National Grid Withdraws Albany Loop Pipeline Proposal

[Robert Connors]

The Albany Loop Pipeline Proposal is Dead (for now)   In February, 2019, Stop NY Fracked Gas Pipeline learned about National Grid's proposal to build a new pipeline in the Albany area. We found out what we could about their proposal. We attended  public hearings conducted by the Public Service Commission (PSC) on the proposal, and met with local politicians and state legislators from the Albany area to garner their opposition to the pipeline. Many of them wrote resolutions against the pipeline. We generated hundreds of public comments to the PSC through its webpage. We spoke before the PSC.  We formally opposed the application to build the pipeline through formal filings before the PSC. We made presentations to the community. We visited neighbors of the proposed pipeline and handed out flyers about the proposal. Then when National Grid began their next rate case we participated in the negotiations in order to argue against the Albany Loop Pipeline ( E37). We argued that this pipeline was unneeded, environmentally dangerous and contrary to the NYS Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA). The end results of all that work, is that the Albany Loop Pipeline is dead (for now). Below is an excerpt from the proposal that came out of the rate case. All of this proves that environmental activism does create results! "The Joint Proposal provides that Niagara Mohawk will withdraw its pending Article VII petition for a Certificate of Environmental Compatibility and Public Need for the Albany Loop Project. Under the Joint Proposal, the Company will not refile such a petition during the terms of the rate plan “except for the limited circumstance where the Company determines the project is necessary to address exigent operating conditions that would impact safe and reliable service to the Company’s existing customers.” If the Company refiles an Article VII petition for the Albany Loop Project, it must include a detailed engineering assessment and other support for the asserted exigent operating conditions that allow it to refile the petition during the terms of the rate plan..." Click here for the full decision on the Albany Loop.

 Best regards,

 Becky Meier

 Robert Connors

 Stop NY Fracked Gas Pipeline

 Community Advocates for a Sustainable Environment

 518-781-4686

[Margaret Stoner]

BRAVO to Robert, Becky and all.  Great depth and breadth work!  Thank you!

Margaret Stoner

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