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…
by Allison Dunne for WAMC Northeast Public Radio New York’s two U.S. senators and a Hudson Valley congresswoman have penned a letter to a federal agency, asking for a rehearing concerning a pipeline expansion project. Local elected officials have been filing similar letters. (View full report here)
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By TIM FAULKNER/ecoRI News staff Rhode Island is playing a part in a recent legal challenge to a $1 billion natural-gas pipeline expansion that would run through southern New England. Fossil Free RI is one of nine anti-pipeline groups, two municipalities and several politicians to file formal requests for a court hearing to vacate the…
by Ernie Garcia for The Journal News A group of activists and elected officials are asking a federal regulator to reconsider its approval of the Algonquin pipeline expansion. In multiple petitions filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Thursday the applicants argued that FERC’s March 3 approval of a natural gas pipeline expansion running through…
By LANNING TALIAFERRO (Patch Staff) Individuals, grassroots groups and towns from New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts have formed a coalition to file a Request for Rehearing in response to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s approval of the first phase of Spectra Energy’s expansion program. (View full report here)
MEDIA RELEASE March 20, 2015 Despite serious safety and security issues, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued approval for Spectra Energy’s Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) Project on March 3, 2015. Spectra’s project includes the installation of a massive 42-inch diameter high-pressure pipeline 105 feet from vital structures at the Indian Point nuclear facility, in…
A discussion of the risks of siting a new segment of Spectra’s Algonquin pipeline adjacent to Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant. SAPE co-founder Susan VanDolsen discusses the issue with Connect the Dots host Alison Rose Levy. This situation epitomizes the problems with our current energy infrastructure oversight. Federal agencies are shirking their responsibilities and allowing…
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