News12 Westchester PEEKSKILL – Environmental groups and families protested outside Sen. Charles Schumer’s office in Peekskill Monday over what they say is a dangerous pipeline project. The protesters are asking New York’s senior senator to denounce the AIM project, a natural gas pipeline adjacent to Indian Point. The new section of the Spectra Energy pipeline…
FiOS1 Lower Hudson Valley Residents say they are concerned about pollution and the safety of the proposed pipeline (View full report)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Susan Van Dolsen No Pipeline Expansion (NOPE) 914-525-8886 svandolsen@gmail.com Approval of Natural Gas Export Terminal Debunks FERC’s Claim That Massive Pipeline Buildout Not For Export (May 29, 2015) A grassroots coalition, No Pipeline Expansion (NOPE), stated today that the Department of Energy’s (DOE) approval of Pieridae’s Goldboro liquefied…
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…
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…
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…
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 LANNING TALIAFERRO (Patch Staff) Local residents joined advocates and officials from across New York in Albany yesterday to urge state officials to employ a consistent policy evaluating health impacts of the full lifecycle process of shale gas development. Amid growing scientific evidence of potential risks, they requested that Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the departments of Environmental…
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