Governor Cuomo banned fracking in New York in 2014, but the state is expanding its use of fracked gas for heating and energy, building pipelines, compressor stations and power plants like CPV all over the state.
Built on Bribes: The Fracked Gas Power Plant at the Center of the Percoco Trial
Last week, New Yorkers from Orange County fighting to stop the massive CPV fracked gas power plant had a tough decision to make.
Should they go to the court hearing that could decide the fate of the pipeline that will deliver fracked gas to the plant?
Or should they go to the corruption trial of Joseph Percoco, a former top aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo, who is accused of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from Competitive Power Ventures, the company building the plant in Waywayanda, New York.
Millennium Tries to Silence Local Dad Over CPV Fracked Gas Power Plant Through SLAPP Suit
For over a year, through the cold and heat, the citizens of Orange County have held weekly pickets outside the construction site of a massive fracked gas power plant being built in their community.
The CPV fracked gas power plant will emit 700 tons of known carcinogens, neurotoxins and endocrine disruptors each year and will increase demand for fracking in neighboring Pennsylvania.
Scott Martens, a father of two young children from Middletown, saw folks protesting outside the construction site, stopped by and has been involved in the fight to stop CPV ever since.
Accepting Sponsorship = Endorsement: How a Handful of Environmental Activists Pushed WNYC to Have a Fiscal Reckoning and Drop Williams Company and Pipelines as a Sponsor
Accepting Sponsorship = Endorsement
“There is nothing we will advertise that does not align with our principles….We have actively rejected advertising and sponsorship in the past because when it doesn’t feel right, it’s just not right.” And then some minutes later came the statement that tipped me over the edge from public observer to enraged questioner - “As long as support falls under our criteria, we aim to be balanced and not demonstrate being skewed an a topic.
After Dozens of Spills, Construction Halted on Mariner East 2 Pipeline
Last week the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) temporarily halted construction on the controversial Mariner East 2 pipeline which will transport fracked gas liquids over 300 miles across the state of Pennsylvania.
NY Infrastructure Report
Spectra Energy is proceeding with their illegally segmented “Algonquin” Pipeline expansion project that stretches from Stony Point, NY passing Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant and through Massachusetts and beyond for Canadian export of fracked gas.
Is Governor Cuomo a fracking hypocrite?
Right now, as you read this, there’s an incredibly dangerous transition happening in the United States. And it has nothing to do with Donald Trump.
Well, it didn’t start with him at least.
In a disastrous move for the climate, instead of transitioning directly from coal-fired power plants as the main source of energy generation to 100% renewable energy, the United State is building a fracked gas ‘bridge’. This ‘bridge’ requires millions of fracked wells and building thousands of miles of pipelines and some 300+ fracked gas power plants.
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