WHITE PLAINS, NY – Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (Westchester/Rockland), the Ranking Member on the House Appropriations Committee, today released the following statement on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) decision to approve the Algonquin Incremental Market Expansion (AIM) project: “I am disappointed in FERC’s decision to approve the Algonquin Incremental Market Expansion (AIM) project. This decision…

by Steve Smith, Hartford Courant The opposition to the expansion of the Algonquin Natural Gas Pipeline, managed by Spectra Energy, Inc., is growing, as the proposed upgrades to the pipeline become more imminent. Those opposed to the pipeline cite the fact that pipelines leak and sometimes even explode. (View full report here)

by Bill Meyer, chair of the Sierra Club Lower Hudson Group, in LoHud The Cuomo administration’s decision to ban fracking has received much support. But the Spectra pipeline project would transport fracked gas, presenting several potential dangers. (View full report here)

by Alesha Hanson, Danbury Daily Voice DANBURY, Conn. — The Connecticut Chapter of the Sierra Club, Food and Water Watch, 350CT, and the Greater Danbury Council of MoveOn.org are hosting a Fracked Gas Pipeline Educational Forum on Monday, Feb. 2, at 5:30 p.m. at the Danbury Library. The event is free and open to the public. It is scheduled to last until…

By Lanning Taliaferro (Patch Staff) Cortlandt town officials posted the text of Supervisor Linda Puglisi’s remarks at the New York state Department of Environmental Conservation hearing on permits needed by Spectra Energy to commence its Algonquin Incremental Market projec. AIM would expand a few sections of its long pipeline from Pennsylvania to New England through Rockland,…

by Jack Newsham, Boston Globe Massachusetts Senators Elizabeth Warren and Edward Markey sent a letter to a federal energy regulator Thursday warning of “serious consequences” if a controversial pipeline project were speedily approved. The senators’ letter, which also was signed by US Representative Stephen Lynch of South Boston, comes on the heels of another letter…

from the Rachel Maddow Show Rachel Maddow reports on the shocking lack of pipeline inspectors in North Dakota after a new, uninspected pipe has spilled a record-setting 3 million gallons of toxic saltwater byproduct, just one of several recent pipeline ruptures. (View full report here)

by Scott Waldman for Capital New York ALBANY—A key decision over two proposed pipelines that would bring natural gas from the Marcellus shale in other states through New York now rests with the state Department of Environmental Conservation. That means both the Algonquin pipeline in the lower Hudson Valley and the Constitution pipeline in the…

James Root in New Times Danbury has everything to lose and almost nothing to gain from the proposed Spectra/Alquonquin pipeline project that would involve disruptive and damaging construction from the New York border to Clapboard Ridge Road. For this reason, the city of Danbury and the Boughton administration need to engage Spectra and the state’s Department of…

by Westfair Communications A meme posted to the Facebook page of a local activist group shows Homer Simpson with his hands to his head and his eyes wide as he looks down at the controls of a nuclear power plant. “D’oh!” the meme says up top. Below, it continues, “Indian Point & Spectra AIM Project – What could…