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 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 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…
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…
by Ellen Cantarow for Huffington Post A very large gas pipeline will soon skirt the Indian Point Energy Center (IPEC), an aging nuclear power plant that stands in the town of Cortlandt in Westchester County, New York, 30 miles north of Manhattan. The federal agencies that have permitted the project have bowed to two corporations…
by AllGov.com Two New York pipelines, one near a nuclear plant, the other terminating in the basement of a museum, have caused concern about the possibility of an accident. Thirty miles north of Manhattan, a proposed gas pipeline would run near the Indian Point Energy Center (IPEC), a nuclear power plant in operation since 1973. If that…
By Ellen Cantarow, Truthout A very large gas pipeline will soon skirt the Indian Point Energy Center (IPEC), an aging nuclear power plant that stands in the town of Cortlandt in Westchester County, New York, 30 miles north of Manhattan. The federal agencies that have permitted the project have bowed to two corporations – the…
by Ernie Garcia for The Journal News New York’s two senators have joined the chorus calling on a federal agency to retract its approval of the Algonquin pipeline expansion. Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, along with Rep. Nita Lowey, signed a joint letter Friday asking the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to rescind its March…
by Jim Barg for The Daily Voice CORTLANDT, N.Y. — A coalition of groups in Westchester, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island have joined forces to try to stop expansion of Spectra Energy’s Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) The coalition includes Better Future Project and West Roxbury Saves Energy (WRSE), both based in Massachusetts; Capitalism v. the…
Stop the Algonquin Pipeline Expansion (SAPE) 