Hearing Tonight in Yorktown on 2nd Pipeline Expansion Project

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will hold a public meeting to discuss the Atlantic Bridge Project—the second of Spectra’s planned pipeline expansions—tonight in Yorktown.

Atlantic Bridge will consist of work expanding more pieces of Spectra’s pipeline through Rockland, Westchester and Putnam counties. The first phase of the expansion, the AIM Project, has already been approved by FERC.

• Removal and replacement of approximately 10.9 miles of existing 26-inch diameter mainline pipeline with new 42-inch diameter pipeline in Rockland, Westchester and Putman Counties in New York, and Fairfield County in Connecticut;compressor stations located in New Haven County and Windham County, Connecticut;
• Construction of a new permanent access road, including a permanent bridge, to an existing metering and regulating (“M&R”) station in Rockland County, New York
• Work at eight (8) M&R station sites in New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.

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Opponents of the pipeline expansion have filed requests that FERC reconsider its approval of the AIM project, for which it has already given Spectra the go-ahead to construct staging areas in Pomona and Montrose.

FERC’s Public Scoping Meeting in New York for the Atlantic Bridge Project:

WHEN: Monday, May 11, 2015 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.

WHERE: Yorktown Community and Cultural Center, 1974 Commerce Street Yorktown Heights, NY 10598

Speaker sign-up begins at 5:30 p.m. There may be a time limit of three minutes to present comments.