Fw: Rockaway Pipeline at the MoMA PS1 VW Dome2, this Sunday 11am-1pm, FREE

[dave...@juno.com]

Come out to the Rockaways on a beautiful spring day and join us at the Dome to join in a conversation about the Rockaway Lateral Pipeline - what it means to a part of NYC still recovering from the devastation of a climate change storm, and how we can still do something about it.

We're offering this to the residents of the Rockaways but also to anyone who wishes to be a part of this larger effort to combine our forces, to connect ourselves the way the pipelines are connecting to crisscross our country, but with our hearts and strength and passion.

MoMA PS1 VW Dome 2

Sunday, May 5, 11am-1pm

The MoMA PS1 VW Dome2 is on Beach 94th Street at the boardwalk end; take the 2/5 train to Brooklyn College (Nostrand and Flatbush), then from in front of Target take the Q35 from beginning to the end (Beach 116th Street), a nice ride. Then walk or take the Q22 down Rockaway Beach Boulevard to Beach 94th. Walk a short block toward the ocean.

(by the way, Rockaway Taco/Veggie Island should be open by then - they're on Rockaway Beach Boulevard and Beach 96th.)

We'll talk about these things and more:

- What does methane leakage have to do with heating the planet and churning the oceans into such fury that 12 feet of water slammed into people's homes and fires broke out?

- What is the wisdom is of placing a 900+ pound-per-square-inch high- pressure pipeline through a very popular national park, in a peninsula with only one hospital (located over 100 blocks away), under a bridge, through a wildlife preserve, and in some places laying it only 3 feet beneath the sand?

- Is this gas indeed intended for the people of the Rockaways or is it meant for export across the sea?

- What has happened to people in other places where gas pipelines were laid?

- What are the special characteristics of the Rockaways - the people, the terrain, the natural resources, such as abundant wind, water, sun?

- What is the potential for renewable energy in the area?

- What can we do now?