Thread by @NSVann

A little extra background on this particular pipeline project:

It started in 2013 based on the lie that the Northeast needed more gas. It was called the Algonquin Incremental Markets project - a name that should have tipped off regulators that it was being illegally ‘segmented’

https://twitter.com/ssteingraber1/status/1201684469981351936

The segmentation was done to prevent a full environmental review of the planned project. That review would have required the inclusion of the #Weymouth compressor station. But the company vehemently denied that the gas was destined for Canadian LNG ports & export to Europe.
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Communities at both ends of the pipeline raised strong objections. At the Massachusetts end it was due to the route next to an active quarry.

At the New York end it runs about 100 feet from parts of the Indian Point nuclear plant. Just 25 miles north of New York City.

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A prominent national pipeline expert said that the blast radius could encompass the entire plant - an area with more radioactive material than was released at Chernobyl or Fukushima.

The plant’s evacuation area would include the UN & the financial center of the world

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It would be illegal to build a nuclear plant that close to a gas pipeline. But apparently not the other way around.

So the initial Environmental Impact Statement was approved without meaningful review - much like the current situation in #Weymouth

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Unlike the Weymouth situation, @NYGovCuomo asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to halt the project until a full analysis could be completed.

When his request was denied he commissioned an independent State risk review.

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Fun Fact: I was physically dragged out of a FERC Commissioners meeting for supporting @NYGovCuomo’s reevaluation request!

Now I’m barred from attending FERC’s nominally ‘public’ meetings.

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@NYGovCuomo’s NY State risk review took awhile to complete & the results are so serious they’re classified. All requests for the info - even by senior Federal staff with security clearances - have been denied

But a letter to FERC requests that the gas be turned off in 2021

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That’s when the bulldozers & backhoes could start rolling in to decommission the ailing nuclear plant

Not compatible with a 42-inch high pressure pipeline.

So where would that leave the #WeymouthCompressor?

A stranded asset on a toxic waste field.

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Can @CharlieBakerMA the @MassGovernor start acting like the adult in the room with Enbridge?

They don’t need to throw more money down this rabbit hole.

We WILL defeat them. It would be nice to bankrupt them. But not at the expense of the residents harmed in the meantime.

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It’s all one pipeline. It’s everyone’s problem. From polar bears in Canada to financial markets in Europe. A single mistake by a bulldozer 1.6 miles from my home could change everything

How much is that risk worth in campaign dollars?

@grumpygrumpyowl @nathanpboston @revgle

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I’ve signed the pledge & plan to be physically present in #Weymouth in the future

Hope everyone along this whole pipeline route will do the same. Please read this thread & forward

@SusanVanDolsen @RickieHarvey @ClimateDisobey @SEnRGorg @SAPE2016 @SaneEnergy @agreenewyork
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