I have just learned via 66 Square Feet that a gas pipeline has been approved by the U.S. House of Representatives. This natural gas pipeline is proposed to run through very sensitive marine and coastal ecosystems in both Queens and Brooklyn, here in New York City. This pipeline has not made it onto the radar for most individuals. My partner, who is on Manhattan's Community Board 2, chairs the committee on Environment, Public Health, and Public Safety and is fighting a similar pipeline that will run from New Jersey through the Hudson River and terminate in Manhattan's West Village. Even that proposed pipeline is not very well known by the general public.
This sort of steamrolling by oil and gas companies, along with their cronies in the legislatures of states and the nation, is all too common. Why was no public hearing held on this pipeline and the neighborhoods they will serve? Where is the environmental impact study? Surely with the pipeline running so close to wildlife reserves and known fragile ecosystems, there is an environmental impact study condemning such pipeline construction, or any other type of construction for that matter. We've got to send the message this election year that we are tired of such sneaky, back door deals that threaten the well-being of our natural environment and of our future health and safety. Vote the cronies out!
Please visit the above link to 66 Square Feet and read the important news with accompanying pictures. I thank Marie for being a valiant guardian and guide of the natural beauty this planet has to show us. Without her posting, I doubt any of us would know about what has happened.
This sort of steamrolling by oil and gas companies, along with their cronies in the legislatures of states and the nation, is all too common. Why was no public hearing held on this pipeline and the neighborhoods they will serve? Where is the environmental impact study? Surely with the pipeline running so close to wildlife reserves and known fragile ecosystems, there is an environmental impact study condemning such pipeline construction, or any other type of construction for that matter. We've got to send the message this election year that we are tired of such sneaky, back door deals that threaten the well-being of our natural environment and of our future health and safety. Vote the cronies out!
Please visit the above link to 66 Square Feet and read the important news with accompanying pictures. I thank Marie for being a valiant guardian and guide of the natural beauty this planet has to show us. Without her posting, I doubt any of us would know about what has happened.
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