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)
New12 Westchester BUCHANAN – There’s a last ditch effort being waged to prevent a controversial gas pipeline project from going ahead in the Hudson Valley. Several Hudson Valley legislators and residents are asking the EPA to reconsider work permits granted to Spectra Energy. At a rally in Buchanan yesterday, the group claimed the plan is…
by Jon Campbell for Politics on the Hudson Senate Democrat Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins took to the radio Monday to air her concerns about the Algonquin Pipeline expansion project. (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 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…
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