Video from gas compressor hearing here

http://images.news10now.com/media/2014/10/8/video/17623521_WEB_georgetown_gas_VSV.mp4

URGENT BULLETIN

RAPID RESPONSE NEEDED To Proposed Gas Compressor Stations & Pipeline

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This Wed 10/8 — Georgetown Town Hall in Madison County NY

BIG TURNOUT MOST HELPFUL

There is a NYAF bulletin from The Sandra at the bottom of this page

What:

FERC hearing Docket CP14-497
Dominion New Market Project
Upgrades to 6 facilities in 6 counties.
Affects 200 miles of pipeline.

WHEN:

THIS Wednesday 10/8 7pm.

WHERE:

Georgetown Town Hall
(Madison County NY)
995 State Route 26,
Georgetown, NY 13072

 

 

 

• Horseheads, Chemung County
• Dryden, Tompkins County
• Georgetown, Madison County
• Utica, Oneida County
• Ft. Plain, Montgomery County
• Schenectady, Schenectady County

 

Here is an APPROXIMATE map to see mileage and approx. facility locations
http://goo.gl/maps/7uhGW

More accurate route:
Yellow Dots are new facilities or upgrades:

Please change your plans
and come to this if you are able.
Please share this on your local listservs.

Share this link on social media:
http://tinyurl.com/DomNewMarketFactSheet

This is a major infrastructure project
which has slipped under the radar. We all missed this…
The Docket only has 59 entries. I heard that Sandra may be getting involved in this. WATCH YOUR INBOX for more info

Here is the application.
Please scan it if you can before Wed:CP14-497 Dominion New Market Project Permithttp://elibrary.ferc.gov/idmws/File_list.asp?document_id=14221998

This is a RED ALERT
Come to the hearing Wednesday in Madison County.

Here is a short Fact-Sheet with a map:
http://nyfriendsofcleanairandwater.blogspot.com/2014/10/fact-sheet-for-dominion-new-market.html (draft, under revision):

Here’s a map where you can see what is related to this:
http://YouAreHereNYMap.org
(Hint: Turn off all layers except Operational Pipelines and Compressor Stations).

There are many things to explore on this map. Zoom in and pan around.

Notice, for example, the Arlington Pipeline is a direct connection between Crestwood Storage Facility @ Seneca Lake
and the Dominion Pipeline!

Here is an Tomplins County connection:

Facility Upgrades at Borger Station
Town of Dryden.

From The Sandra:

We need you in Madison County this Wednesday night, October 8th.

Dominion Transmission Inc. (DTI) — the same folks that brought you Cove Point LNG — is now threatening to dramatically expand the use of fracked gas in New York State and pump hundreds of thousands of tons of greenhouse gas into the air. Dominion calls it their “New Market Project”.

The project would increase by 112,000 Dekatherms per day the capacity of Dominion’s main pipeline, which brings gas north from the fracking fields of Pennsylvania to the Finger Lakes, Syracuse, and points east to Albany. But to push larger and faster volumes of gas through its aging pipeline, Dominion intends to build two big new compressor stations inChemung County (Horseheads) and Madison County (Georgetown), and massively expand a third one inMontgomery County, south of Fort Plain near the Otsego County line. Additional facilities would also be built or modified in Dryden, Utica, and Schenectady.

More gas means more fracking, air and water contamination, risks to public health, and accelerated climate change. And the three proposed compressor stations would be huge, noisy 11,000 horsepower industrial facilities that threaten public safety and continuously pump carbon dioxide, methane, and hazardous chemicals into the atmosphere 24/7. Altogether, they would be responsible for over 200,000 tons of additional greenhouse gas emissions each year.

To make matters worse, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is not even requiring an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to consider impacts. Instead, the project is being reviewed through a much more abbreviated process called an Environmental Assessment (EA). Furthermore, despite the fact that Dominion’s New Market Project impacts much of New York State and spans 200 miles of pipeline, the public has been granted only ONE scoping hearing.

This is an outrage, which is why we need a massive turnout of people to voice objections and concerns to FERC about their process this Wednesday! Here’s where to go:

Dominion New Markets Project Scoping Hearing
Wednesday, October 8th at 7:30 pm
Georgetown Town Hall in Madison County
995 State Route 26, Georgetown, NY 13072

RSVP on Facebook!

This is a “scoping” hearing, which allows for preliminary input on the review process. So in addition to objecting to the project, here are a few things to insist be part of FERC’s scope of review…

* It is an outrage that FERC has scheduled only one scoping hearing for a major project that impacts much of New York and 200 miles of pipeline. Demand that additional scoping hearings be held and that the timeframe for submitting comments be extended.

* FERC should require a full Environmental Impacts Statement (EIS) instead of letting Dominion pursue an expedited Environmental Assessment (EA). The EIS process would require a much more comprehensive analysis of direct, indirect, and cumulative induced impacts, critical to a project of this scale. Demand a full EIS.

* Dominion has named this its “New Market Project” because it wants to create new markets for fracked gas. Therefore, in addition to studying impacts of the project’s components, a comprehensive build-out analysis of cumulative impactsresulting from the increased use of fracked gas should be performed, including the likelihood of future power plants, CNG/LNG facilities, and other types of gas-related infrastructure for distribution. A build-out analysis should also be performed of negative environmental, health, and societal impacts of more drilling and fracking enabled by additional flow capacity in the pipeline. Both upstream impacts (like harm to air, land, and water resources from gas wells) anddownstream impacts (like radon gas in homes) should be studied.

* The Dominion pipeline connects to the Iroquois pipeline, which is planned for reversal so that it will carry gas from the U.S. to Canada. Dominion will therefore be a direct conduit for exporting fracked gas. FERC must analyze this conflict in determining domestic public need. It is also improper segmentation to consider this project without regard to all of the economic and environmental impacts of exporting natural gas, which the project facilitates.

* A comprehensive health impact assessment should be performed to evaluate the potential negative effects, short and long-term, to people living near and at various distances from the proposed compressor station projects.

* Surrounded by homes and farms, the expanded Brookman Corner compressor (south of Fort Plain near Otsego County) would spew over 96,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions into the air every year, nearly twice the emission rate of the other two proposed compressors (each projected to release 54,000 tons per year). This is unacceptable.

* The public must be granted full access to information, including critical energy infrastructure information (CEII) necessary to assess emissions and safety factors.

* The greater risk of pipeline failure due to increased pressure and flow rate must be fully analyzed, especially since parts of Dominion’s pipeline network are up to 50 years old, have corroded with age, or may have been constructed using outdated, inferior welding techniques. Maximum allowable operating pressure must be made public and verified.

* Safety and compliance records of the operator must be disclosed in the record and considered by FERC.

For more information:

FERC Announcement:
http://elibrary.ferc.gov/idmws/common/OpenNat.asp?fileID=13638790

Dominion New Market Project Application: Docket number CP14-497
http://elibrary.ferc.gov/idmws/Doc_Family.asp?document_id=14221998

Link to a video series about the project, compressor stations, and pipelines:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvh7SLHPHPk&list=PLo1TDxDrIRYrjGZwK9pdDJd9n7ohP_78E&index=1

Thanks for all you do!

- Sandra and the NYAF Team Frack Action