Fwd: Urgent Alert: Call Gov Cuomo - NYS made a huge mistake by issuing permits for dangerous AIM and Atlantic Bridge pipelines next to Indian Point

[Eric Broadbent]

FYI

From our sisters and brothers in NY opposing the fracked gas that will ultimately come through MA 

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From: Ellen Weininger <eewgra...@gmail.com>
Date: July 6, 2017 at 1:14:42 PM EDT
To: undisclosed-recipients: ;
Subject: Urgent Alert: Call Gov Cuomo - NYS made a huge mistake by issuing permits for dangerous AIM and Atlantic Bridge pipelines next to Indian Point

     URGENT ACTION ALERT                     

CALL GOVERNOR CUOMO DAILY: 518-474-8390

Tell Governor Cuomo: Gas pipelines and power plants do not belong at or near the Indian Point nuclear plant site. Closing Indian Point does not solve the radioactive threat to 20 million New Yorkers who live and work within 50 miles of the plant. A gas pipeline explosion adjacent to 45 years of highly radioactive nuclear waste permanently stored on site could make this region uninhabitable for millennia. We strongly urge you to exercise the power of your office to ensure that independent pipeline safety, nuclear and disaster preparedness experts are fully engaged in the plant's decommissioning plans and that appropriate steps are taken to halt the unprecedented location of gas infrastructure this close to the Indian Point facility. 

 

GIANT HIGH PRESSURE GAS PIPELINES 

AT INDIAN POINT​

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WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?

 

New York State made a huge mistake by issuing the permits for the AIM and Atlantic Bridge pipelines.  Governor Cuomo must listen to independent safety experts’ warnings about the permanent disastrous risks to 20 million New Yorkers and the U.S. economy posed by the giant Spectra AIM gas pipeline, the first phase of the impermissibly segmented Algonquin pipeline expansion, which was constructed only 105 feet from critical safety infrastructure at the Indian Point nuclear plant in northern Westchester located next to two major earthquake fault lines. Even with the closure of Indian Point, a multi-year decommissioning process, the potential explosion of high pressure gas transmission pipelines intensifies the clear and present dangers of the more than 45 years of vulnerable and highly radioactive spent fuel permanently stored there. As if that dangerous scenario were not reckless enough, proposals for the construction of a gas power plant at that location have been reported which would escalate the risks and exacerbate hazardous air pollution already prevalent in the region.  For more background, please visit www.sape2016.org 

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