Sentences with phrase «new fracked gas pipeline»
If the fossil fuel industry gets its way, there will be at least four major new fracked gas pipeline projects criss - crossing the Blue Ridge and Appalachian regions of Virginia and West Virginia — endangering our forests and farmlands, the communities living along their routes, and taking us backward in our fight to stop climate change.
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In the first federal effort to address serious air pollution associated with fracking, the EPA issued new air quality standards that require oil and gas companies to capture toxic and climate - altering gases from wells, storage sites and pipelines.
New York City: The Illuminators projected a protest message to Governor Cuomo upon the Harvard Club in Manhattan on Thursday night during his fundraising event there, on behalf of frontline communities impacted by a growing number of fracked - gas infrastructure projects in NY such as pipelines and power plants, (Pictures attached).
After winning a fracking ban, one of the most significant strikes against fossil fuel usage in the nation, New York's environmental groups are eager to score another victory such as a rejection of proposed natural gas pipelines by the state Department of Environmental Conservation.
It is time to not only ban fracking, but halt new investments in fossil fuels and related infrastructure, including pipelines, gas - fired power plants, fracking waste dumps, fossil fuel storage depots in the salt caverns by Seneca Lake, LNG exports at Port Ambrose, crude oil «bomb trains,» and a tar sands oil heater at the Port of Albany.
Opponents of fracking are now focusing on gas pipelines that conduct fracked gas from other states underneath New York.
Julia Walsh, with Frack Action, says she hopes that the governor will now act to stop the expansion or building of new gas pipelines in Westchester County, near the Indian Point Nuclear power plant, and upstate across Schoharie, Albany and Rensselaer counties.
The proposed pipeline would have transported natural gas from Pennsylvania - which allows fracking - through New York State - which has banned fracking.
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In an interview, Hawkins said that activists still face many challenges, from fighting the inevitable industry lawsuits to overturn the ban, to challenging the fracking infrastructure of pipelines across the state and gas storage in the salt caverns near Seneca Lake, to campaigning for a «state plan for a rapid transition to 100 percent green energy to fight climate change, lower electric costs and create millions of new jobs,» he said....
The agency says encouraging more fracking in New York will lead to «growth in the natural gas industry,» with more pipelines and compressor stations that could harm state owned preserves, freshwater wetlands and forests.
Nixon gives Cuomo credit for banning fracking in New York in 2014, saying «it was good first step», but says it doesn't go far enough, because it continues to allow power plants and pipelines that rely on fracked gas.
He said Cuomo's energy plan is centered around imported fracked - gas, which requires new power plants and associated pipelines, compressor stations, and gas storage facilities.
We're opposing projects including the proposed Williams fracked gas pipeline off the Rockaways, the proposed Pilgrim Pipeline between Albany and New Jersey, and the large fracked gas CPV and Cricket Valley power plants.
ACP and Sabal Trail are only two of 15 new pipelines proposed on the East Coast competing to carry fracked gas flowing out of the Marcellus shale in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
A new report from Oil Change International concludes the U.S. is currently building unneeded fracked - gas pipelines as a result of FERC's regulatory failures, including its failure to police self - dealing.
The Constitution Pipeline Project — a joint venture between four oil and gas companies — was proposed to transport fracked natural gas from Susquehanna County in Pennsylvania through Broome, Chenango, Delaware, and Schoharie counties in New York to existing interstate pipelines.
In the past decade, fracking and improved delivery infrastructure such as expanded pipelines and new natural gas export terminals have rapidly increased U.S. energy production, putting downward pressure on global energy prices.
And anything we do that keeps us here — opening up more lands to fracking, or building new pipelines to transport fracked gas — is both foolish and dangerous.
Dirty energy lobbyists, including those of Chevron, could effectively use hypothetical arguments of TTIP illegality to chill government action on both sides of the Atlantic to curtail hydraulic «fracking» for natural gas, deny permits for liquefied natural gas export terminals, close coal - fired power plants, and prohibit new coal mining, oil drilling, and oil / gas pipeline operations, among others.
These problems result from the closure of a number of coal - fired electric plants in recent years in these states and the refusal of local politicians to approve new natural gas pipelines or local fracking for natural gas, in many cases for alleged climate «reasons.»