Where: Jersey City, NJ USA
Topic: Proposed 30 inch, high-pressure Natural-Gas pipeline, suggested routing through center of JC, supplying NYC
Parties: FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission); Spectra Energy (TX USA)
Map (to right): JC Green-map with proposed pipeline route in black. Note route through residential sections of JC with enormous number of Green-Assets and Icons in close proximity.
Another record breaking hot summer (is there a trend?) and ~300 residents assembled last night in an auditorium (Ferris High School) with a broken AC for over 4 hours. Why? To voice opinions about a proposed 30 in natural gas pipeline, to run through the heart of JC, for the benefit of NYC, and presumably Spectra’s bottom-line. Sitting in that high-school auditorium, not 30 feet from the proposed pipeline route (with a supposed blast-zone of 600 feet), I sat back and studied the accidentally-released helium-balloons still hugging the ceiling from the graduation celebration where presumably upwards of 1000 pupils and their families must have recently congregated. Helium, Natural Gas, a lack of AC - there was a lot of hot air.read more »