety concerns. The surge…
by Ernie Garcia for The Journal News New York’s two senators have joined the chorus calling on a federal agency to retract its approval of the Algonquin pipeline expansion. Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, along with Rep. Nita Lowey, signed a joint letter Friday asking the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to rescind its March…
by Jim Barg for The Daily Voice CORTLANDT, N.Y. — A coalition of groups in Westchester, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island have joined forces to try to stop expansion of Spectra Energy’s Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) The coalition includes Better Future Project and West Roxbury Saves Energy (WRSE), both based in Massachusetts; Capitalism v. the…
by Allison Dunne for WAMC Northeast Public Radio New York’s two U.S. senators and a Hudson Valley congresswoman have penned a letter to a federal agency, asking for a rehearing concerning a pipeline expansion project. Local elected officials have been filing similar letters. (View full report here)
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