Today I woke to the cries of Native American protectors across the prairies as they were brutalized, terrorized, and assaulted by attack dogs in North Dakota as construction crews destroyed burial grounds and other sacred sites. This was the response to their effort to protect clean water ecosystems, which have an inherent right to survive but also sustain us by providing clean water for our consumption.
This post is in honor of their effort and sacrifice.
Although Massachusetts is not facing a fracked oil pipeline expansion, we are facing fracked gas pipeline expansions. Fracked gas is not clean, safe, or a bridge fuel for fighting climate change. You can access other entries on this blog and a few of the files I’ve posted here, all of which support the assertion that the oil and gas industry is harming, if not destroying, our communities – whether in the Dakotas or New England.
This post content primarily includes my
Atlantic Bridge Gas contaminant comments
<click the link above to download>
These comments were submitted to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. I have little confidence that FERC will respond favorably to my comments, but the docket serves as a distribution list of sorts to concerned individuals, regulatory agencies, and environmental organizations.
The one line summary is that fracked gas coming to our state likely contains toxic and carcinogenic materials such as radioactive lead, mercury, cadmium, and PCBs and many of these are currently and would be released by compressor stations such as the proposed station in Weymouth.
Other than well-informed residents, it is unclear who else cares about this sort of information. I hope you will take a few minutes to download and read my comments.
Up in Smoke 