By Ellen Cantarow, Truthout Since 2011 I’ve been writing about the impacts of high-volume hydraulic fracturing in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and about New York, where a powerful grassroots movement has made the state ground zero for barring drilling within town borders. But while some of my interviewees have become friends, I always used to feel…

By Liz Schevtchuk Armstrong Citing fears of a disaster involving the Indian Point nuclear power plant, air pollution, and new emergency-response burdens, the Putnam County Legislature Tuesday night (May 6) called for a moratorium on expanding a controversial interstate natural gas pipeline until its impacts can be reviewed and serious hazards addressed. Read the full…

(Carmel, NY) Stop the Algonquin Pipeline Expansion (www.sape2016.org) is pleased to announce that a resolution passed the Putnam County Legislature by a vote of 8-1 on May 6, 2014. The resolution is a recognition by Putnam legislators that there are many unresolved questions and concerns regarding the Spectra Energy Partners Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) Project,…

By Janine Bowen – www.theexaminernews.com The Putnam County Legislature is considering imposing a moratorium on the proposed expansion of the Algonquin Pipeline. The expansion by Algonquin Gas Transmission LLC, which is a subsidiary of Spectra Energy Partners LP, aims to add a 42-inch pipeline to three existing pipelines under the Hudson River. One compressor station that…

By Janine Bowen – www.theexaminernews.com The Putnam County Legislature is considering imposing a moratorium on the proposed expansion of the Algonquin Pipeline. Read the full article

By Rick Pezzullo …Two separate projects proposed on a 100-acre former quarry site in Verplanck involving a gas transmission line and a high voltage converter station have officials and residents in Cortlandt fired up. Read the full article

By Marian H. Rose The Algonquin Incremental Market project is a plan by Spectra Energy to convey an additional 300 million cubic feet of natural gas per day through Rockland, Westchester and Putnam counties to “various Algonquin … delivery points in Connecticut and Massachusetts.” Read the full article

No Pipe Dream By Ellen Cantarow For the past several years, I’ve been writing about what happens when big oil and gas corporations drill where people live. “Fracking” — high-volume hydraulic fracturing, which extracts oil and methane from deep shale — has become my beat. My interviewees live in Pennsylvania’s shale-gas fields; among Wisconsin’s hills,…

The possible widening of the regional Algonquin Pipeline in the next few years, which would transmit more shale gas to Northeast customers, prompted a forum at Mahopac Public Library earlier this month where dozens of locals got a better understanding of Spectra Energy Corporation’s plans and gave them an opportunity to express concerns over what…

I went to a public meeting in Mahopac last week. Today the word “enormity” occurred to me. I’m always surprised by this word seems like it should mean the quality of being very big, like Jupiter. But enormity primarily means “an outrageous, improper, vicious, or immoral act.

A proposal to expand the Algonquin natural gas pipeline was described as a threat to the health and safety of residents during a meeting organized by over 50 groups that opposed the project on Dec. 11 at the Hendrick Hudson Free Library in Montrose.

More communities are discovering that risks are not confined to faraway rural well pads where the gas is fracked.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 10, 2013 Contact:  info@sape2016.org or 914-525-8886  (Montrose, NY) Over fifty groups from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Massachusetts are joining the grassroots organization, Stop the Algonquin Pipeline Expansion (SAPE), in cosponsoring two critically important educational forums this week.  The first event will be held at Hendrick Hudson Library, 185…

BUCHANAN, N.Y.- Officials representing the natural gas pipeline and the high voltage power line which are both slated to be installed near Entergy’s Indian Point Energy center have met, but neither will be altering their plans.