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 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)
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)
Carole Griffiths Community View for The Journal News Blue Mountain Reservation is a 1,538-acre county-run park in the northwest section of Westchester County. It features miles of trails and offers challenging hikes to the tops of two large peaks, Mt. Spitzenberg and Blue Mountain. The park is used heavily by the public. There is also…
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…
Stop the Algonquin Pipeline Expansion (SAPE) 