“The air was thick at certain times especially in the summer, and I could see the fumes coming out like fire and the smell was pungent,” says 68-year-old Elisha Fye. “As a kid, seeing the smokestacks on the plants, I thought it was something normal.”
Local environmental activists and elected leaders held a rally on the banks of Newtown Creek across from the Greenpoint Energy Center to call on Gov. Kathy Hochul to reject the facility’s permit application for an expansion, January 27th, 2022Local environmental activists and elected leaders held a rally on the banks of Newtown Creek across from the Greenpoint Energy Center to call on Gov.
Thursday morning, local environmental groups sent a petition with 11,800 names to the Hochul, a regional DEC office and its commissioner, Basil Seggos, to vote no on the decision expected February 7th. They were joined by U.S. Congresswomen Nydia Velazquez and Carolyn Maloney along with New York City Councilmembers Sandy Nurse and Lincoln Restler.
National Grid plans to add two liquid natural gas vaporizers to the facility’s existing collection of six. LNG vaporizers are essentially big boilers that transform liquid fossil fuels, mostly methane, into a gas that can be delivered to homes for heat and cooking. As such, they are used only during peak demand such as in winter for heating homes.
“Prove it,” said Anthony Ingraffea, the civil engineering professor at Cornell University who prepared an environmental assessment on behalf ofA view of the National Grid’s Greenpoint Energy Center across the Newtown Creek, a superfund site. The facility wants to add two new natural gas vaporizers, January 27th, 2021A view of the National Grid’s Greenpoint Energy Center across the Newtown Creek, a superfund site.
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