By TIM FAULKNER/ecoRI News staff Rhode Island is playing a part in a recent legal challenge to a $1 billion natural-gas pipeline expansion that would run through southern New England. Fossil Free RI is one of nine anti-pipeline groups, two municipalities and several politicians to file formal requests for a court hearing to vacate the…
by Ernie Garcia for The Journal News A group of activists and elected officials are asking a federal regulator to reconsider its approval of the Algonquin pipeline expansion. In multiple petitions filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Thursday the applicants argued that FERC’s March 3 approval of a natural gas pipeline expansion running through…
By LANNING TALIAFERRO (Patch Staff) Individuals, grassroots groups and towns from New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts have formed a coalition to file a Request for Rehearing in response to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s approval of the first phase of Spectra Energy’s expansion program. (View full report here)
Carole Griffiths Community View for The Journal News Blue Mountain Reservation is a 1,538-acre county-run park in the northwest section of Westchester County. It features miles of trails and offers challenging hikes to the tops of two large peaks, Mt. Spitzenberg and Blue Mountain. The park is used heavily by the public. There is also…
MEDIA RELEASE March 20, 2015 Despite serious safety and security issues, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued approval for Spectra Energy’s Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) Project on March 3, 2015. Spectra’s project includes the installation of a massive 42-inch diameter high-pressure pipeline 105 feet from vital structures at the Indian Point nuclear facility, in…
A discussion of the risks of siting a new segment of Spectra’s Algonquin pipeline adjacent to Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant. SAPE co-founder Susan VanDolsen discusses the issue with Connect the Dots host Alison Rose Levy. This situation epitomizes the problems with our current energy infrastructure oversight. Federal agencies are shirking their responsibilities and allowing…
Transcript of Proceedings: Nuclear Regulatory Commission regarding the risk assessment for the Algonquin Pipeline running adjacent to Indian Point (Download PDF of full transcript here)
By Lanning Taliaferro (Patch Staff) Residents from Rockland, Putnam, and Westchester Counties conducted a die-in at Spectra’s Atlantic Bridge Open House last night in Yorktown. They were protesting the expansion of the Algonquin Pipeline through New York and New England. In particular they object to the segmentation of the expansion into three projects. The Federal Energy Regulatory…
by Colleen Wilson, Westfair Online In the last month, Spectra Energy Partners LP has moved forward in the federal processes for two different projects on the Algonquin Gas Transmission line. Spectra intends to modify its natural gas pipeline in four states, including New York and Connecticut. It plans to replace sections of the pipeline with…
By TIM FAULKER/ecoRI News staff PROVIDENCE — The banner held by climate activists outside the Statehouse on March 6 read: “Expect Resistance.” And it might be a sign of things to come. (View full report here)
by Brian Marschhauser for Your Yorktown The much-debated expansion of the Algonquin natural gas pipeline, which currently runs beneath Yorktown and other municipalities in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts, was approved last week by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). (View full report here)
by Ernie Garcia for The Journal News The Algonquin gas pipeline is proposing larger pipes in the Lower Hudson Valley. Spectra Energy’s Atlantic Bridge Project would expand the delivery of natural gas to New England and Canada (View full report here)
By Julie M. Cohen for Wicked Local State and Boston officials were upset, but not surprised, that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) recently authorized Spectra Energy to move forward with the Algonquin Incremental Market Project (AIM) that includes West Roxbury Lateral, 4.1 miles of the gas pipeline that run through Westwood, Dedham and West Roxbury.…
by Rick Pezzullo for The Northern Westchester Examiner Local elected officials criticized the federal government for approving the expansion of the Algonquin Pipeline project that will run through Cortlandt, Peekskill and portions of Yorktown. Cortlandt Supervisor Linda Puglisi said she was “angry” that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) ignored virtually all of the concerns…
by Ernie Garcia for The Journal News The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued an order Tuesday issuing a certificate for Spectra Energy’s Algonquin Incremental Market Project stretching from New York through Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. (View full report here)
Stop the Algonquin Pipeline Expansion (SAPE) 