Officials to Speak Out Again on Algonquin Pipeline

Editor’s Note: The press conference was called by Cortlandt town officials. The organizers were identified incorrectly in the original version of this report. Patch regrets the error.

Cortlandt Town Supervisor Linda Puglisi and other elected officials will be speaking out March 20 in opposition to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s decision to issue a conditional Certificate for Spectra’s AIM project.

Spectra Energy plans to expand its natural gas pipeline that runs through Rockland, Westchester and Putnam counties on its way to New England and international markets.

Engineer Paul Blanch, who has been a consultant and a critic of the nuclear industry for many years, will talk about the potential he sees for a region-wide catastrophe if a rupture of the massive 42-inch gas pipeline were to occur just a few hundred feet from vital structures at Indian Point.

The event at Cortlandt Town Hall starts at 2:30 p.m.

Pipeline opponents Courtney Williams and Susan Van Dolsen talked about the pipeline and the opposition on the Connect the Dots radio show that was broadcast yesterday. Listen here:

http://prn.fm/connect-the-dots-a-gas-pipeline-close-to-a-nuclear-power-reactor-what-could-go-wrong-03-17-15/

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• Algonquin Pipeline Foes Stage ‘Die-in’ Protest at Company’s Info Session
• Feds Approve Spectra’s AIM Project
• FERC Says Environmental Impacts of Pipeline Expansion Minimal
• Puglisi Asks DEC to Say No to the Algonquin Pipeline
• Is Algonquin Expansion Part of System Upgrade: FERC