Nuclear Regulatory Commission Withheld and Misrepresented Critical Information Used to Evaluate and Approve the Siting of the Spectra AIM Pipeline Alongside Indian Point

On Wednesday, July 15, 2015 at 2:30 p.m. at the Hendrick Hudson Library in Montrose, NY, at a special presentation to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Petition Review Board, nuclear expert Paul Blanch revealed that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission withheld and misrepresented critical information used to evaluate and approve the siting of the Spectra Algonquin…

Groups protest pipeline project near Indian Point

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…

Peekskill residents protest expansion of Algonquin Pipeline

FiOS1 Lower Hudson Valley Residents say they are concerned about pollution and the safety of the proposed pipeline (View full report)

Indian Point Opponents, Supporters Speak–and Sing–at NRC Safety Hearing

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…

Giant Gas Pipeline Next to Nuclear Power Plant Could Cause a New York ‘Fukishima,’ Say Experts

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…

400 turn out for NRC’s upbeat Indian Point report

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…

Critical NRC meeting in Tarrytown Wednesday, May 20, 2015, 7 pm

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…

Let’s not build a gas pipeline near a nuclear reactor

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…

Indian Point Fire Raises Huge Concerns Over Siting of Spectra Pipeline

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…

Reisman: Gas pipeline. Indian Point. Why tempt fate?

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…

Did We Almost Lose New York?

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…

Transformer Fire at Indian Point Raises More Questions About AIM Pipeline Siting

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…

Algonquin Pipeline Foes Lobby in Albany

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…

Giant Gas Pipeline to Flank NY Nuclear Plant

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…

Is it Really a Good Idea to put one Gas Pipeline near an Old Nuclear Power Plant and another Next to a Major Art Museum?

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…