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Re: Mayor to the President: Stop the Pipeline
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There is a goof in that article:
The Keystone pipeline was for oil, not natural gas. The USA has way more in the way of natural gas reserves than Canada.
Posted on: 2011/12/8 7:07
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Mayor to the President: Stop the Pipeline
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Jersey City mayor to President Obama: stop the Spectra Energy pipeline
Wednesday, December 07, 2011, 5:00 PM By The Jersey Journal JERSEY CITY ? Mayor Jerramiah Healy has sent a letter to President Obama asking him to stop the proposed Spectra Energy natural-gas pipeline proposed to run through portions of Hudson County. Spectra overcame a significant hurdle last week when the state Department of Environmental Protection approved key permits for the Houston energy giant to build the 16 miles of new pipeline through Bayonne, Jersey City and offshore Hoboken, along with parts of Union County. Jersey City is fighting hard to keep the pipeline from coming to fruition. Healy?s appeal to Obama comes shortly after the president postponed approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry natural gas from Canada to the Gulf Coast. Healy says the Spectra proposal is ?far more insidious? than the Keystone plan, which has been vilified by environmentalists. ?The proposed pipeline would transport an unprecedented, potentially disastrous quantity of gas through the heart of Jersey City ? traversing everything from low-income neighborhoods to high-rise communities to the nationally critical financial district known as ?Wall Street West,?? writes Healy in his letter. ?On behalf of Jersey City, its quarter million residents, its ever-burgeoning development, its thriving, multi-billion dollar economic sectors, and its precious and diverse ecosystems, we ask you to put a stop to the New Jersey-New York Expansion Project?s pipeline plans.? Spectra has said its pipeline would bring needed energy to this portion of the nation, and has stressed that it will be the safest pipeline in North America. Numerous changes have been made to the pipeline proposal to address community concerns, according to Spectra officials. Federal approval of Spectra?s plan is expected to come as early as spring 2012.
Posted on: 2011/12/8 4:23
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