Groups Aim to Stop Gas Pipeline over Fears of Indian Point – September 30, 2016 http://www.theexaminernews.com/groups-aim-to-stop-gas-pipeline-over-fears-of-indian-point/
by Dave Lucas for WAMC Two pipeline projects that would have crossed the northeast have been scrubbed: activists are now calling for a third pipeline to be stopped. Politicians and activists have stepped up their efforts to halt Spectra energy’s proposed AIM pipeline that would be routed through the lower Hudson Valley. (View full report…
by Akiko Matsuda for LoHud FERC has denied an earlier request by the governor to stop the work. (Photo: Photo courtesy of Erik McGregor) State lawmakers sent a letter Friday to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, requesting on Earth Day that the agency stop the controversial Algonquin natural gas pipeline expansion project until an independent safety risk analysis is completed.…
By Alison Rose Levy and Ellen Cantarow for The Nation The construction of a gas pipeline within 1500 feet of Indian Point’s nuclear reactors could spell disaster for New York. (View full report)
by Eilis O’Neill for NPR NPR National News coverage of the AIM Pipeline and yesterday’s rally. Coverage starts at 1:20. http://13523.mc.tritondigital.com/NPR_500005/media-session/ef3544f1-16b7-445e-8145-1147f446ff8f/anon.npr-mp3/npr/newscasts/2016/04/03/newscast050627.mp3?siteplayer=true&dl=1 NPR National News coverage of yesterday’s Rally. Coverage starts at 0:42. http://208.92.55.133/NPR_500005/media-session/b06358d9-d9e4-498e-b0c3-f68935a59514/anon.npr-mp3/npr/newscasts/2016/04/03/newscast230627.mp3?siteplayer=true&dl=1
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…
by Sam Thielman for The Guardian Planned gas pipeline alongside Indian Point nuclear plant stirs meltdown fears. Across a narrow swath cut by bulldozers and chainsaws through the woods of Westchester County, New York, triangular yellow flags are clotheslined between pairs of trees. The flags trace the eventual path of the gas pipeline that the energy…
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…
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…
By Katie Herzog for Grist What’s scarier than an aging nuclear power plant? An aging nuclear power plant next to a natural gas pipeline. That could be the new reality for the Indian Point Energy Center, a nuclear power station located in Westchester County, just 45 miles north of Manhattan. A proposed expansion of a natural gas pipeline across the power…
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…
by Chris Hedges for truthdig MONTROSE, N.Y.—It was 6:30 in the morning and George Packard, dressed in a dark suit, a purple clerical bib and a clerical collar, was at church. Or, rather, at what has become church for the retired Episcopal bishop, activist and highly decorated Vietnam War veteran. Packard stood with 20 other protesters…
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…
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)
Capital Tonight Staff, YNN More than 30,000 people have signed a petition calling for a halt on construction of a gas pipeline near the Indian Point nuclear power plant. They say the original risk assessment was improperly done, and a new one is needed before the project goes forward. Tuesday, activists delivered the petition to…
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