by Ernie Garcia for LoHud Riverkeeper has joined calls for an independent study to assess the risk to the Indian Point nuclear power plant from the Algonquin pipeline expansion. In a Jan. 16 letter the Ossining-based environmental group said a safety evaluation prepared by Entergy, the company that operates Indian Point, didn’t adequately account for the effects…

by Mike Spillane for LoHud BREWSTER – Whose side are you on, red or orange? Wednesday night those colors helped differentiate the two main factions in the debate over the proposed Algonquin pipeline expansion, an issue that brought residents from around the region to Brewster for a public hearing. (View full report here)

by Katherine R. Eiseman for CommonWealth Magazine LAST WINTER’S NATURAL gas price spikes, and resultant electric rate hikes, continue to be used to justify the push for massive expansion of gas infrastructure. Yet a successful program to incentivize New England’s power generators to contract for back-up fuel for this winter undermines the argument for more pipelines.…

By Lanning Taliaferro (Patch Staff) The federal regulatory commission quotes Cortlandt’s consultant on the first of Spectra’s three gas pipeline expansion projects. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission cited Cortlandt town’s consultant in a series of questions it sent on Jan. 16 to Spectra Energy, the company that is seeking approval of its Algonquin Incremental Market project…

from MidHudson News WHITE PLAINS – A proposal to replace a natural gas pipeline with a larger one could have negative environmental effects on the flora and fauna in Westchester County’s Blue Mountain Reservation in the Town of Cortlandt. Hudsonia’s Dr. Erik Kiviat presented the findings of his independent report to Westchester lawmakers on Wednesday.…

by Ernie Garcia for LoHud Westchester County officials should ask for surveys of bats, wetlands and amphibians along the route of a natural gas pipeline proposed for expansion. Those were some of the suggestions made by representatives of the nonprofit Hudsonia institute, who delivered a report to Westchester County officials Wednesday on the biodiversity near the Algonquin pipeline right of…

By Lanning Taliaferro (Patch Staff) The Westchester County Board of Legislators’ Labor, Parks, Planning & Housing Committee will meet at 9:15 a.m. Jan. 14 to receive and discuss a new, independent environmental assessment of potential impacts to Blue Mountain Reservation from the proposed expansion of the current Spectra gas pipeline easement. Dr. Erik Kiviat from the…

By Mark Lungariello for Westfair Online Residents will have two chances this month to comment on a plan that would expand a natural gas pipeline running through the region, even as ultimate approval seems imminent. The state Department of Environmental Conservation will hold public hearings in Southeast and Brewster on Jan. 21 and 22, respectively,…

by Ernie Garcia, Poughkeepsie Journal The state Department of Environmental Conservation has set hearings on the Algonquin pipeline expansion in Brewster and Stony Point. The state agency set the Jan. 21 and 22 hearings to receive public comments on Spectra Energy’s permit applications for the expansion of a pipeline that transmits Appalachian-basin natural gas through…

By Shezad Baloch, Express Tribune DERA BUGTI: A 24-inch gas pipeline was blown up in the Dera Bugti district of Balochistan Sunday morning, disrupting gas supply to the Sui compressor plant from the Pirkoh purification plant. (View full report here)

by Hezi Aris for the Yonkers Tribune WHITE PLAINS, NY – December 17, 2014 –Several members of the Westchester County Board of Legislators (WCBoL) ventured today to the County’s Blue Mountain Reservation in the Town of Cortlandt to see the probable impact area from the expansion project proposed by the Houston, Texas-based Spectra Gas Corporation for its…

by Mike Benard for The Daily Voice Speaking from experience with Spectra Energy, property owners and communities can expect the company (NYSE: SE) will not do what it says it will in terms of transparency and accountability; and the company will develop amnesia when questioned about its actual track record relating to safety and federal fines. (View…

by Elizabeth Ganga for The Journal News Environmental activists, elected officials and regular residents have developed a major opposition movement to fight the Algonquin pipeline project. (View full report here.)

by Elizabth Gange for The Journal News The project to replace more than 15 miles of the Algonquin natural gas pipeline through northern Rockland, Westchester and a corner of Putnam will significantly impact a state park, a county park, several local green spaces, a Boy Scout camp and other recreation facilities. In order to pull out the…

by Nicole Briggs for Yorktown Daily Voice PEEKSKILL, N.Y. – Grassroots groups from along the proposed route for Spectra’s Algonquin Incremental Market pipeline expansion, which cuts through New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, have joined together to host a “Week of Respect and Resistance” with actions from Dec. 13 to Dec. 19 in opposition to the project. (View…