A pipeline’s being expanded 400ft from my home – wouldn’t you be worried?

by Courtney M. Williams for The Guardian, Opinion The Spectra Energy pipeline expansion has been given the go-ahead, but inadequate safeguards make me scared for my children’s health. The Keystone XL pipeline was vetoed by President Obama last year as being antithetical to the nation’s climate goals. Yet fights against pipelines continue to rage across the country…

How the AIM Pipeline Expansion Will Affect New York

Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC Spectra Energy’s proposed AIM (Algonquin Incremental Market) pipeline expansion poses significant environmental, health and safety risks to residents in New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Julia Walsh, Campaign Director for Frack Action, and Courtney Williams, a molecular biologist directly affected by the pipeline, talk about the expansion, and Spectra’s plan to install a massive high pressure pipeline 1500 feet…

“Gasland” filmmaker to screen new doc at Manhattanville Monday

by Kevin Phelan for The Journal News PURCHASE – Josh Fox, the Academy Award-nominated documentarian behind the “Gasland” films, will be at Manhattanville College Monday for a free screening of his new film, “How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can’t Change,” and to lead a discussion. “We’ll be screening…

Stop the Algonquin Pipeline

by Linda Perry (WBAI News) Governor Cuomo asked the Federal Government to Stop the Algonquin Pipeline near Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant. He ordered an immediate independent safety analysis due to the proximity to the troubled Indian Point Nuclear Power Plants in Buchanan, New York. Activists are rejoicing over this. Courtney Williams, a spokesperson for ResistAIM said “We strongly support…

Cuomo to feds: Stop Algonquin pipeline for more safety review

By Casey Seiler, Capitol bureau chief Albany Times Union Gov. Andrew Cuomo, never a fan of the Indian Point Nuclear Facility, has commanded four state agencies — the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services, Public Service Commission, Department of Environmental Conservation, and the Department of Health — to issue a letter calling on the Federal…

Cuomo: Halt Algonquin pipeline; gov. cites Indian Point

by Joseph Spector for LoHud ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday urged the federal government to halt construction of the Algonquin natural gas pipeline, citing the potential dangers of its proximity to the Indian Point nuclear plant. In a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Cuomo administration urged the agency to postpone…

Cops: 11 arrested in Algonquin pipeline protest

by Matt Spillane for LoHud CORTLANDT – Protesters arrived with signs in hand and left in handcuffs Monday after blocking the entrance to the Algonquin pipeline construction site, police said. Eleven people were arrested in Verplanck, where they blocked two entrances to Spectra Energy’s work areas for the Algonquin natural gas pipeline project, state police…

Plan to Expand a Pipeline at Indian Point Raises Concern

by Lisa W. Fodoraro BUCHANAN, N.Y. — Every so often, catastrophes prompt fresh worries about the Indian Point nuclear power plant, whose twin domes loom over the Hudson River about 45 miles north of Midtown Manhattan. In 2001, the terror attacks on Sept. 11 spurred calls to shut down the two reactors here, amid concern of a…

Fracking Opponents Shift Their Focus to Gas Pipelines

by Karen Dewitt for WXXI Hydrofracking has been banned in New York State for nearly a year now,  but opponents of the natural gas extraction process have other concerns, including new pipelines. Opponents of hydrofracking are now focusing on gas pipelines that conduct fracked gas from other states underneath New York. 30,000 people signed petitions…

Pipeline foes urge Albany to halt the Algonquin project

by Akikio Matsuda for LoHud Opponents of the Algonquin natural gas pipeline expansion delivered 30,000 petition signatures to Albany on Tuesday, calling for Gov. Andrew Cuomo to halt the project. Petitioners also asked the state to conduct an independent risk assessment of potential hazards from the natural gas pipeline that runs close to nuclear reactors at Indian Point in Buchanan. (View full report here)