Fracked gas debt chart5/8/2023 ![]() The approval of the fifth phase of the pipeline would allow it to reach the LNG facility at Greenpoint. After Governor Cuomo issued an executive order to halt all non-essential work, neighbors reported the company was not mandating personal protective equipment (PPE) nor social distancing for its workers.Īdditionally, funding to build north of Montrose Avenue in Bushwick through to Greenpoint-neighborhoods in northeastern Brooklyn on the border with Queens that make up the fifth phase of the pipeline construction-is pending a decision by the Public Service Commission. However, public pressure and concern about COVID-19 safety measures forced them to stop construction on March 27, 2020. National Grid is currently constructing Phase 4 of the pipeline. Contribute carbon monoxide and methane to the atmosphere, thereby accelerating climate change and its impacts on coastal metropolises like New York City.Become a stranded asset leaving residents to foot the bill for the pipeline as city and state climate laws are implemented.Opponents of this pipeline project also raise objections that the pipeline will: 3 Emergency Medical Services (EMS) stations.Within the evacuation zone, using federal data, FracTracker determined that there are also:.Concerns include air quality impacts from fugitive methane that could especially impact those with asthma, and functional logistics around safe evacuation in the event of a leak or explosion. Threaten the health and safety of nearly 153,000 people living in the evacuation zone.There is widespread community opposition to this pipeline, LNG expansion, and trucking proposal because it will: View map fullscreen | How FracTracker maps work According to FracTracker, there were 614 reported pipeline incidents in the United States in 2019 alone, resulting in the death of 10 people, injuries to another 35, and about $259 million in damages. FracTracker Alliance created the interactive map, below, using 2010 census data to show population density in the neighborhoods within this blast zone. On average, a 350-psi gas pipeline has an evacuation radius of approximately 1275 feet. Pipelines also present risks of catching fire and exploding. Impacts on the community, resistance to the pipeline Currently, this sort of activity is illegal due to high risk of fires and explosions. $31.5 million over the next 4 years to add “portable LNG capabilities at the Greenpoint site that will allow LNG delivered via truck to on-system injection points.” National Grid is currently seeking a variance from New York City for permission to bring LNG trucks onto city property.$54 million to add two new vaporizers to the Greenpoint LNG facility.$23 million to replace two old vaporizers at National Grid’s Greenpoint LNG facility.Pipeline construction would continue north into East Williamsburg and Greenpoint (other sections of Brooklyn) A charge of $185 million to rate-payers in order to finish the current pipeline phase under construction in Bushwick. ![]() National Grid is asking the New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) to approve: National Grid Depot is located on the western bank of Newtown Creek. The Depot expansion will also facilitate trucking transport of gas to and from North Brooklyn to destinations in Long Island and Massachusetts.įor an industry explanation on how vaporizers work, click here. ![]() National Grid plans to expand liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage and vaporizer operations at the Depot. National Grid euphemistically named the 350-psi pipeline the “The Metropolitan Reliability Pipeline Project.” Gas moving through this pipeline is destined for a National Grid Depot on Newtown Creek, which divides Brooklyn from the borough of Queens. The energy company, National Grid, is proposing to raise New Yorkers’ monthly bills in order to complete a new, 30-inch high-pressure fracked gas transmission pipeline through Brooklyn, New York. New Yorkers are directly impacted by these problematic supply chains. ![]() By Kim Fraczek (Sane Energy Project), with input and mapping by Karen Edelstein (FracTracker Alliance)ĭespite overwhelming concern about the impacts of fossil fuels on climate chaos, pipeline projects are springing up all over the country in an effort find markets for the surplus of fracked gas extracted from the Marcellus region in Pennsylvania. ![]()
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