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…
by John Dyer for VICE News Experts are claiming that a massive natural gas pipeline being constructed next to a major nuclear power plant in New York could cause a meltdown just 40 miles north of Manhattan. The company Spectra Energy has started construction on a 42-inch-diameter pipeline that will pass only 105 feet from the 1970s-era Indian Point nuclear…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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